Carsten Leue

Dr., Dr.med. (PhD, MD) Carsten Leue is working as a CL psychiatrist at the Maastricht University Hospital (MUMC) since 2003. He finished his dissertation (Dr. med. (i.e., MD)) at the RWTH Aachen, Germany, in 1999 (‘Kontinuierliche veno-venöse Hämofiltration im akuten Nierenversagen: Vergleich von bikarbonathaltigen (SH-35-HEP) und laktathaltigen (SH-04) Substitutionslösungen’), and he publicly defended his PhD-thesis (‘Hyperarousal in the hospital and what to do about it: The Med-Psych-Net - a transitional network approach fostering personalized care in psychosomatic medicine’) in 2017 at Maastricht University. Dr. Leue is part of the somatic comorbidity team (psychosomatics) at the MUMC’s department of Psychiatry, delivering clinical and transitional care. In 2008 he introduced the Medical Psychiatric Network, which is a transitional care approach in order to integrate different collaborative health care solutions, form tertiary to primary care. Consecutively, he is involved in scientific research regarding cost-effectiveness of integrated care in patients with multi-conditional complaints. Part of this work has been awarded by the Dutch Association of Gastroenterology (‘Best Practice Award 2012’) and by the World Institute of Pain (‘WIP Excellence in Pain Practice Award for Comprehensive Multidisciplinary Pain Practice 2013). Regarding management of integrated care solutions, he has been chairman of the MUMC’s Pelvic Care Centre from January 2012 till December 2014. He was board member of the Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Department of the Dutch Psychiatric Association till 2019. Furthermore, he was board member of the European Association of Psychosomatic Medicine (EAPM) form 2013 to 2019, and secretary of the EAPM from 2016 to 2019. In 2019, Dr. Leue organized the last non-virtual annual conference of the EAPM 2019 in Rotterdam before the corona pandemic (‘Integrating psychosomatic care across medical settings and specialties). He is further concerned in the education of medical students and (upcoming) psychiatrists and general practitioners. Field of interest: Consultation Liason Psychiatry and Psychosomatics.