University Hospital Freiburg
Freiburg, Germany 
Head of the Department
Prof. Dr. Janbernd Kirschner
Department of Neuropediatrics and Muscular Diseases
Department of Neuropediatrics and Muscular Diseases at University Hospital Freiburg provides care for children and adolescents with neurological and muscular diseases. Treatment and full recovery for patients with acute diseases and management plans tailor-made for those with chronic diseases are both offered by the exceptional team of doctors and nurses of the department of neuropediatrics and muscular diseases. Early diagnosis of some degenerative diseases can make a huge difference in the prognosis so the department is supplied with state-of-the-art diagnostics and therapeutics to ensure early detection and management of various degenerative diseases.
The department is headed by Prof. Dr. Med. Janbernd Kirschner and has a specialized facility called Social and Pediatric Center of Germany where therapists, psychologists as well as teachers provide the best rehabilitation for the children suffering from neurological disorders.
Department of Neuropediatrics and Muscular Diseases at University Hospital Freiburg is specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of:
• Congenital hydrocephalus
• Devic’s disease
• Epilepsy
• Moyamoya
• Multiple Sclerosis
• Muscular dystrophy
• Neonatal hypoxia ischemic encephalopathy
• Pompe disease
• Wolman disease
• Spina bifida
• Muscular atrophy
• Neonatal seizures
• Myotonic dystrophy
• Mitochondrial disorder
• Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
Education and Professional Experience
- Study of Medicine at the University of Freiburg.
- Internship at the University of Newcastle (England) and the University of Bern (Switzerland).
- Specialization in Pediatrics (Doctor in Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine) at the University Hospital Freiburg.
- Specialization in Pediatric Neurology (Neuropediatrics) at the University Hospital Freiburg.
- Two-year Research Internship with a Scholarship of the German Research Foundation at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (USA).
- Head of the Laboratory of Myology at the Center for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine.
- Doctoral dissertation defense and Venia Legendi in Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, Neuropediatrics.
- Since 2017 Acting Medical Director of the Department of Neuropediatrics and Muscular Diseases at the University Hospital Freiburg.
Responsibilities and Positions
- Speaker of the Center for Neuromuscular Diseases and Head of the European Reference Network for Neuromuscular Diseases (EURO-NMD) at the University Hospital Freiburg.
- Leader of the Working Group on Neuromuscular Diseases. The main research focuses include: treatment of neuromuscular diseases within the framework of clinical trials, differential diagnosis and pathological physiology of myopathies and muscular dystrophies in childhood.
- Active collaboration with the European research communities MD-NET, TREAT-NMD and Neuromics.
- Head of the CARE-NMD project to improve treatment of patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy in Europe, created by the European Union in 2010.
Selected Awards
- 2011 Felix Jerusalem Award of the German Society for Muscular Disorders.
- 2016 German Duchenne Foundation Award for Research.
Membership in Societies
- Steering Committee Member of TREAT-NMD (Deputy Chairman) and EURO-NMD.
- Member of the German Society of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine.
- Member of the Society of Neuropediatrics.
- Member of the World Muscle Society.
- Member of the American Academy of Cerebral Palsy and Developmental Medicine.
- Member of the Society of Neurogenetics.
- Honorary Member of the Chilean Society of Pediatric and Adolescent Psychiatry and Neurology
Department of Neuropediatrics and Muscular Diseases
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