Friedrich Reiterer MD

Friedrich Reiterer, MD (Co-Course Director) is a Professor of Pediatrics at the Children’s Hospital of the Medical University of Graz, working as a neonatologist at the Clinical Division of Neonatology. After earning an MD degree from the University of Graz in 1979, he completed a general and pediatric internship in 1987. In 1989, he completed a postgraduate education at the university hospital for Children, Queen Fabiola, in Brussels, Belgium, for research activity in the field of sudden infant death syndrome. From December 1990 to May 1992, Dr. Reiterer completed a research fellowship at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, USA, working on pulmonary function testing in neonates and multichannel polysomnographic recording for the evaluation of infant apnea. He continued his research activity in Graz focusing on the management of neonates with respiratory morbidity. Dr. Reiterer has published in numerous medical journals and has been invited to speak at national, and international conferences. Besides his research activity, he is regularly and actively involved in medical training programs for students, nurses, and physicians and since 2005 he is a faculty member and co-course director at the Maternal Infant Health seminars of the AAF in Salzburg. Dr. Reiterer is a member of the German-Austrian Society for Neonatal and pediatric intensive care.