Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
2011
Name Ulf Brettstam
Location Nässjö
Work Consultant Psychiatrist
Born 1952 , Lund, Sweden
Work Child and Youth Psychiatry, Nässjö
Sweden Specialized in General Psychiatry
and Child and Youth Psychiatry
Titel Consultant Psychiatrist
1971-1976 Psychiatric aidee at the Psychiatric
Hospital Vipeholm, Lund (Oligophrenia)
1976-1986 Psychiatric aidee, acting ward manager,
assistant physician, S:t Lars Psychiatric
hospital.
1983-1988 Lund University Faculty of Medicine.
M.D.
1988 Basic and Advanced education in
Hypnosis, Member of the Swedish
Association of Experimental and Clinical
Hypnosis
1998-1990 Doctorate Internship Höglands Hospital
Eksjö.
1990 - Assistant physician, S:t Lars Psychiatric
hospital.
1991 - Resident in Child and Youth Psychiatry at
S:t Lars hospital, Lund
1995 Specialist in Child and Youth Psychiatry
Co-Investigator in project
"Genes,Environment and Maternal
Adjustment", Center for Family Research,
George Washington University, The
Karolinska Institute, Lund University.
( ranked by NIMH as one of the “top
five” projects )
1995 Assist. Consultant Psychiatrist, Clinic of
Child and Youth psychiatry,
Engelholm hospital. Medical Director
of eating disorders.
1996 Assist. Consultant Psychiatrist, Clinic of
Child and Youth psychiatry,
Helsingborg hospital. Director of
the investigative unit for infant psychiatry.
1997 Consultant Psychiatrist, Psychiatric clinic,
Högland hospital, Eksjö.
1999 Managing Director for education of interns
and residents, psychiatric clinic,
Hoegland hospital.
2000 - 2011 Assist. Chief of staff. Appointed expert in
psychiatry by the National Board of Health
and Wellfare, Specialist in General
Psychiatry.
2008 - 2010 Developing course ” Psychiatry and Law”
for residents in psychiatry with IPULS
-Institute for the Professional Development
of Physicians in Sweden
2011 Coordinator of course ”Psychiatry and
Law” at the Psychiatric Clinic,
Högland Hospital Eksjö.
Extracurricular activities
1967 - 1972
Graded in Karate (Shotokam) and Judo (Greenbelt)
Bronze medalist in the Swedish Junior Championship in weightlifting, aspirant for the Olympics in Munich,
Champion in districtchampionships on several occasions,
Schoolchampion in highjump 1971, Lund.
1976
Fourth place in the District Championship in Fencing, rapier, ( First place, Rolf Edling, worldchampion rapier, second place, Orvar Jönsson, Captain of the Swedish fencing team, saber, third place, Lennart Rohlin, Captain of the Swedish fencing team, foil ).
1988 - 1999
Practising Aikido
Award
Studentmanager of the Year in Jönköping regional healthcare