Doerte Seehafer, Health Economist

Biography

• 1993-1995 Training as physiotherapist at the state-approved physiotherapy school in Stade, Germany
• 1995-1996 Year of recognition as physiotherapist at health resorts and research institutes Bad Lippspringe GmbH
• 1996-2003 Employment as physiotherapist in neurosurgery dept. at the University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf
• 2003-2008 Study of Health Sciences at the University of Applied Sciences (HAW) Hamburg, Germany
• 2005 Semester abroad at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto, Canada
• 2008-2009 Employee of the Wissenschaftliches Institut der Techniker Krankenkasse für Nutzen und Effizienz im Gesundheitswesen (equiv. Scientific Institute of the Techniker Health Insurance Fund for Benefits and Efficiency in Health Care)
•  Since March 2012, teaching staff at the Institute for Practical Training (IPW)

Further specialist training

• Bobath (foundations course)
• PNF (foundations and advanced Course)
• Reflective breathing therapy (foundations course, advanced course and therapy course)
• Mobilization of the nervous system (introductory course)
• International Epidemiology Summer School 

Teaching activities

• Since March, 2012 Teaching at IPW

Teaching subjects at the IPW

• PT Neurology
• Bobath
• Classic massage
• Connective tissue massage
• Working scientifically
• Relaxation therapy