Online Pediatric Consultation - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Kurt WIDHALM

Academic Career:

• Since 1974: Head of Outpatient Clinic for Obesity, Feb.1978: Senior Lecturer in Pediatrics; Specialized for Lipid Disorders and Nutrition Counseling
• 1980: Assoc.Prof.of Pediatrics ( Univ. Dozent)
• July 1986: Professor for Pediatrics
• 1987: Head of the "Academy of Clinical Nutrition" of the Austrian Nutrition Society and of the Physicians Board of Vienna
• 1.1.1988-1992: Director of the Austrian Screening Program for Inborn Errors of Metabolism (incl.Treatment Program), located on the Dept. of Pediatrics, Univ.Vienna
• 15.10.1992: Director and Head of Internal Department of the Mautner Markhof Children's Hospital, Vienna
• 1994: Professor for Clinical Chemistry
• 1995: Professor for Pediatrics, Dept. for Pediatrics, Univ.Vienna
• 1997: President Austrian Academy for Medical Nutrition
• 2003: Full Professor for Clinical Nutrition and Head of Dept.
• Nutrition and Metabolism
• 2011 Oct.: Retirement of the Med Uni Vienna (still responsible for the lectures in Clinical Nutrition, for diploma studies, etc.)
• 2012: Appointment at the PMU Salzburg (within the EU Project: Beta-Judo as Principal Investigator)
• 2012: Start of the Prevention Project in Viennese Schools (sponsored by Österreichischer Herzfonds)

Foreign studies:

• May/June 1975: Clin. Institute for Research on Myocardial
• Infarction, Med.Clinics, Univ. Heidelberg, Germany.
• Oct.1977: Lipid Res.Clinics, Dept.Pediatrics, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, Md. (Prof.Dr. P.O.Kwiterovich)
• May 1982: Invited Tour Speaker, American.Ass.Clin. Chem., (15 lectures in USA)
• Oct.1983: The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Dept.of Biochemistry, Section Lipids, Nutrition and Metabolic Dis.
• Oct.1985: Children's Hospital Melbourne
• Oct./Nov.1988: University Riberao Preto, Sao Paulo, Brasil
• Jan.1992: Inst.for Genetic Diseases, Academy of Science, Moscow
• Committees and Boards:
• Secretary of the Austrian Society for Pediatrics (1982-86)
• Council Member and Vice President (1992-96) of the Austrian Society for Nutrition (1990-2000)
• President Austrian Medical Academy of Nutrition (since 1997)
• President of the Austrian Lipid Society (until 1994)
• Member of the Health Council of the City of Vienna (1991-1999)
• President of the Federation of European Societies of Nutrition (FENS) 1995-99
• President European Childhood Obesity Group (2003-2007)
• President European Association for Research in Obese Children (EAROC, since 2007)
• Vice President of the European Academy of Nutritional Societies (since 2014)
• Editorial Scientific Boards:
• Aktuelle Ernährungsmedizin (G.Thieme, Stuttgart)
• Nutrition Research (Pergamon Press) until 2007
• Klinische Pädiatrie (F.Enke-Verlag) until 2007
• J.Amer.Coll.Nutrition until 2006
• Int.Pediatrics
• Editor: J. für Ernährungsmedizin (Wien)
• Co-Editor for Pediatrics: Obesity Facts

Publications: (Books)

• 1. K.Widhalm, H.K. Naito
• (Eds.): Detection and Treatment of Lipid and Lipoprotein Disorders of Childhood 1985 (Alan R.Liss, New York) Progress in Clin. and Biol. Res.Vol.88
• 2. K.Widhalm, H.K. Naito (Eds.): Recent Aspect of Diagnosis and Treatment of Lipoprotein Disorders 1988 (Progress in Clin. and Biol.Res.Vol. 255), Alan R.Liss, New York
• 3. Apolipoproteins in Lipid Disorders, Springer, Wien, New York-1991
• 4. Ernährungsmedizin, Verlag d. Österr. Ärztekammer, Wien, 2000, 2006, 2009
• 5. Mein Kind ist zu dick, Verlag d. Österr. Ärztekammer, Wien, 2002
• 6. G. Krejs. K. Widhalm: Durch Dick und Dünn, Verlagshaus der Ärzte 2009
• 7. Pädiatrische Ernährungsmedizin (Co-Herausgeber), Schattauer Verlag 2012
• 8. Morbid Obesity in Adolescents, Springer 2015
• 400 scientific papers, all of them in International Journals

Reviewer:

• Pediatric Research, Pediatrics, Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism, European Journal of Pediatrics,J. Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases, Journal of Pediatric
• Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Gene Therapy,
• J.Inher.Metab.Dis., Int.J.Obesity, Int. J. Pediatric Obesity, Obesity Surgery; etc.