Julia von Oettingen

Dr. Julia von Oettingen is a pediatric endocrinologist at the Montreal Children's Hospital and Assistant Professor at McGill University. She obtained her MD (2008) and PhD (2009) degrees from the University of Leipzig medical school in Germany, and a master of medical sciences degree (2015) from Harvard Medical School. She completed her residency in pediatrics at the Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, and her fellowship in pediatric endocrinology at Boston Children's Hospital, both in Boston, USA. Dr. von Oettingen has been working in Liberia and Haiti to establish pediatric diabetes care, and is a site adviser to the International Diabetes Federation’s Life for a Child program in Liberia and Haiti. She is the founding medical director of a pediatric chronic care center in Haiti, and technical adviser for pediatric endocrinology to Partners in Health. Her clinical and research interests are diabetes and endocrine conditions in non-Caucasian populations, and chronic care delivery in resource limited settings. Dr. von Oettingen is fluent in German, English, French, Spanish and conversational in Portuguese, Persian and Creole.

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