Head of Neuropaediatrics, Metabolism and Social Paediatrics Centre
Certifications
Certified muscle centre (German Society for Muscle Diseases)
Child protection medicine (German Society for Child Protection in Medicine)
'Top clinic' for neuropaediatrics (Focus clinic list 2022, 2023, 2024)
Current information
Unfortunately, we are still only available by telephone to a limited extent. We would like to ask you to contactus primarily by email at anmeldung.spz@uniklinik-ulm.de. Employees from the healthcare sector are welcome to contact our specialised staff directly by email.
For follow-up prescriptions , please use the form linked below. Enquiries for new patients (patients who have not previously been under our care) should preferably be made using the form linked below.
From 1 August,follow-up appointments for known patients will only be allocated digitally internally at the SPC appointment and sent by post; external appointment allocation and scheduling is not regularly planned. Due to the high demand, it may be necessary in individual cases to deviate from the planned check-up interval (e.g. 6 months). In any case, you will be notified approximately 6 weeks before the scheduled appointment. Please refrain from making enquiries here too.
If you have any difficulties, you can contact us via the usual email anmeldung.spz@uniklinik-ulm.de or during our telephone consultation hours as indicated.
Telephone hours:
Monday - Friday morning: from 08.00 - 09.00 a.m.
Monday, Tuesday and Thursday afternoon: from 14:30 - 15.30
Phone: 0731-500 57010 | Fax: 0731-500 57011
Postal address: Frauensteige 10, 89075 Ulm, Michelsberg
To register new patients at the SPC, please use the following form together with your paediatrician. You will be guided through the digital registration and screening process.
Due to legal requirements, we are only allowed to accept patients who have been referred to us by a paediatric specialist (paediatrician).
Registration form [in progress]
If we are unable to offer an appointment at this time due to the information provided, we will inform you shortly.
Please note that due to the high number of enquiries and the organisational processing times, feedback may only be received after 4 weeks. Please refrain from contacting us by email or telephone.
In the event of technical difficulties with our digital registration process, you can also send us the conventional form [link] by post or email. Please note that this may result in significantly longer processing times in individual cases.
Thank you for your understanding, your SPZ team
Please use the following forms to request follow-up prescriptions:
Medication (also BTM)
Aids/remedies (physiotherapy/occupational therapy/logopaedics)
If we do not yet have a referral form from your paediatrician for this quarter, please hand it in as soon as possible, otherwise your request cannot be processed.
Please note that due to the increased number of requests and the organisational reasons for postal delivery times, some prescriptions may only arrive after 2 weeks. Please refrain from contacting us by e-mail or telephone.
Prescriptions for narcotics (BTM) are only valid for 7 days from the date of issue and are therefore always issued on Mondays and sent by registered mail.
In the event of technical difficulties with our digital process, you can send your prescription requests conventionally by e-mail or telephone. Please note that this may result in significantly longer processing times in individual cases.
Treatment at the social paediatric centre
The Ulm Social Paediatric Centre is part of the University Children's Hospital and works according to the standards of the German Society for Social Paediatrics(DGSPI). At the SPC, we offer interdisciplinary diagnostics, counselling, support and therapy for children and adolescents with developmental abnormalities, chronic neurological disorders and congenital or acquired disabilities from birth to the age of 18 and advise their parents and other caregivers. Outpatient treatment at the SPC is provided exclusively on referral by paediatricians in private practice. Children with acute neurological problems are treated in the paediatric neurology outpatient clinic. Children and adolescents with congenital metabolic diseases can also be cared for at our centre beyond the age of 18.
Staff from the section provide consultative care for paediatric inpatients with neurological problems. If one of our patients requires treatment or diagnostic measures in hospital, we will organise the relevant appointments and the SPC team will of course also look after them in the paediatric clinic and advise the doctors treating them on site.
Muscle consultation [neuropaediatrics, physiotherapy]
Paediatric neurofibromatosis consultation
Consultation hours for congenital metabolic diseases
Consultation hours for children, adolescents and adults with phenylketonuria
Consultation hours for (lysosomal) storage diseases
Interdisciplinary follow-up care for premature babies [neuropaediatrics, neonatology, physiotherapy]
Interdisciplinary neuro-orthopaedic consultation (NOS) - spine [neuropaediatrics, orthopaedics, physiotherapy]
Interdisciplinary neuro-orthopaedic consultation (NOS) - general [neuropaediatrics, orthopaedics, physiotherapy]
Aids consultation [physiotherapy, neuropaediatrics]
Electroencephalography measures the
electrical activity of the brain.
An EEG recording is performed as a supplement to the medical
examination in the case of
- seizure-like symptoms (e.g. movement disorders,
fainting states) - for/to rule out epilepsy
- loss of consciousness
- other neurological symptoms/diseases
- developmental disorders
- intellectual disability
- autism
Procedure of a recording:
The measurement takes approx. 20 minutes and is carried out while the child is awake or asleep. It is completely painless and the children are prepared for the examination according to their age. It is carried out using a rubber bonnet (Schröter bonnet) with moist electrodes and cables connected under the tubes. A video recording is made at the same time, which can provide helpful information for the doctors analysing the examination.
The electrodes record the brain activity, which is transmitted via the cables to the PC where it is displayed graphically.
In order to obtain a recording that is as free of interference as possible, the children are distracted during the procedure as appropriate to their age, as they should keep their heads as still as possible.
Our patients include children and adolescents with
- Regulatory disorders in infancy and toddlerhood (e.g. extreme crying, sleeping and feeding/eating disorders)
- Neurological or developmental problems (e.g. relating to motor skills, speech, perceptual and behavioural functions)
- Cerebral palsy and other movement disorders
- Developmental problems following premature birth or serious complications in the neonatal period
- Profound developmental disorders (e.g. autism spectrum disorder)
- Physical / mental / psychological and multiple disabilities
- Attention problems (e.g. ADD, ADHD)
- Learning and performance disorders (e.g. dyslexia, dyscalculia)
- Communication problems (e.g. selective mutism)
- behavioural disorders
- Social and emotional development problems
- Epilepsies
- Neuromuscular diseases (e.g. muscular dystrophies)
- Neurocutaneous diseases (e.g. neurofibromatosis, tuberous sclerosis)
- Inflammatory diseases of the nervous system (e.g. multiple sclerosis)
- Vascular diseases of the brain (e.g. stroke)
- Malformations of the central nervous system (e.g. spina bifida, hydrocephalus, brain malformations)
- Syndromal or genetic diseases associated with neurological developmental disorders (e.g. trisomy 21, Rett syndrome, metabolic disorders)
- Families in stressful psychosocial situations
- Alcohol damage during pregnancy (foetal alcohol spectrum disorder)
Specialists in paediatrics and adolescent medicine as well as doctors in further training look after your child on a case-by-case basis under the close supervision of specialists in paediatrics and adolescent medicine with advanced training in neuropaediatrics (paediatric neurology)
Anne Corrado (M.Sc. Psych.)
Adisa Hadzajlic (M.Sc. Psych.)
Desiree Matschiner (M.Sc. Psych.)
Jennifer Sercis (M.Sc. Psych.)
Susanne Höhn
Petra Schlanstedt
Anke Pecher
Susanne Riedel
Lisa Benedikter
Annette Homma
Leonie Müller
Social pedagogue SPZ
Sabine Barth
Kerstin Burri
Fatma Akgül
Tanja Lehner
Anja Willbold
Publications
Publications Prof. S. Cirak [Google Scholar]
Publications Dr J. Krämer [Google Scholar]
Certificates and awards
