Jörn-Hendrik Weitkamp, MD

Jörn-Hendrik Weitkamp, MD, is currently Associate Professor of Pediatrics and attending physician in the Division of Neonatology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt in Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. Weitkamp received his medical degree summa cum laude from the University of Ulm in Germany and completed his residency in Pediatrics at the University Hospital of Bonn in Germany and Vanderbilt University Medical Center. He subsequently completed fellowships in Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Perinatal-Neonatal Medicine at Vanderbilt. The focus of Dr. Weitkamp’s research and scholarly work has been in neonatal immunology, neonatal infectious disease and necrotizing enterocolitis. He is specifically interested in the prenatal influences on the developing immune system. As the Director for Patient-Oriented Research, Dr. Weitkamp oversees numerous clinical trials and translational studies in neonatology. He is also vice-chair of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) and Director of the Vanderbilt Neonatal Medicine Annual Symposium. Dr. Weitkamp has published over 70 journal articles, reviews and book chapters and earned several honors and awards including the Vanderbilt Physician Scientist Development Award, the Vanderbilt Infection Prevention Award, and the Marshall Klaus Perinatal Research Award. Dr. Weitkamp is a member of the Society for Pediatric Research, and the Perinatal Research Society. He has served on several international and NIH study sections and chairs the Research Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine.