University Hospital Düsseldorf
Dusseldorf, Germany 
Head of the Department
Prof. Dr. Ertan Mayatepek
Department of General Pediatrics, Neonatology and Pediatric Cardiology
The Department of General Pediatrics, Neonatology and Pediatric Cardiology covers a broad range of services in the treatment of general pediatric diseases. Children and adolescents of all ages up to the age of 18 are treated at the department. The main focuses of the clinic include Metabolism, Neuropediatrics, Gastroenterology, Infectiology, Pulmonology, Cardiology, and Neonatology. The clinic also has special experience in the care of children with diabetes mellitus, hormonal and allergological diseases.
The department’s intensive care unit is equipped with state-of-the-art medical technology. They treat mainly premature births, newborns, and also older children with acute, life-threatening disease symptoms. The department treats about 200 cases of low birth weights, 122 cases of type I diabetes in children and teenagers and over 500 cases of different infections. For the intensive care of premature and newborns, a separate neonatological ward is also available. Neonatology cooperates closely with the obstetricians of the University Gynecological department.
The clinic offers a wide range of special outpatient clinics (including metabolism, neurology, endocrinology, gastroenterology and a diabetes outpatient clinic recognized by the German Diabetes Association and a seizure outpatient clinic, certified by the German Society for Epileptology). The epilepsy unit treats about 177 cases per year. In addition, there is a competent team that handles different questions of infectious diseases in infants and adolescents.
The department also offers a wide range of diagnostic examinations (e.g. EEG and electrophysiological examinations). Also integrated is a metabolic lab that has a wide range of modern methods for diagnosis and therapy control of congenital metabolic disorders. Further examinations such as computed tomography, magnetic resonance tomography, and gastroenterological endoscopy are sometimes carried out directly in the pediatric clinic.
The Department of General Pediatrics, Neonatology and Pediatric Cardiology at the University Hospital Düsseldorf is specialized in:
- Management of Metabolic diseases in pediatrics
- Management Mitochondrial diseases in pediatrics
- Diagnosis and treatment of Diabetes mellitus in childhood and adolescence
- Neurological diseases
- Gastroenterological / Hepatological Diseases
- Pulmonological diseases
- Hormonal diseases
- Infectious diseases
- Study of Medicine at the Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf and Ohio Medical College, Toledo, Ohio, USA (Studienstiftung Cusanuswerk Foundation Scholarship).
- 1989 Admission to medical practice (assigned by the head of the district authorities).
- 1989 Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Heidelberg.
- 1990 Doctor of Medicine.
- 1990 - 1991 Medical Microbiology and Epidemiology of Infections, Institute of Hygiene, Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg.
- 1991 - 1992 Postgraduate Scholarship of the German Research Foundation, Department of Tumor Biochemistry, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg.
- 1992- 2002 Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Heidelberg.
- 1996 Appointment to the position of a Senior Physician and Head of the Section for Metabolic and Endocrine Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Heidelberg.
- 1997 Additional qualification "HealthCare Quality Management", Medical Association of the State of Baden-Württemberg.
- Since 1998, Diploma in Pediatric Infectology (German Society of Pediatric Infectiology) and Diabetology (German Society of Diabetology), additional qualifications in Pediatric Endocrinology, Diabetology, and Infectology.
- 2000 Horst Bickel Award.
- 2000, 2001 and 2010 Invitation to the position of C4 Professor of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University of Rostock, and also the position of C3 Professor at the Universities of Leipzig and Heidelberg, as well as at the Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto.
- 2002 Invitation to the position of C4 Professor at the Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf, Department of General Pediatrics.
- Since 2002, Head of the Department of General Pediatrics, Neonatology and Pediatric Cardiology at the University Hospital Duesseldorf.
- Since 2006, Managing Director of the Center for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
- Since 2006, Deputy Dean of the Medical Faculty of the Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf.
- 2008 Klüh Stiftung Foundation Award for promoting innovation in science and research.
- 2013 - 2014 Vice President of the German Society of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (DGKJ).
- Since 2015, President of the German Society of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (DGKJ).
Department of General Pediatrics, Neonatology and Pediatric Cardiology
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