Julia von Oettingen
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Dr. Julia von Oettingen is a pediatric endocrinologist at the Montreal Children's Hospital and Assistant Professor at 苹果淫院. She obtained her MD (2008) and PhD (2009) degrees from the University of Leipzig medical school in Germany, and a master of medical sciences degree (2015) from Harvard Medical School. She completed her residency in pediatrics at the Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, and her fellowship in pediatric endocrinology at Boston Children's Hospital, both in Boston, USA. Dr. von Oettingen has been working in Liberia and Haiti to establish pediatric聽diabetes care, and is a site adviser to the International Diabetes Federation鈥檚 Life聽for a Child program in Liberia and Haiti. She is the founding medical director of a pediatric chronic聽care center in Haiti, and technical adviser for pediatric endocrinology to Partners in Health. Her clinical and research interests are diabetes and endocrine conditions in non-Caucasian populations, and chronic care delivery in resource limited settings. Dr. von Oettingen is fluent in German, English, French, Spanish and conversational in Portuguese, Persian and Creole.
Pediatric diabetes; diabetes phenotypes; care delivery; resource-limited settings; global health; point-of-care testing; gestational diabetes outcomes; capacity building