University Hospital Magdeburg
Magdeburg, Germany 
Head of the Department
Prof. Dr. Peter Vorwerk
Department of General Pediatrics
Department of General Pediatrics at University Hospital Magdeburg provides care for children and adolescents with congenital, acquired, acute and chronic diseases of the body systems. The main clinical focuses of the facility are neonatology, pediatric neurology, gastroenterology, endocrinology, diabetology, hematology, and oncology as well as rheumatology. Under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Peter Vorwerk, the medical team offers care for 5,000 outpatients and 3,000 inpatients every year in the outpatient clinics and the general wards with a bed capacity of 80 beds, 16 of which are for the intensive care unit. As a Perinatal Center Level I, the department has the medical experience of the staff alongside the state-of-the-art equipment that allows for the management of 80 preterm infants annually.
The Department of General Pediatrics at University Hospital Magdeburg is specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of:
- Bronchiolitis
- Otitis media
- Glue ear
- Croup
- Sore throat
- Pink eye
- Fifth disease
- Kawasaki disease
- Chickenpox
- Measles
- Mumps
- Whooping cough
- Rubella
- Allergies
- 1969-1981 School education (Abitur)
- 1981-1984 military service
- 1984- 1990 Medical studies, Medical Academy Magdeburg
- 1990 Study visit to Riga / Latvija
- 1990 Approval as a doctor, dissertation on the topic: "Investigations of the child's basic voice frequency and possible influencing factors.", Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg
- 1990- 1992 Assistant doctor, Clinic for Pediatrics, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg (Prof. Dr. H. Köditz)
- 1993- 1994 Research stay at the Hagedorn Research Institute Copenhagen, Denmark (Prof. Dr. P. De Meyts); DAAD scholarship
- 1994- 1995 Assistant doctor, Clinic for Pediatrics, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg (Prof. Dr. H. Köditz)
- 1995- 1997 Oregon Health Sciences University, Dept. Pediatrics, (Prof. Dr. RG Rosenfeld); DFG grant
- 1997- 1999 Assistant physician at the Clinic for Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg (Prof. U. Mittler), head of the oncological research laboratory
- 1999 Specialist in pediatric and adolescent medicine
- 2004 Senior Physician Clinic for Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
- 2005 Habilitation "The IGF system in acute lymphocytic leukemia in childhood"
- 2006 Senior physician in charge of pediatric hematology and oncology at Magdeburg University Children's Hospital
- 2007 Focus on pediatric hematology and oncology
- 2007 Head of Studies "Malignant Endocrine Tumors" of the Society for Pediatric Oncology and Hematology
Department of General Pediatrics
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