Else Kröner-Senior Professor of Paediatrics at LMU – Ludwig Maximilians Universität Munich, Dept. Paediatrics, Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital, LMU University Hospitals, Munich, Germany
Trained in peadiatrics at Baragwanath Hospital, Johannesburg-Soweto, South Africa; Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center, Moshi, Tanzania; and the Children’s Hospitals of the Universities of Düsseldorf, Germany and Toronto, Canada
His work is focused on metabolic and nutritional modulators of child health and on disease prevention
Author of 1195 scientific journal articles, 252 book chapters, and 46 books/monographies (Web of Science H-index 101; 39,188 citations; Google Scholar H-index 145; 82,045 citations)
Editor in Chief of Ann Nutrition & Metabolism and of World Rev Nutrition & Dietetics, and Associate Editor of Curr Opin Clin Nutr Metabol Care and Monatsschrift Kinderheilkunde
President, European Academy of Paediatrics; Treasurer, Biomedical Alliance in Europe; and member of the Strategic Advisory Group on Nutrition of the International Pediatric Association; and the Committee on Nutrition of the German Society Paediatrics
Founder and Board Chair of the charitable Stiftung Kindergesundheit (Child Health Foundation) based at the Children’s Hospital, LMU University of Munich
The foundation successfully engages in science and evidence-based promotion of child health and disease prevention since 1997
