Birgit Kauffmann

Birgit Kaufmann is a pediatric and adolescent neurologist. The doctor specializes in the treatment of epilepsy, neuromuscular diseases, and headaches.

Experience

• 1997-1999 - internship at the Diaconi Krankenhaus Children's Hospital, Bad Kreuznach, Germany;
• 1999-2010 — work in the departments of pediatric cardiology, neonatology, pediatric intensive care, emergency and outpatient care, pediatric radiology at the University Children's Hospital of Heidelberg, Germany;
• 2010-2012 - physician at the pediatric clinic in Heidelberg;
• Since 2012 – Senior Physician at the Clinic of Child Neurology Links der Weser, Bremen, Germany.

In 2004-2005, Dr. Kaufman was a research fellow at The Ohio State University, USA.

Education

• 1990-1997 — studies at the Faculty of Medicine at the Universities of Frankfurt and Tübingen, Germany;
• 1997 - study of the operability of soft tissue sarcoma in children at the University of Tübingen;
• 2003 - specialization in child and adolescent neurology.

Certificates

• Electroencephalography (EEG);
• Certificate of the center for the treatment of neuromuscular diseases in children;
• Modular family program on epilepsy;
• Epileptology.

Membership in organizations

• Neuropathy Society;
• German Society for Paediatrics and Youth Medicine (DGKJ);
• Society of Pediatric Radiology (GPR).