Michael Obladen, MD, PhD
Professor of Pediatrics, Specialist in Neonatology
Former Director, Dept. of Neonatology
Charité University Medicine, Berlin

CURRICULUM VITAE

Since 2008
Professor emeritus, Department of Neonatology Charité University Medicine Berlin

2004 – 2008
Scientific consultant, governmental commission on quality assurance in the care of newborn infants (Gemeinsamer Bundesausschuss)

1995 – 2008
Director, Department of Neonatology
Charité University Medicine Berlin
Germany‘s largest department of neonatology

1986 – 1995
Director, Department of Neonatology
Free University of Berlin (West)

1982 – 1986
Head physician, Division of Neonatology
University of Bochum

1979 – 1982
Associate Professor, Department of Neonatology
University of Tübingen

1977 – 1979
Research and teaching
University Children‘s Hospital Heidelberg

1975 – 1976
Research fellow in Neonatology
University of California, San Diego, USA

1970 – 1974
Pediatric resident
University Children‘s Hospital, Heidelberg

Education
1977
PhD, habilitation at University of Heidelberg

1976
Diploma in neonatology, University of California, San Diego

1969
United States Medical Licensing Examination steps 1 & 2

1969
MD, University of Heidelberg

1963 – 1969
Study of medicine and philosophy at the Universities of Würzburg, Frankfurt/Main and Heidelberg, teachers in philosophy / history: Werner Flach; Theodor W. Adorno; Jürgen Habermas; Oskar Negt; Ernst Tugendhat; Dieter Henrich

Honors & Awards
2007
Honorary member of the German Society of Neonatology

1996
Maternité prize of the German Society of Perinatal Medicine

1989
President of the German Society of Neonatology

Research Topics
2008 - 2018
Cultural history of the Newborn. Multiple travels to study sources of neonatal medicine in libraries, archives, hospital records, foundling institutions, excavations, monasteries, museums, and churches

1995 - 2007
Neuroprotection in perinatal brain injury

1990 - 2000
Anemia of the preterm infant. Erythropoietin treatment and strategies to minimize diagnostic blood loss

1975 - 1991
Surfactant deficiency, laboratory work on surfactant composition and strategies to treat the respiratory distress syndrome of preterm infants

Other Interests
Languages
German (native)
English (fluent, spoken & written)
French (fluent spoken, working knowledge written)
Italian (working knowledge spoken)
Latin (proficient reading skills)

Sports
skiing, hiking, cycling, rowing, scuba-diving

Hobbies
reading, cooking, harpsichord in a baroque music group