University Hospital Heidelberg
Heidelberg, Germany 
Head of the Department
Prof. Dr. Georg Friedrich Hoffmann
Department of General Pediatrics
Department of General Pediatrics at University Hospital Heidelberg provides care for infants, children, and adolescents with congenital and acquired diseases. The department offers its service on both an outpatient and inpatient basis as it treats more than 4,000 inpatients every year, about 13% of patients suffer from epilepsy and intracranial masses and therefore get treated in the neurology unit.
Under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Med. Georg Friedrich Hoffmann, the department is involved in the Center for Rare Diseases to provide optimal care for patients with such diseases. The research unit is mainly concerned with the neurological, hormonal, and nephrological pathologies in children and adolescents.
The Department of General Pediatrics at University Hospital Heidelberg is specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of:
- Infectious diseases
- Growth disorder
- Stomach pain
- Muscle pain
- Skin diseases
- Obesity
- Rheumatic diseases
- Fever
- Maple syrup disease
- Aciduria
- Cholesterol biosynthesis disorders
- Lysosomal storage diseases
- Developmental disorders
- Epilepsy
- Diabetes mellitus
- Chronic inflammatory bowel disease
- Kidney failure
- Eating disorders
- Celiac disease
- 1976 - 1984 Study of Medicine at the universities of Göttingen (Germany) and Birmingham (United Kingdom).
- 1984 Doctorate with honors, University of Göttingen.
- 1984 - 1986 Postdoctoral Fellow, Division of Biochemical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego, USA (Ph.D. L. Sweetman and Ph.D. V.L. Nayhan).
- 1984 - 1991 Clinical training in Pediatrics, Children's Hospital at the University of California, San Diego, USA, as well as in Göttingen and Heidelberg.
- 1992 - 1994 Group Leader, Head of the Section for Metabolic Disorders, Department of Pediatrics at the University Hospital Heidelberg.
- 1994 - 1999 Professor of General Pediatrics, Philip University of Marburg, as well as the Head of the Department of Pediatric Neurology and Metabolic Disorders.
- Since 1999, Professor of General Pediatrics and Chief Physician of the Department of General Pediatrics, Pediatric Neurology, Metabolic Disorders, Gastroenterology, and Nephrology at the University Hospital Heidelberg.
Awards and Honors
- 1986 Noel Rein Award of the Society for the Study of Congenital Metabolic Disorders.
- 1994 Award of the Society for the Study of Congenital Metabolic Disorders.
- 2000 Science 4 Life Award.
Research Interests
- Development of screening strategies in patients with cystic fibrosis.
- Pathophysiology and treatment of metabolic disorders.
- Rare hereditary diseases.
Department of General Pediatrics
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