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Curriculum Vitae – Gunver Sophia Kienle

1964 Born in Tübingen, Germany

Citizenship German

Current position Since 1994 Senior Research Scientist, Institute for Applied Epistemology and Medical Methodology at the University of Witten-Herdecke, Freiburg, Germany Since 2015 Senior Scientist University Centre for Complementary Medicine, University of Freiburg

Education, qualifications 1984 – 1985 Undergraduate studies in physics and mathematics, University of Tübingen, Germany 1986 – 1992 Study of medicine at the universities of Witten/Herdecke and Göttingen, Germany 1994 Medical Degree 1995 Doctoral thesis on misinterpretations of placebo effects; a reanalysis of H.K. Beechers "The Powerful Placebo", University of Berlin, Germany 1998 Program in Clinical Effectiveness, Harvard Medical School & Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard, USA 2014 University of Freiburg, Coordinating/Principle Investigator 2015 - 2016 Mediation (VWA Freiburg, Germany; The Center for Understanding in Conflict, San Francisco, USA)

Previous positions 1992 – 1993 Medical Internship, University of Göttingen, NWKH Sanderbusch, Germany 1993 – 1995 Medical Oncology Residency, Tumor Biology Center, University of Freiburg, Germany 2011 – 2016 Editor, Global Advances in Health and Medicine

Awards 1996 Hevert-Award, German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics

Research areas  Clinical trials and clinical studies on Anthroposophic Medicine  Research on the placebo effects  Anthroposophical Medicine Outcomes Study (AMOS)

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 Development of cognition-based medicine and single-case study designs  Historic review of tumour immunology and its therapeutic implementations  Reviews on tumour biology  Systematic reviews on pre-clinical and clinical research on mistletoe therapy  Health technology assessment reports on efficacy, effectiveness, safety, and costs of Anthroposophic Medicine

Memberships  German Network for Evidence Based Medicine (Deutsches Netzwerk Evidenzbasierte Medizin e.V. DNEbM)

Editor, editorial and scientific boards  Editorial Board: The Permanente Journal  Editorial Board, Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing  International Editorial Board, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine  Commission C at the Federal Institute of Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM), Bonn, Germany

Last update: March 2017