University Hospital Muenster
Münster, Germany 
Head of the Department
Prof. Dr. Heymut Omran
Department of General Pediatrics
Department of General Pediatrics at University Hospital Muenster provides medical care for children and adolescents with congenital and acquired diseases. Along with state-of-the-art diagnostics and therapeutics, the department has an extraordinary medical staff due to which the department is recognized for its top-notch care quality. It is one of the first facilities in Germany to receive certification from Ausgezeichnet für Kinder.
The department has the Center for Rare Diseases where the doctors who are specialized in pediatric rare diseases treat children and adolescents suffering from rare diseases as Goodpasture Syndrome. With Prof. Dr. med. Heymut Omran as the head of the department, nearly 3,000 inpatients get treated here every year. The department has a research unit that specifically runs clinical and basic research on congenital metabolic and neurological disorders.
Department of General Pediatrics at University Hospital Muenster is specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of:
• Congenital Glycosylation Disorders
• Urea cycle defects
• Acidurias
• Mucopolysaccharidoses and lysosomal storage disorders
• Vitamin B12 metabolic disorders
• Marfan syndrome
• Cystic fibrosis
• Acute kidney failure
• Chronic kidney failure
• Chronic cough
• Respiratory distress syndrome
• Bronchial asthma
• Primary ciliary dyskinesia
• Celiac disease
• Food allergies
• Crohn’s disease
• Gastroenteritis
• GERD
• Hepatitis
• Liver cirrhosis
• Pancreatitis
• Constipation
• Primary GIT formation
• Short stature
• Tall stature
• Addison’s disease
• Goiter
• Hypo/Hyperthyroidism
• Premature puberty
• Hypogonadism
• Diabetes Mellitus Type 1
• Diabetes Mellitus Type 2
• Epilepsy
• Spinal muscular atrophy
Education
- 1986 - 1987 Alternative service at German Red Cross.
- 1987 - 1994 Study of Human Medicine at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg.
Scholarships and Medical Training Abroad
- Since 1988 Member of the German Scholarship Foundation (scholar of Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes).
- 1990 - 1991 Medical training at the University of Manchester, England, UK.
- 1993 - 1994 Scholarship of the state of Baden-Württemberg for the University of Massachusetts, USA.
Professional Career
- 1994 - 1996 Internship in the Department of Pediatrics at the University Hospital Freiburg.
- 1996 - 2001 Research Fellow in the Department of Pediatrics at the University Hospital Freiburg.
- 2001 Medical Specialist in Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
- 2002 Senior Physician at the Center for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Freiburg.
- 2002 Habilitation and Venia legendi in Pediatrics.
- 2004 Deputy Head of the Department of Neuropediatrics and Muscular Diseases.
- 2006 Appointed Extraordinary Professor in Pediatrics.
- 2007 Adjunct Professor of the Department of Pediatrics, University of North Carolina, USA.
- 2010 Head of the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, General Pediatrics, W3 Professor for Pediatric and Adolescent
- Medicine at the University Hospital Muenster.
Clinical Training
- 2006 Board certification in Neuropediatrics.
- 2008 Additional qualification in Pediatric Endocrinology and Diabetology.
- 2009 Additional qualification in Pediatric Pulmonology.
Membership in Scientific Societies
- American Society for Human Genetics (ASHG).
- German Society of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (DGKJ).
- German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology and Functional Imaging (DGKN).
- German Society for Neuropediatrics (GNP).
- European Kidney Research Association (EKRA).
- International Pediatric Nephrology Association (IPNA).
- German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
Scientific Awards
- 1999 Else Kröner Fresenius Award.
- 2001 Award of the European Renal Association for "Mapping of the human adolescent nephronophthisis gene locus and demonstration
- of synteny to the pcy mouse model".
- 2002 Friedrich Linneweh Award.
- Young Investigator Award of the European Society of Human Genetics for "Mutations in DNAH5 cause primary ciliary dyskinesia and randomization of left-right asymmetry".
- 2004 Frank Majewski Award.
- 2006 Manes Kartagener Award.
- 2007 Johannes Wenner Award.
- 2015 Eva Luise Köhler Award.
Expert Review Activities
- Selected journals: Nature Genetics; Nature; Science; Nature Medicine; Nature Cell Biology; Neuron; American Journal of Human
- Genetics; Annals of Neurology; American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine; Journal of Cell Biology; Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.
- Scientific Organizations: German Research Foundation (Germany); INSERM (France), Telethon (Italy), Uitzicht (Netherlands), Wellcome Trust (UK).
- Expert Advisor of the Human Genome Nomenclature Committee (HGNC).
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