Prof. Dr. med. Indira Tendolkar
Personal details
| Date of Birth | 12th June 1968 |
| Nationality | German of Indian origin |
| Marital Status | Married, 2 children |
Main achievements in the last 5 years
| 04/2018- | Board member of the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior |
| 07/2017- | Associate Editor Human Brain Mapping |
| 09/2016-12/2018 | Elected chair of the Concilium Psychiatricum |
| 10/2015- | Elected member of the VENI committee of the Dutch Research foundation (NWO) |
| 06/2015- | Theme speaker (“Plasticity and memory”) of the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior Track coordinator Master Course Cognitive Neuroscience of the Radboud University Nijmegen |
| 2014-2016 | Elected Member of the plenary visitation committee for the residency programme in psychiatry of the Dutch Associations of Psychiatrists |
| 01/2015-2017 | junior Principle Investigator at the Radboud University Medical Center |
| 01/2015- | Senior Scientist Erwin Hahn Institute for Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Essen Germany |
Education
School
| 1978 - 1987 | Grammar School: St. Hildegardis-Gymnasium, Duisburg, Germany
1987: 'A' Levels: combined grade: 1.6 |
Medical School
| 1987-1993 | University of Aachen, Germany |
| 1993/94 | Compulsory Shadow House Officer Year: Psychiatry, University of Zurich, Switzerland General Surgery, St. Antonius-Hospital Eschweiler, Germany Internal Medicine, St. Antonius-Hospital Eschweiler, Germany |
Medical Degree
| 04/1994 | German state medical examination first class |
Postgraduate Qualification
| 05/1995 | Medical Doctor: University of Aachen, Germany: first class. Title of M.D. thesis: “Role of leukocyte activation in the pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy” (Magna cum laude) |
| 09/1997 | EEG Certificate of the German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology |
| 02/2000 | Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training in Neurology |
| 07/2002 | Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training in Psychiatry and Psychotherapy |
| 06/2006 | German Habilitation degree Habilitation topic: “Neurophysiological correlates of declarative memory deficits in patients with schizophrenia |
| 01/2007 | Certificate of Completion of training in “Interpersonal Psychotherapy” at the RINO in Amsterdam including the permission to work as an independent IPT-psychotherapist |
| 11/2007 | Certificate of Completion of consultancy on “women’s leaderships” at the RINO in Amsterdam |
| 04/2008 | Certificate of Completion of workshop on “problem-solving coaching” at the RINO in Amsterdam |
| 04/2008 | Certificate of GCP exam (re-certification 2013) |
| 06/2012 | Adjunct Professor in Psychiatry and Faculty member, Medical Faculty, University of Essen-Duisburg |
| 10/2012 | Certificate Health Management (one year post-graduate course)-MIBEG Cologne, Germany |
| 10/2014 | Basic Certificate Teaching of the Radboud University Medical Center Theoretical teaching
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| 11/2014 | Certificate RGS (Opleidingsvisitatie) |
| 11/2016-09/2017 | Certificate and completion psychotherapy training EMDR, ongoing supervision by a qualified trainer |
Previous and current employers
| 07/1994-09/1995 | Resident in Clinical Neurophysiology and Neurology Department of Neurology II, University of Magdeburg, Germany |
| Advisor | Prof. H.J. Heinze, M.D. |
| Occupation | General neurology ward, outpatient clinic for epilepsies, dementias and multiple sclerosis
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| 10/1995-10/1996 | Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience Department of Psychology / Wellcome Brain Research Group, University of St Andrews, Great Britain |
| Advisor | Prof. M.D. Rugg, Ph.D |
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| 11/1995–02/1998 | Resident in Clinical Neurophysiology and Neurology Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, University of Magdeburg, Germany |
| Advisor | Prof. H.J. Heinze, M.D. |
| Occupation | General neurology ward, outpatient clinic for epilepsies, dementias and multiple sclerosis
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| 02/1998–11/2003 | Resident and Research Fellow in Psychiatry Department of Psychiatry, University of Cologne, Germany |
| Advisor | Prof. J. Klosterkoetter, M.D. |
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| Since 12/2003 | Staff member in Psychiatry Department of Psychiatry, University of Nijmegen, Netherlands |
| 2003-2011 | Staff member in the acute psychiatry team |
| 2007-2015 | Setup and coordination neuropsychiatric outpatient clinic as well as participation in multidisciplinary day clinics for Parkinson’s disease (Dept. of Neurology) and geriatric patients (Dep. of Geriatrics) |
| 2009-2011 | Interim head of the consultation psychiatry of the UMC St Radboud with the supervision of an interdisciplinary team of 1 psychiatrist in specialization and one general practitioner during specialization, 2 advanced nurse practioner’s and one nurse |
| 2011-2015 | Setup and coordination old age psychiatry outpatient clinic |
| 2015- | Consultation and liaison psychiatry |
| 2017- | Setup euregional network psychooncology and e-health with the departments of oncology in Goch and Venlo |
| 2018- | Private practice psychotherapy in relation to psychooncological topic and stress related mental disorders |
Management experience
| 06/2009-09/2009 | Development of work concept for doctors and nurses and reorganization of the consultation psychiatry to fulfill the needs of the DRG-system |
| 05/2011- | Human Resource Management with respect to residents in psychiatry |
| 10/2013-12/2013 | Work group member of the Dutch Society of Psychiatry and the Dutch health ministery task force on capacity planning psychiatry residency |
| 2011-2015 | Set-up and management Old age psychiatry compartiment at the department of psychiatry both with respect to patient care and education |
| 06/2015-09/2015 | Work group member of the Dutch Society of Psychiatry and the Dutch health ministery task force on quality indicators for residency trainings in Psychiatry |
| 07/2016- | Elected member in the national work group ( led by the Dutch helth authority) that decides on location of residents in psychiatry in the Netherlands |
| 04/2018 | Management theme plasticity and memory and board activities Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior |
| 08/2018- | Management private practice psychotherapy as add-on to specialist work at the Radboud university medical center |
Research activities
description (max one A4) of the research area and the interests
Indira Tendolkar started her research career focusing on the so-called declarative memory system, the neural circuit that enables us to remember consciously past events and facts- a crucial ability in every-day life. To this end, IT has developed novel experimental designs testing neutral and emotional forms of declarative memory using a wide array of electrophysiological and neuroimaging methods. While exploring the fundamental cognitive neuroscience of emotional and non-emotional forms of declarative memory in one line of research, IT has also focused on the causal relationship between a dysfunction of this memory system and the most common psychiatric disorders. In Nijmegen, I. Tendolkar has set up a line of research aiming to identify the brain regions related to the development and maintenance of affective disorders and depression in particular. Initially, IT´s research group focused on structural and functional changes of the declarative memory system early in the course of depression. Next, I. Tendolkar and her group extended their work unraveling the neural underpinnings of chronic and even treatment resistant depression. Her group provided first evidence that the functional activity of brain regions mediating declarative memory is altered both as a function of state or trait early in the course of depression. Moreover, IT has been able to extend ongoing research on the neural correlates of memory bias in depression by showing that remitted patients still show a reduced neural capacity to memorize positive events within the amygdala, a finding that can help optimizing cognitive behavioral therapies of depression and recently has initiated a line of research related to cognitive bias modification and development of possible e-health applications. Using structural and resting state MRI techniques, the research group has focused on chronic depression in particular en for example the effects of ECT. Together with colleagues from the US and Norway IT has founded an international ECT consortium dedicated to unravel the neurobiological mechanisms of action. Over the last years IT has investigated vulnerability for stress-related mental disorders across the life span by conducting several studies related to the neurocognitive impact of childhood adversity on the one hand and the effects of healthy and pathological aging on the other hand. Finally over the last year IT has extended her stress related research in collaboration with researchers from the cancer theme of the Radboudumc to investigate impact of acute stress in hematology oncology and prostate cancer.
grant acquisition:
| 1998 | Travel grant provided by the Federal Research Council of Germany (DFG TE-321/1-1) |
| 1999-2002 | 1 year research grant from the intramural research program “Köln Fortune” to I. Tendolkar for the investigating long term memory deficits in schizophrenia 2-year research grant to I. Tendolkar (DFG TE-321/2-1). Title: "Neurophysio¬logical correlates of long term memory deficits in schizophrenia" 1-year research grant from the intramural research program “Köln Fortune” to I. Tendolkar for the investigating the relationship between antisaccade deficits and visuo spatial working memory deficits in schizophrenia (the sum of these grants equals 1, 5 fte PhD-student for 4 years) |
| 2005-2009 | 4-year research grant from the intramural research program of the University medical Center of the Radboud University Nijmegen to I. Tendolkar for the investigating the neural correlates of memory bias in patients with a depression (equals 1fte PhD-student for 4 years) 4 year collaborational grant with the Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Nijmegen for investigating the neural correlates of mood induction (Prof. Eni Becker principle investigator) (equals 1fte PhD-student for 4 years) |
| 2007-2010 | 100.000 Euro Eli-Lilly grant “Tackling the effect of duloxetine on brain function in mood specific emotional processing in healthy volunteers: an fMRI study bridging pharmacotherapeutical and cognitive psychological approaches to depression” in collaboration with Dr. Robbert Jan Verkes (Pompe Stichting Nijmegen) and Prof. Guillen Fernàndez (FC Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen) (equals 1fte PhD-student for 2 years) |
| 2008-2010 | 100.000 intramural grant “Genes to remember” in collaboration with Dr. Barbara Franke (Department of Anthropogenetics, Nijmegen) and Prof. Guillen Fernàndez (FC Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Nijmegen) (equals 1fte Post-Doc for 2 years) |
| 2009 | 10.000 Euro start-up grant “Psychosocial Network in the treatment of patients with Parkinson’s disease” from the Dutch Parkinson Association in collaboration with Dr. Rianne Esselink (Department of Neurology) |
| 2011-2017 | 180.000 Euro intramural PhD grant on stress and aging (AGIKO) |
| 2012-2017 | Helmholtz grant together with Prof. Norris, Erwin-Hahn Institute and Prof. Wiltfang, Department of Psychiatry, University of Goettingen on fMRI and spectroscopy in healthy elderly and type 2 Diabetes, 530.000 Euro |
| 2014-2018 | Radboud PhD grant on neurocognitive effects of electroconvulsive therapy using resting state fMRI and GABA-spectroscopy (2014-2018), 180.000 € (AGIKO) |
| 2015-2019 | Radboud PhD grant on neural underpinnings of negative schemas in depression and their modification, 180.000 € (OIO) |
| 2016-2019 | Interreg V grant on cognitive bias modification in depression (370.000€) |
| 2018-2019 | Interreg V grant on cognitive bias modification in psychooncology (90.000€) |
| 2018-2022 | ZONMW grant on Cognitive control training (CCT) as an add-on intervention in elderly depressed patients (230.000€) ZONMW grant on Cost-effectiveness of rTMS/CBT as next step in antidepressant non-responders (360.000€) |
supervision of Postdocs, PhD students
| since 1998 | co-promotion of 6 medical theses at the Medical faculty of the University of Cologne, Germany (2 with Magna cum laude) |
| since 2004 | (co-)promotion of 4 master (2 with Magna cum laude) co-promotor
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| since 2010 | post-doc supervision
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Teaching activities
| 1994-1998 | Teaching of nurses in neurology and psychiatry |
| since 1998 | Lectures on Psychiatry and Neurology for medical students at the University of Cologne, Germany |
| since 2001 | Lectures on “Cognitive Neurosciences in Psychiatry” at the University of Cologne, Germany |
| since 2004 | Coordinator of “Cognitive Neurosciences in Psychiatry” for the Master Course Cognitive Neurosciences at the University of Nijmegen, Netherlands |
| since 2004 | Lectures on Psychiatry for medical students at the University of Nijmegen, Netherlands |
| 2006-2011 | Adjunct lecturer at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cologne Medical Center |
| 2007-2010 | Mentor of medical students during their master phase in Nijmegen |
| 2009-2012 | Member of the educational board of the Donders Graduate School Master Course Cognitive Neurosciences at the University of Nijmegen, Netherlands |
| since 2010 | Coordinator educational research meetings for Phds and post-docs at the Department of Psychiatry of Radboud University Medical Center |
| since 2011 | Coordinator of the theoretical courses for residents in psychiatry |
| 05/2011 | Director of the residency programme in Psychiatry of the Radboud University Medical Center Chair of the Board of directors of the residency programme in psychiatry in the East-Netherlands |
| since 2011 | Adjunct lecturer at the Department of Psychiatry, University of Essen-Duisburg |
| 2012-2015 | Mentor of medical students during their bachelor phase in Nijmegen |
| 2012-2015 | Co-developer and editor of the new national residency programme for psychiatry HOOP 2.0 |
| since 2015 | Track coordinator “Learning, memory and plasticity” Master Course Cognitive Neurosciences at the University of Nijmegen, Netherlands |
| since 2016 | Coordinator bachelor course “Meet the expert”, medical curriculum Radboudumc |
| 2016-2018 | Member Projectboard, a central teaching board of the Radboudumc dedicated to innovation and research projects for bachelor students, medical curriculum Radboudumc |
Patient care activities (currently 0,4 fte per week)
specific function in patient care
Interim-Head of the consultation psychiatry of the UMC St Radboud with the supervision of an interdisciplinary team of 1 psychiatrist and one general practitioner during specialization, 2 advanced nurse practioner’s and one nurse
specific expertise
being a neurologist and psychiatrist by training IT has developed a specific expertise in the top specialism of neuropsychiatry in particular focusing on neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Huntington’s disease. In 2006 she developed the psychiatric screening at the local Parkinson Day Clinic, an internationally recognized Center of Excellence. Over the last five years she has implemented specific patient care for old age psychiatry and set-up an outpatient clinic for old age psychiatry. From May 2015 onwards she has focused her clinical work on the consultation psychiatry within the RUMC where she supervises in particular the neuropsychiatric and old age psychiatry consultations. From her longstanding research expertise within stress-related mental disorders, IT has embarked on a collaboration with the Department of surgery/MITEC to investigate the aspects of healing environment on course and outcome of surgical diagnostics and intervention and integrate this into patient care. Recently she has started a collaboration with the Department of hematology-oncology to apply short cognitive interventions in patients with acute distress symptoms
Memberships of professional societies
| 11/2005- | Dutch Society of Psychiatrists |
| 11/2010- | Society for Biological Psychiatry |
Governing board and committee activities
at local level
- 2008- 2016 Member of the Regional Medical Ethical Commission (Arnhem-Nijmegen), now advisor
- 2018- Board member Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior
at national level
- 2016-2018 Director of the concilium psychiatricum of the NVvP
- 2014-2016 Member of the plenary visitation committee of the NVvP
- 2016- Member of the ZONMW Veni committee
- 2015- Ad Hoc member of other ZONMW committees ( including Top subsidie)
at international level
- Member of the Board of Professors and Associate Professors of the Medical Faculty of the University of Essen-Duisburg
- Steering board member of an international consortium on neurobiology of electroconvulsive therapy ( GEMRIC)
Reviewing for and editorships of scientific journals
Associate Editor
- Human Brain Mapping
Guest Editor
- Dutch Journal of Psychiatry
Ad hoc reviewer
- Acta Scand Psychologica, American Journal of Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, Brain, Brain Research, DFG (German Research Council), Hippocampus, Molecular Psychiatry, NeuroImaging, Neuropsychologia, International Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Neuroscience, Journal of Psychiatry Research, U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation, Schizophrenia Research, ZonMW (Dutch Health Research Council)
Scientific Organizer
- 46. Annual Meeting of the German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology and Functional Brain Imaging in Bonn, October 3rd to 7th 2001 (Co-organizer)
- “Cognitive Neuropsychiatry Meeting” in Nijmegen, April 12th to 13th, 2005 (Co-organizer)
- Symposium at the annual meeting for Dutch Psychiatrists about the neurobiology of depression in Maastricht, April 11th to 13th, 2007
- Symposium at the annual meeting for Dutch Psychiatrists about structural MRI in Psychiatry in Amsterdam, April 10th to 12th, 2008
- Symposium at the annual meeting for Dutch Psychiatrists about structural MRI in Psychiatry in Amsterdam, April 1st to 3rd, 2009
- Local Psychiatry Symposium Nijmegen, June 9th 2009: “Cognitive Neuroscience in Psychiatry”
- Symposium at the annual meeting for Dutch Psychiatrists about functional and structural brain changes in depression in Maastricht, March 31st to April 1nd, 2010
- Symposium at the annual meeting for Dutch Psychiatrists about vulnerability factors of depression in Amsterdam, March 30th to April 1st, 2011
- Symposium on neuromodulatory therapies at the annual meeting of the Society of Applied Neurosciences, January 31st, 2014
- Symposium on aging in Apeldoorn, January 29th, 2015
- Symposium on the Neuroplasticity induced by electroconvulsive therapy at the human system level Society for Biological Psychiatry in Toronto, March 14th to 16th, 2015
- Symposium at the annual meeting for Dutch Psychiatrists about bias modification training in depression in Maastricht, March 30th to April 1st, 2016
- Symposium on multimodal imaging of electroconvulsive therapy at the human system level Society for Biological Psychiatry in San Diego, May 18th to 20th, 2017
- Symposium on multimodal imaging of electroconvulsive therapy at the human system level Annual Meeting of Human Brain Mapping in Singapore, June 17th to 20th, 2018
Invited lectures
national
- Invited lecture at the Open Day 07/2005 of the Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging Nijmegen
- Invited lecture at the second A. Guiora Annual Roundtable Conference in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Max-Planck-Institute Nijmegen 10/2007
- Invited lecture at the Dutch Figon days 10/2012
- Invited lecture at the Dutch Neurological Association 02/2013
- Invited lecture at the translational Neuroscience NetworkConference 10/2018
- Invited lecture at the Shared care symposium on depression 02/2019
international
- Invited lecture at the “Neuroscientific Symposium of the University of Cologne” 10/2006
- Invited lecture at the “World Congress of Biological Psychiatry” 05/2011
- Invited lecture at the Neuroscientifc meetings of the University of Göttingen 05/2015
- Invited lecture at the Medical Imaging Conference in Trondheim, Norway 11/2016
- Invited lecture at the annual symposium of the Erwin L. Hahn Institute in Essen, Germany 11/2017
Experience abroad
| 1993-1994 | Compulsory Shadow House Officer Year in Zürich, Switzerland |
| 10/1995-10/1996 | Post-Doctoral Research Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience Department of Psychology / Wellcome Brain Research Group, University of St Andrews, Great Britain |
| Since 12/2003 | Working as clinician/researcher with a German-Indian Background at the Radboud University Medical Center Nijmegen |