Chronic inflammation in childhood

Prof.  Dr. med. Tilmann Kallinich studied human medicine at the University of Tübingen and the Humboldt University in Berlin. This was interrupted for a study of “Molecular and Cellular Biology” at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

After graduation, he worked as a post-doc in the department of “Molecular Immunology” at the Robert Koch Institute.

He completed his further training as a specialist in pediatrics as well as in rheumatology and pneumology at the Charité Children’s Hospital. Since 2010, he has headed the section for rheumatology and autoimmune diseases there.

Scientifically, Tilmann Kallinich focuses on the pathomechanisms and management of monogenic autoinflammatory diseases as well as juvenile idiopathic arthritis. Since 2019, he is leading the Liasongroup “Chronic Inflammation in Childhood” at the German Rheumatism Research Center

• Since 2023 extraordinary professorship at Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin in the Department of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Immunology and Critical Care Medicine
• since 2019
  Head of the Liasongroup “Chronic Inflammation in Childhood” at the German Rheumatism Research Center and Fellow of the Berlin Institute of Health
• since 2012
  Senior specialist supervision in the emergency department, the intermediate admission ward and the ward for pneumological, allergological, rheumatological, infectious and immunological clinical pictures.
• since 2012
  Senior specialist supervision in the emergency department, the intermediate admission ward and the ward for pneumological, allergological, rheumatological, infectious and immunological clinical pictures.
  Head of the Liasongroup “Chronic Inflammation in Childhood” at the German Rheumatism Research Center and Fellow of the Berlin Institute of Health
• since Aug. 2010
  Head of the section “Rheumatology
• since Aug. 2007
  Main focus on the care of children with rheumatic diseases
• Dec. 1998 – Sep. 1999
  and Aug. 2001 – July 2007
  Clinical activity as a physician in internship and assistant physician on various
  different wards of the pediatric clinic of the Charité, University Medicine Berlin
• Oct. 1997 – Nov. 1999
  and Oct. 1999 – July 2001
  Worked as a research assistant in the department “Molecular Immunology” of the Robert Koch Institute (Head Prof. R.A. Kroczek)

• March 2023
  Extraordinary Professorship at the Faculty of Medicine at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
• March 2019
  Additional qualification in pediatric pneumology
• June 2010
  Additional qualification in pediatric and adolescent rheumatology
• Jan. 2010
  Habilitation in pediatric and adolescent medicine
• May 2007
  Specialist in pediatric and adolescent medicine
• Apr. 1999
  Approbation
• Aug. 1997
  Doctorate (Dr. med.), rating “summa cum laude