Dominik Thomas Johannes Schneider

Prof. Dr Dominik T. Schneider is Professor of Interdisciplinary Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Director of the Clinic for Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine at Klinikum Dortmund gGmbH and Deputy Medical Director at Klinikum Dortmund gGmbH.

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Specialisations:

• Paediatric and adolescent haematology and oncology: participation in all cooperative therapy studies and clinical registries in paediatric oncology and haematology, member of the study committees for germ cell tumours, soft tissue sarcomas, liver tumours, kidney tumours, malignant endocrine tumours.
• Head of the German Registry for Rare Tumour Diseases in Paediatrics
• European Cooperative Study Group on Pediatric Rare Tumours: Board member and coordinator of the international virtual tumour board for rare tumours in the Clinical Patient Management System of the European Reference Network ERNPaedCan
• Neonatology: Participation in the German Premature Infants Network
• Paediatric Infectiology: Member of the Infectiology Working Group of the Society for Paediatric Oncology and Haematology, member of the Corona Task Force of the German Society for Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
   

• Professor Dr Hermann Kalhoff
• Dr Linda Schonger
• Dr Michael Hofmann
• Dr Benedikt Bernbeck

• Paediatrics and adolescent medicine:
  Care for all acute and chronic illnesses in children and adolescents in outpatient and inpatient settings. Special outpatient clinics in almost all paediatric sub-disciplines. Interdisciplinary care in the Westphalian Children's Centre together with paediatric surgery, paediatric ENT, paediatric anaesthesiology, paediatric radiology and all disciplines represented at the clinic. The clinic is "excellent.FOR CHILDREN"
• Paediatric haematology and oncology:
  Certified paediatric oncology centre of the German Cancer Society. Participation in all co-operative clinical studies and registries in the field. Head of the register for rare tumour diseases in paediatrics. Expert in tumours of the gonads (testicles, ovaries). Holistic approach in paediatric oncology with a strong emphasis on psychosocial support for families through psycho-oncology, music, art and sports therapy as well as educational programmes.
• Neonatology
  One of the largest perinatal centres in Germany with particular expertise in the care of extremely immature premature babies and newborns with congenital malformations. Strong emphasis on psychosocial support for young families through psychology, early care and transfer to social-medical aftercare. Participation in the German network for premature babies
• Paediatric emergency medicine: 
  The paediatric clinic and its team staff the paediatric emergency ambulance and provide emergency care on site in more than 1200 missions every year
• Neuropaediatrics and social paediatrics:
  Holistic care for children and adolescents suffering from or at risk of disabilities in an interdisciplinary and multi-professional setting on the ward, in the social paediatric centre and in the interdisciplinary early intervention centre attached to the children's centre
• Child protection:
  Interdisciplinary and multi-professional child protection group for medical child protection care, in close cooperation with the youth welfare office and other youth welfare centres in Dortmund and the surrounding area

• Specialised paediatric and adolescent medicine: Wide range of inpatient and outpatient services in almost all paediatric specialisations, e.g. paediatric cardiology, paediatric gastroenterology, paediatric pulmonology, paediatric diabetology and endocrinology, etc.

   

Appointment

Since 2025
Professorship for Interdisciplinary Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Witten/Herdecke University

Since 2023
Deputy Medical Director, Klinikum Dortmund gGmbH

Since 2022
Member of the Medical Faculty at Witten/Herdecke University

2017 - 2020
Visiting Scientist, Charité Berlin, Paediatric Haematology and Oncology

2009
Appointment as Associate Professor, Medical Faculty of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Since 2007
Director of the Clinic for Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Westphalian Children's Centre, Klinikum Dortmund gGmbH

2006
Specialist designation: Paediatric haematology and oncology

2004
Appointment as university lecturer (C2) at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

2003
Postdoctoral university lecturing qualification and venia legendi in paediatrics at the Medical Faculty of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Topic of the postdoctoral thesis: Extragonadal germ cell tumours in children and adolescents - studies on histogenesis, genetics and clinic
Appointment as senior physician

2001 - 2003
Academic staff member at the Department of Paediatric Oncology, Haematology and Immunology, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

2001
Specialist in paediatrics and adolescent medicine

2000
Post-Doc Fellowship, Department of Pediatric Pathology, Institute of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, U.S.A.

1995 - 2001
Specialist training at the Centre for Paediatrics, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

1994 - 1995
Doctor in internship, Institute of Pathology, Medical University of Lübeck

Studies and training

1994
Doctoral studies on the topic "Myelodysplastic syndromes - histological criteria with prognostic relevance" (magna cum laude)

1994
United States Medical Licensing Examination, Step 1 and 2

1993
Medical examination (final grade 1.16)

1987 - 1993
Study of medicine in Cologne, Würzburg and Berlin
Elective Study, University of Edinburgh

1985 - 1987
Civilian service, Rehabilitation Centre of the University Hospitals Cologne

1985
Higher education entrance qualification, Städtisches Apostelgymnasium Cologne
 

Specialisations:

• Clinic.POL Paediatrics and adolescent medicine
• Paediatric and adolescent medicine practical block
• Mentor
• Supervision of scientific projects incl. doctoral studies

In continuing medical education:

• Scientific director of the paediatric and adolescent medicine revision course of the German Society for Paediatric and Adolescent Medicine (DGKJ)
• Head of the DGKJ's working group on further training courses
• Head of the German School of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology of the Society for Paediatric Oncology and Haematology (GPOH) for many years

• Member of the AG Teaching of the GPOH

   

• All topics in paediatrics and adolescent medicine
• Paediatric haematology and oncology (children's cancer), all topics
• Paediatrics for premature babies
• Children with congenital malformations
• Breast milk donor bank

• All health policy issues relating to hospital planning, further training, consideration of paediatrics in health policy reform processes

   

Prizes and awards

1980 and 1984
Federal prizewinner "Jugend musiziert"

2002
Judith Esser-Mittag Prize of the Association of Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology e.V.

2003
Brigid Leventhal Merit Award (Best Abstract in Pediatric Oncology) from the American Society of Clinical Oncology

2003
Award of the German Society for Paediatric Oncology and Haematology

2004
Poster Award (Best Poster in Biopathology) of the International Society of Pediatric Oncology