Jan T. Kielstein MD, PhD, FASN, FERA

Professor Kielstein will continue and develop the work of the clinic at a high level," said the chairman of the supervisory board of the clinic, Lord Mayor Ulrich Markurth. At the same time, the clinic's managing director, Helmut Schüttig, thanked the senior consultant, Dr. Reinhard Wanninger, who has temporarily managed the clinic since the beginning of the year.

“My clinical research activities focused on the role of extracorporeal therapy methods in acute kidney injury, poisoning and sepsis as well as immunological diseases. Furthermore, I conduct pharmacokinetic studies on antibiotic dosage in intensive care patients.”

Born in Zwickau in 1969, Kielstein studied human medicine from 1988 to 1995 at the Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg and at the Pritzker Medical School of the University of Chicago. Professionally, Kielstein established himself as a doctor in MHH Nephrology in 1996, where he also became a Senior Physician in April 2007. In 1999 he completed his dissertation and in 2007 his habilitation.

Since the early 1990s, the doctor has studied and conducted research at various renowned universities in the USA. "At Stanford University, I spent two years in the Cardiovascular Research Center there experimentally intensifying my clinical investigations into cardiovascular risk markers in hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis patients," Kielstein continued. He is now looking forward to continuing the successful work of the Clinic for Kidney and Hypertension Diseases at the Braunschweig Clinic and to expanding it with new facets of clinical nephrology.

The Braunschweig region is Prof. Dr. Incidentally, Kielstein is “well known professionally and privately”. Not least because the Magdeburger by choice regularly crossed the old Braunschweiger Land as a commuter on the way to Hanover. The father of four is married to a doctor. She teaches and researches as a university professor of anatomy at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg.

The range of services at the Clinic for Kidney and Hypertension Diseases at the Braunschweig Clinic covers the entire field of internal medicine with a focus on the diagnosis and treatment of kidney and hypertension diseases. It has a total of 46 beds on four wards. A team of 15 doctors and more than 70 nurses, together with ward secretaries, physiotherapists, and dieticians, take care of the needs and wishes of both inpatients and day-patient dialysis patients. There are around 1,450 inpatient treatments per year, as well as around 16,000 inpatient and day-patient hemodialysis treatments and around 5,000 inpatient and day-patient peritoneal dialysis treatments.