Dr Brigitte Vollmer MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Neonatal and Paediatric Neurology, Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Neurology
Brigitte Vollmer is an Associate Professor of Neonatal and Paediatric Neurology.
Brigitte Vollmer joined the University of Southampton in August 2010 as a Senior Lecturer in Paediatric Neurology with a special interest in neonatal neurology, neurodevelopment, and neuroimaging.
Having graduated from medical school at the Eberhard-Karls-University, Tuebingen, Germany, she trained as a Paediatrician and then as a Paediatric Neurologist at the Children´s Hospital, University of Tuebingen, Germany.
Subsequently, she moved to the UCL Institute of Child Health/Great Ormond Street Hospital and University College London Hospitals, London, to receive clinical specialist and research training in neonatal neurology and in neurodevelomental follow-up of infants born at risk. Her PhD studies focused on neuroimaging investigations of brain structure –function relationships in preterm infants.
After having been awarded a Marie-Curie Fellowship she moved to Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, for postdoctoral studies, which were focused on different aspects of neurodevelopment, in particular, motor development, and associations with brain structure as assessed with qualitative and quantitative magnetic resonance imaging methods in children with unilateral cerebral palsy and children born extremely preterm.
The focus of her research is to investigate relationships between brain development and long term neurological and neurodevelopmental function in different groups of children who were born at high risk and/or have suffered adverse events in the peri/neonatal period that could result in brain damage of different degree.
Brigitte Vollmer is an Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Neurology at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust and works closely with the neonatology team and the fetal medicine team at Princess Anne Hospital.
Qualifications
Medical Sciences “Staatsexamen” (graduation from medical school), Eberhard-Karls-University Tuebingen, Germany, 1990
MD (medical doctorate, Dr.med), Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tuebingen, Germany, 1993
PhD, University College London, Institute of Child Health 2008
Appointments held
Senior Lecturer in Paediatric and Neonatal Neurology, Hon. Consultant in Paediatric Neurology at University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust.
Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.