Florian Burckhardt

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• State Epidemiologist of Rhineland Palatinate at the Landesuntersuchungsamt Rheinland Pfalz [2008 - now]
• Staff Scientist - Field Epidemiology Training Program of the Robert Koch Institute, Berlin [2006 - June 2008]
• Staff Scientist - Public Health, Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority [2004-2005]
• Staff Scientist - Department of Genetic Epidemiology, Institute of Epidemiology, University Munich, Germany [2001-2004]
• Technical assistant - Netdoktor Gmbh, Germany [2001]
• Postgraduate student MSc Epidemiology - University of Edinburgh, UK [2000]
• Research fellow - Department of Zoology, University of Munich, Germany [1998-1999]
• Visiting graduate student - Department of Zoology, University of Pusan, Korea [1997]
• Master of Science, Biology ("Diplombiologe, Universität")- Department of Ecology, University of Munich, Germany [1996]

Research Interests

• Infectious disease epidemiology
• Teaching infectious disease epidemiology
• Infectious disease outbreak management

Documents & Software written by me:

Journal Publications

1. Rückinger S, van der Linden M, Reinert RR, von Kries R, Burckhardt F, Siedler A. "Reduction in the incidence of invasive pneumococcal disease after general vaccination with 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in Germany.", Vaccine, 2009 June 24, 27:4136-41
2. Burckhardt F., Delere Y., Wiese-Posselt M. "Impfstatus sowie Einstellung und Verhalten von Hebammen zu Impfungen - Ergebnisse einer Querschnittsstudie" (in German), Epidemiologisches Bulletin, 2008 May, 21:163-169
3. Burckhardt F., Friedrich A., Beier D., Eckmanns T. "Clostridium difficile Surveillance Trends, Saxony, Germany", Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2008 April, 14:691-692, Manuscript 
4. Burckhardt F., Frank C. "Salmonella-Panama-Erkrankungen: Zu einem überregionalen
   Ausbruch bei Kindern durch Minisalami-Sticks" (in German), Epidemiologisches Bulletin , 2008 Feb, 5:35-38
5. Burckhardt F., Kissling E. "The Disease Detectives: a comic perspective on outbreak investigations", Eurosurveillance Weekly , 2007 December, 12:11
6. Burckhardt F., Siedler A, "Invasive Erkrankungen durch Pneumokokken: Zwischenbilanz des Laborsentinels „PneumoWeb“ am RKI" (in German), Epidemiologisches Bulletin, 2007 May
7. Burckhardt F., Siedler A, "Invasive Erkrankungen durch Pneumokokken: Laborsentinel am RKI" (in German), Epidemiologisches Bulletin, 2007 Jan
8. Burckhardt F., Warner P., Young H. "What is the impact of change in diagnostic test method on surveillance data trends in Chlamydia trachomatis infection?", Sexually Transmitted Infections, 2006 January, 82: 24-30 (manuscript)
9. Burckhardt F. "MOUSE (Mitochondrial and Other Useful SEquences) a compilation of population genetic markers" Bioinformatics. 2002 Jun;18(6):890-1 (manuscript)
10. Burckhardt F., Haeseler, A., Meyer, S. "HvrBase: compilation of mtDNA control region sequences from primates", Nucleic Acids Research, 1999, Vol 27, p138-142 (manuscript)
11. Burckhardt F., Heissenhuber A., Morlock G., Busch U., Schindler P., Fruth A., Ammon A., Wildner M.: „Risk factors for abundance of Shiga toxin producing Escherichia coli in sewage water“, Gesundheitswesen, 2005 Dec;67(12):858-61, (manuscript)

Books and Book Chapters

12. Burckhardt F. Chapter „Non-EHEC E.coli Surveillance“, Robert Koch Institute "Infektionsepidemiologisches Jahrbuch 2007"[language: German]
13. Burckhardt F., Kissling E. „The Disease Detectives, Outbreak Epidemiology for the Rest of Us", a free comic, 2007 October, Homepage, [languages: English, German, Chinese, Norwegian, French, Russian, Portuguese, ...]
14. Burckhardt F. Chapter „Serosurveillance“, in Wildner M and Schlipköter U (eds.) "Handbuch Infektionsepidemiologie", Huber Press, Bern, CH, 

Conference Talks and Lectures

15. Burckhardt F. "Ausbruchsmanagement als Kooperationsaufgabe von Schule, Veterinäramt und GA", Veranstaltung "Hygienemanagement in Schulküchen" der Akademie für öffentliches Gesundheitswesen, Wiesbaden, März 2009, manuscript
16. Burckhardt F. "Survey on the Vaccination Status of Midwives and on their Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviour regarding Vaccination, Germany 2007", ESCAIDE, Berlin, November 2008, manuscript
17. Burckhardt F., "Modellieren von Infektionskrankheiten in Virtuellen Realitäten am Beispiel von 'World of Warcraft'  ", DGEpi, Bielefeld, manuscript
18. Burckhardt F., Espelage W., "Die Krankheitsdetektive: Ausbruchsuntersuchungen" (in German), Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften, Berlin, Juni 2008, manuscript
19. Burckhardt F. Modelling Infectious Diseases in Virtual Realities, The "Corrupted Blood" plague of World of Warcraft from an epidemiological perspective, 24C3, Berlin, December 2007, manuscript, videos
20. Burckhardt F., Modelle in der Infektionsepidemiologie, Vorlesung im MPH Kurs „Öffentliche Gesundheit und Epidemiologie“ der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Januar 2007 (manuscript)
21. Burckhardt F., Open Source and Pandemic Influenza , 22C3 Conference, Berlin, December 2005 (manuscript)
22. Burckhardt F., Modelle in der Infektionsepidemiologie, Vorlesung im MPH Kurs „Öffentliche Gesundheit und Epidemiologie“ der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, November 2005 (manuscript)
23. Burckhardt F., SurvNet: The German Infectious Disease Surveillance Network , WTH, Netherlands, July 2005 (manuscript)
24. Burckhardt F., SEXual Salvation -- How carbon-based lifeforms adapt to evolutionary pressure from infections and what computers can learn from them., 21C3, Berlin, December 2004, (manuscript)
25. Burckhardt F., Biological Weapons: treaties, bug overview, civilian preparation , 20C3, Berlin, December 2003 (manuscript)

Conference Posters

26. Burckhardt F., Gervelmeyer A., Rabsch W., Hiller P., Prager R., Klieber B., Frank C. "Nationwide Outbreak of Salmonella Panama in Children due to Minisalami Sticks, Germany, Summer 2007", IMED, 2009, Vienna, Austria, poster here
27. Burckhardt F., Siedler A. "Continuity despite change: The German Pneumococcal Surveillance", DGEpi, Bielefeld, 2008, poster here
28. Burckhardt F., Kissling E. The Disease Detectives, European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology ESCAIDE, Stockholm, October 2007, poster here
29. Burckhardt F., Reinert R, Seegmüller I, van der Linden M, Siedler A. Serotype replacement in invasive pneumococcal disease following vaccination: fact or fiction? European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology ESCAIDE, Stockholm, October 2007 poster here
30. Burckhardt F., Friedrich A, Beier D, Eckmanns T. Increase of Clostridium difficile infections in the German state of Saxony 2002-2007, European Scientific Conference on Applied Infectious Disease Epidemiology ESCAIDE, Stockholm, October 2007, poster here
31. Burckhardt F., Heißenhuber A., Morlock G., Sigl C., Busch U., Wildner M.: The Bavarian EHEC Surveillance: 7 years of intensified surveillance of infections with enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli., DGHM Meeting 2004, International Journal of Medical Microbiology 294, p229, Würzburg, 2004.
32. Burckhardt F., Heißenhuber A., Morlock G., Sigl C., Busch U., Huber H.C., Kugler R., Wildner M., Die bayerische EHEC Surveillance: 7 Jahre infektionsepidemiologische Überwachung enterohämorrhagischer E. coli Infektionen, EHEC-Workshop Wildbad Kreuth, July 2004, (poster) [language: German]
33. Burckhardt F., Wichmann HE, Wienker TF, GEM Group Germany: Structuring genetic information for seamless data exchange. NGFN Symposium: Patient-based studies in the NGFN, Munich, April 2003
34. Burckhardt F., Wichmann HE. Family ascertainment for genetic studies via internet based remote data entry: potentials and risks. NGFN/DHGP Symposium: The genetic and molecular basis of human disease, Berlin, November 2002
35. Burckhardt F., P. Belcredi, H.E. Wichmann. Integrated Data Management in Genetic Epidemiological Studies, NGFN Meeting, Genomics of chronic inflammatory disorders, Kiel, July 2002

Technical Reports

36. Burckhardt F. "Die Krankheitsdetektive" (in German), an outbreak-game for children, lecture here
37. Burckhardt F., P. Schindler, M. Kohlhuber, C. Höller, H. Beck, H. Weber, Klimaveränderung in Bayern - Gesundheitliche Folgen und Perspektiven
38. Burckhardt F., Wienker T. Datenstrukturen für die Kommunikation genetisch epidemiologischer Projekte im Nationalen Genomforschungsnetz
39. Burckhardt F. Effective methods for recruitment in genetic studies. NGFN Symposium: Patient-based studies in the NGFN, Munich, April 2003
40. Burckhardt F. Ökotoxikologie: der Elodea Biotest, Munich 1994, (manuscript)

Theses

41. Burckhardt F. "Auswertung der Abundanzen ausgewählter Planktongruppen in parallel angesetzten Mikrokosmen mittels theoretischer Methoden", Munich 1997, MSc Biology, (manuscript)
42. Burckhardt F. "Estimation of Reinfection Intervals for Chlamydia trachomatis based on Routine Healthcare Data", Edinburgh 2000, MSc Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh, (manuscript)

Software

• HvrBase
• Mouse
• RDE tutorial for PHP incl. source code

Grant Applications

• 1997 Korean Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF)

last changed July 7th 2009