Doctor Kurt Widhalm

About the Doctor

Certificates

• Nestle-Alete Prize 1978

• Clemens von Pirquet Prize 1980

• Konrad Lang Prize 1986

• Dr. F. Habig Prize 1989

• Austrian Prize for Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases 1990

• Research Promotion Prize of the First 1994

• Science Prize of the Austrian Society for Pediatrics 2007

• Therapy Award of the German Obesity Society (as the first Austrian) 2010

Publications

• ca. 390 scientific papers, mainly in international journals; several books

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Membership

• Member of the Drug Safety Committee at the Federal Ministry of Health, Sport and Consumer Protection

• Member of the scientific advisory board of the Austrian Medical Association.

• President of the European Association for Research in obese children (EAROC)

• President of the Academic Institute for Nutritional Medicine, Vienna

• Member of the EMEA European Medicine Agency, London

Experience

• 1978 Chief Physician of an internal ward

• 1973 Transfer to the Univ. Children's Hospital Vienna

• 1974 Establishment and management of the outpatient clinic for lipometabolism and the nutritional consultation of the clinic

• 1992 Assignment as head of the internal department and medical director of the Mautner Markhof'schen Children's Hospital of the City of Vienna

• 2003 Assignment as Professor for Nutritional Medicine

• since 1988 Head of the Austrian Early Diagnosis and Treatment Program for Congenital Metabolic Disorders at the University Children's Hospital Vienna

• 2004 Head of the Department of Nutritional Medicine of the Medical University of Vienna

• 1995 Return to the Univ. Children's Hospital Vienna as senior physician in charge

• 2003 Head of the Department of Nutritional Medicine of the Univ. of Vienna

• Head of the Austrian Academic Institute for Nutritional Medicine (ÖAIE) in Vienna

Education

• 1986 Assignment of the professional title of a.o.University Professor

• 1998 Recognition as a specialist in medical and chemical laboratory diagnostics by the Austrian Medical Association

• 1971 - 1973 Medical Assistant at the Physiological Institute of the University of Vienna; Summer 1971: Study visit to the USA

• 1977 Medical specialist in Pediatrics

• 1994 Assignment of "Venia docendi" for medical and chemical laboratory diagnostics (Clinical Chemistry)

• 1980 Habilitation for Pediatrics

Services

• Performing body composition measurements

• Metabolic testing

• Nutritional education in case of overweight/underweight and all intolerances

• Genetic counseling and performing genetic analysis in case of congenital diseases

• Precise laboratory diagnostics

• Diagnostics of malnutrition