Faculty members

Christian Poets

Christian Poets, MD, is Professor of Paediatrics at Tuebingen University. He graduated from Hannover Medical School in June 1986 and received his medical and scientific training at the Dept. of Pediatric Pulmonology & Neonatoloy, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, and at the Dept. of Paediatric Respiratory Physiology, National Heart & Lung Institute, London, UK. In 1994, he became consultant paediatrician, in charge of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and the Paediatric Sleep Lab in Hannover, and was appointed Head of the Department of Neonatology at Tuebingen University in 2002. In 2007, he became speaker of the newly founded Centre for Craniofacial Malformations at Tuebingen University Hospital. He also served as president of the Society for Neonatology and Paediatric Intensive Care from 2006-2010. His main research interests lie in the control of breathing, oxygen monitoring, innate immunity, neonatal clinical studies and epidemiology. Currently, he is (Co-)PI of 2 large grants to study the effects of inhaled steroids and automated oxygen control, respectively, on neurologically intact survival and BPD prevention in extremely low gestational age infants. He has co-authored >280 articles cited in PubMed and has contributed to over 120 review articles. He is a member of the Neonatal Society (London) and the German Society of Neonatology & Pediatric Intensive Care