Biographical note

DavidNeubauer, PhD, MD

neurologist, researcher

  • University Medical Centre Ljubljana (UMCL)
  • University of Ljubljana – Medical Faculty
  • Division of Paediatrics
  • Dept. of Child, Adolescent & Developmental Neurology –
  • Past Head – 1996–2014

Memberships, etc

  • Director of the NGO-Foundation of Child Neurology, Slovenia (since 1997)
  • President of the Paediatric Board at Slovenian Medical Association
  • President of the Board of Paediatrics at the Ministry of Health, Slovenia
  • Past President of the Ethics WG at EAP- European Academy of Paediatrics, Paediatric Section of UEMS (2006-2017)
  • EACD – member
  • EPNS – member
  • ICNA – member

Training

  • Diploma of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Medical Faculty: 1978
  • Board of Paediatrics. 8. 12. 1984
  • Licence in Paediatrics
  • Licence in Child Neurology
  • PhD Thesis at University of Ljubljana, Medical faculty: 12.11.1993
  • At Medical Faculty, Ljubljana: Chair of Paediatrics
  • Full professor since 2006
  • Senior Councillor/Senior consultant from1999 At Ministry of Health, Slovenia:
  • Visiting professor and senior consultant in Child Neurology: since 1993 – until present at Ministry of Health, Kuwait:
  • Studies abroad: Lyon and Paris, France: 1981, 1984, London, UK: 1984, 1990

Present positions held:

  • Head of the Paediatric Council at The Ministry of Health, Slovenia
  • Past Head of Paediatric Board at the Slovenian Medical Association (2010-2017)

Field(s) of clinical and research interest

  • Neonatal neurology
  • Neurophysiology – paediatric EEG
  • Rare diseases (neurodegenerative/neurometabolic)
  • Cerebral palsy
  • Ethics

Projects (cooperation):

  • Hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy
  • RESPECT – ethical issues on children research
  • nEUroped – rare diseases in neuropaediatrics
  • NOTE – on-line learning in Neonatology
  • SCPE-4Net – Surveillance of cerebral palsy in Europe
  • PHIME – impact of mercury on early child development

Literature: see here

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