Dirk Wackernage
Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Biography
Dirk Wackernage is a neonatologist by heart, trying to improve treatment and outcome for our sick patients. Optimizing nutrition and growth in sick newborn term and preterm infants is my main research interest. One particular aspect is the postnatal glucose homeostasis following birth. In addition drug safety and patient safety is an other interest. He is an ultrasound enthusiast mainly of the newborn brain but even all other organ systems.