Prof. Dr. Jörg M. Fegert is Medical Director of the Department for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Ulm University Medical Center. His main areas of work include neglect, maltreatment, sexual abuse and other adverse childhood experiences. He also deals with early intervention, the relationship between youth welfare and child and adolescent psychiatry and other legal and forensic issues. His department has a focus on e- learning and dissemination, especially in the field of child protection and trauma research.

Jörg Fegert’s working group published the first paper on the potential psychological effects of the pandemic on children and adolescents a few months after the start of the pandemic, based on a review of the effects of local epidemics. In recent years, the central focus of their work has been Covid-19- and measures-associated mental stress.

Jörg Fegert is Past President and Congress President (Ulm 2017) of the German Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy (DGKJP) as well as President (2023–2027) of the European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (ESCAP). From 2017 until 2022 he was Chairman of the Academic Advisory Board on Family Affairs of the German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth of which he is still a member. He also serves as a member of the National Council against Sexual Violence against Children and Adolescents.

He is also board member of the Aktion Psychisch Kranke e.V. (APK), spokesman of the Trauma Research Centre at Ulm University (ZTF, grant-aided by the state of Baden-Württemberg) and member of the German Committee for UNICEF e.V. He is director of the Competence Center Child Abuse and Neglect (Com.Can) of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg, of the Competence Area Mental Health Prevention at the Competence Network Preventive Medicine of the federal state of Baden-Württemberg and of the Competence Center Public Child Mental Health, partner site Ulm.