Organizational structure
Organization and committees of the DZKJ
Organizational structure
Organization and committees of the DZKJ
Structure in the start-up phase
Central governance structure
During the two-year start-up phase, the DZKJ will not yet be founded as an institution with its own legal form, but will be established as a research network. Selected structures of the planned governance concept ensure an orderly start of the cross-site DZKJ. The following committees and functions are initially planned:
Board of Directors (BOD)
The DZKJ has established a Board of Directors (BOD) for the scientific and operational management of the organisation. It consists of the directors of all seven partner sites and appoints a chair, currently Prof. Jutta Gärtner, and a vice chair, currently Prof. Klaus-Michael Debatin. The BOD is responsible for the implementation of the project and all administrative decisions (e.g. quality, procedures, deadlines, funding management, etc.). The majority principle applies; in the event of a tie, the chairperson has the casting vote.
Prof. Dr. med. Jutta Gärtner
DZKJ Chair and Site Director
University Medical Center Göttingen, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Prof. Dr. med. Klaus-Michael Debatin
DZKJ Vice Chair and Site Director
Ulm University, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Prof. Dr. med. Marcus A. Mall
Site Director
Department of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Immunology and Critical Care Medicine
Prof. Dr. rer. med. Neeltje van den Berg
Site Director
Institute for Community Medicine, Section Epidemiology of Health Care and Community Health
Prof. Dr. med. Ania C. Muntau
Site Director
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Prof. Dr. med. Antje Körner
Site Director
Leipzig University, Faculty of Medicine and University of Leipzig Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics
Prof. Dr. med. Dr. sci. nat. Christoph Klein
Site Director
Dr. von Hauner Children`s Hospital LMU München
Dr. jur. Anja Bratke
Patient representative
Ulm
Scientific Advisory Board (SAB)
The SAB consists of 12 external international experts representing the fields of basic research, clinical sciences, population and community health, social sciences and implementation in policy and practice, as well as a patient representative. The SAB appoints a chairperson and a vice chairperson. The members are proposed by the BOD and approved by all participating member organisations. It advises the BOD on scientific strategy and new research programmes. The committee is currently being set up.
M.D., PhD Rebecca Ahrens-Nicklas
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, USA
Dr. rer. nat. Gabriela Bopp
Patientenvertretung
Prof. Jesús Carretero Perez
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganés, Spain
M.D., M.H.S. Raphaela Goldbach-Mansky
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Prof. Dr. med. Georg Holländer
University of Basel and University Children’s Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
ETH Zurich, Basel, Switzerland
Prof. M.D. Eitan Kerem
Hadassah Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Prof. Dr. med. Barbara Plecko
Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
Prof. Jürgen Schwarze
The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Prof. Dr. med. Werner Seeger
University Hospital Giessen and Marburg, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, German Center for Lung Research
Prof. MA, MD, PhD Henning Tiemeier
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
Prof. Dr. Robert Verheij
National Health Care Institute, Diemen, the Netherlands
Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands
Prof. Dr. Daniel Weghuber
Chief Operating Officer (COO)
The central managing director, Dr. Doris Boden, MBA, supports all committees of the DZKJ, in particular the Executive Board. She is responsible for financial controlling, public relations, project management, quality and risk management. Ms. Boden is responsible for collaboration with cooperation partners, the publication database, property rights issues and contract management. She establishes project management (PM) as well as quality and risk management (QRM).
Structure in the start-up phase
Local governance at the DZKJ partner sites
All DZKJ partner sites will establish a local governance structure that includes the following elements: a site director, a vice site director, a site chief operating officer (site coordinator), a local steering committee and a local site assembly. The DZKJ partner sites can set up additional structures as required, for example working groups on local priority topics.
