Sibylle Koletzko

Professor Koletzko studied medicine at the University of Münster Germany and trained in Paediatrics at the University Children’s Hospital in Düsseldorf. From 1986 until 1988, she was a clinical research fellow in the Division of Paediatric Gastroenterology at the Hospital of Sick Children, Toronto, Canada with Professor Peter Durie and Professor Phil Sherman. Currently, she is the head of the Division of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Kinderpoliklinik and since 2002 at the Dr. v. Haunersches Kinderspital at the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany. Professor Kolko's current research involves projects in inflammatory bowel disease, Helicobacter pylori infection in children, celiac disease, and food allergy. She is one of the principal investigators of the German Infant Nutrition Intervention (GINI Plus) study, in which a cohort of more than 5000 children with and without a hereditary risk for allergy was enrolled which has now been followed for more than 10 years.