Christian P. Speer MD, FRCPE

Prof. Christian P. Speer, MD, FRCPE is Chairman and Director of the University Children’s Hospital in Würzburg, Germany. He was selected as Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Edin) in 1996 and Honorary Member of the American Pediatric Society for his major and internationally recognized contributions to pediatrics.

Prof. Speer’s main areas of research interest include host defense mechanisms in neonates, early detection of neonatal systemic infections, clinical surfactant trials, basic surfactant research and inflammatory mechanisms in acute and chronic lung diseases of preterm infants.