University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden
Dresden, Germany 
Head of the Department
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Berner
Department of General Pediatrics
Department of General Pediatrics at University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden provides care for infants, children, and adolescents with congenital and acquired diseases. The department is fully equipped with state-of-the-art diagnostics and therapeutics for the management of various pediatric diseases. The department is a certified center for Allergy, Cystic Fibrosis, Rare Diseases, and Palliative Medicine by the Ausgezeichnet für kinder and offers its service at a high and modern level.
Under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Med. Reinhard Berner, the department treats about 5,400 inpatients every year. The main focus of the department is the treatment of tumors and blood diseases as it has specialized outpatient clinics for hemophilia, hemangiomas and infectious diseases. The department has the Social Pediatric Center where patients are examined and treated on an outpatient and inpatient basis depending on the severity of the disease. The medical team of the center composes of different specialists such as psychology, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, and internal medicine.
The Department of General Pediatrics at University Hospital Dresden is specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of:
• Diabetes mellitus type 1
• Diabetes mellitus type 2
• Obesity
• Abnormal stature
• Premature puberty
• Late puberty
• Congenital hypothyroidism
• Hashimoto thyroiditis
• Pituitary dysfunction
• Cushing’s syndrome
• Polycystic ovary syndrome
• Celiac disease
• Crohn’s disease
• Hepatitis
• Familial adenomatous polyposis
• Alagille syndrome
• Pneumonia
• Bronchial asthma
• Cystic fibrosis
• Bronchitis
• Septic shock
• Leukemia
• Lymphoma
• Solid tumors
• Arrhythmia
• Polycystic kidney disease
• Marfan syndrome
• Von Willebrand disease
• Thrombocytopenia
• Hemophilia
• Juvenile idiopathic arthritis
Professional Career
- 1983 - 1989 Study of Human Medicine at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg.
- 1988 - 1989 Study of Human Medicine at the University of Caen Normandie.
- 1990 Thesis defense at the Institute of Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Würzburg.
- 1989 - 1991 Intern, Research Fellow at the Institute of Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Würzburg (under the direction of Prof.Dr. J. Heesemann).
- 1991 - 1997 Training to become a Pediatrician, University Hospital Freiburg (under the direction of Prof. Dr. Dr. M. Brandis).
Qualifications
- 1997 Specialization in Pediatrics.
- 2000 Qualification in the field of Laboratory Research in Pediatrics.
- 2001 Habilitation in Pediatrics and Venia legendi.
- 2005 Appointment as an Extraordinary Professor.
- 2006 Advanced training in the field of Infectiology (in accordance with the new rules for advanced training of the state of BadenWürttemberg 2006).
- 2006 Advanced training in the field of Pediatric Rheumatology (in accordance with the new rules for advanced training of the state of Baden-Württemberg 2006).
- 2010 Invitation to the Department of Pediatrics at the Technical University of Dresden.
Appointments
- 1997 - 2003 Senior Physician, University Hospital Freiburg (under the direction of Prof. Dr. Dr. M. Brandis).
- 2003 - 2004 Leading Senior Physician, University Hospital Freiburg (under the direction of Prof. Dr. Dr. M. Brandis).
- 2004 - 2005 Acting Head of the Center for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, University Hospital Freiburg, Department of General Pediatrics.
- Head of the Section of Pediatric Infectiology, Immunology and Vaccinology.
- 2005 - 2011 Leading Senior Physician, Center for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, University Hospital Freiburg (under the direction of Prof. Dr. A. Superti-Furga).
- Since 2012, Head of the Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine at the University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden.
Awards and Honors
- 1999 1st DPC Academy Award (Academic Research Award).
- 2000 Research Award of the German Society of Pediatric Infectology (DGPI).
- 2000 Friedrich Linneweh Award to promote young scientists in pediatrics.
- 2005 - 2009 1st Chairman of the German Society of Pediatric Infectology (DGPI).
- 2006 Member of the Pandemic Influenza Commission at the Robert Koch Institute.
Research Focuses
- Mechanisms of immune protection against pathogens in newborns.
- Molecular epidemiology and Streptococcus agalactiae virulence factors (group B Streptococcus).
- Epidemiology of viral pathogens of respiratory diseases in childhood.
- Epidemiology of pediatric meningococcal infections.
- Epidemiology of acute, recurrent and chronic pneumococcal and staphylococcal infections in childhood.
Department of General Pediatrics
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