Wieland Kiess#


Wieland Kiess
Membership Number:6947
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE
Elected:2024
Main Country of Residence:GERMANY
Homepage(s):https://www.uniklinikum-leipzig.de
ORCID:0000-0003-4118-9455





Present and Previous Positions
  • 2002 - 2005 Dean of the Medical School, University of Leipzig, Germany
  • 2014 - 2020 Foreign professor adjunct, Karolinska Hospital, University of Stockholm, Schweden, Dept. Woman and Child Health
  • Since 01.01.1998 until present, director, Hospital for Children and Adolescents, chair of paediatrics, full professor, University of Leipzig, Germany
  • 1994 - 1998 deputy head, consultant paediatrician, Children´s Hospital, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
  • 1992 - 1994 consultant paediatrician, University Children´s Hospital, München, Germany
  • 1983 - 1985, 1988-1992 physician in training, paediatrics; paediatrician, University Children´s Hospital, München, Germany
  • 1985 - 1988 visiting research fellow, National Cancer Institute, Metabolism Branch Endocrine Section, Bethesda, MD, USA

Fields of Scholarship
  • Diabetology
  • Paediatric endocrinology
  • NAD metabolism
  • Adipocyte physiology
  • Cell biology
  • Insulin-like growth factors/receotors
  • Chronic illness in childhood and adolescence

Honours and Awards
  • 1985 Marius-Tausk-Förderpreis der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Endokrinologie, Germany
  • 1994 Adalbert-Czerny-Preis der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Kinderheilkunde, Germany
  • 2016 Andrea Prader Prize of the European Society of Paediatric Endocrinology
  • 2016 Robert Vines Lecture, Australian Pediatric Endocrine Group
  • 2018 DAG-Medaille der Deutschen Adipositas-Gesellschaft, Germany
  • 2023 Order of Merit (Verdienstorden), Free State of Saxony, Germany

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