ERKNet Reference Center

Institution

Münster, University Hospital

Center

Pediatric Nephrology

Description

The Division of Pediatric Nephrology is a large service for children's rare kidney diseases in Germany with an encatchment of appr. 3.5 million population and more than 3000 outpatient contacts and 300 hospitalizations per year. Our team provides full medical and psychosocial services for children of all ages, including a prenatal consultation clinic. Our group has a special clinical focus on inherited tubular disorders, metabolic stone-forming diseases and cystic renal diseases. We also offer treatment of pediatric chronic and end-stage renal disease, treating more than 150 children in the pre-dialysis stage, on dialysis and after kidney transplantation. Also, we provide the full spectrum of acute renal replacement therapies from neonatal to adolescent age. The clinical service is complemented by our research activities, which include genetic and experimental research in a dedicated laboratory as well as the coordination of a national clinical research consortium dedictaed to early onset cystic kidney deseases (NEOCYST). The Münster group leads a patient registry for nephronophthisis and related ciliopathies.

Team

Senior clinician experts
	Martin Konrad (HCP Lead) [e-mail]
	Jens Koenig (HCP Deputy Lead) [e-mail]
no image	Birgitta Kranz [e-mail]
no image	Karl Peter Schlingmann [e-mail]
Junior clinician experts
no image	Beate Ermisch Omran [e-mail]
Clinicians in training
no image	Lukas Bergerhausen [e-mail]
no image	Andrea Malina Titieni-Schuhmann [e-mail]
Clinical research coordinators
no image	Petra Pennekamp [e-mail]
no image	Sabine Kollmann [e-mail]