Priv.-Doz. Dr Melanie Kapapa M.A.

12/2003

Licence to practice medicine

03/2004

Doctorate

01/2012

Specialist for paediatric surgery

10/2015

Senior consultant in the paediatric surgery section, Ulm University Hospital

05/ 2019

Child protection certificate (paediatrician); DGKiM

08/2020

Master of Arts "Medical ethics

12/2020-07/2021

Coordinator of the Central Vaccination Centre for Ulm University Hospital

08/2021

Senior physician

since 08/2021

Corporate Development and Communication Unit, Ulm University Hospital

02/2011

Scholarship for severe burn care, DGKCH

07/2016

Poster Prize, International Neonatology Association Conference, Vienna, Austria

10/2016

Scholarship Hertha Nathorff Programme

09/2019

ProTrainU scholarship from the University of Ulm

 

07/2010

"Qualified implementation of a paediatric and adolescent gynaecology consultation", certificate from AG Kinder- und Jugendgynäkologie e.V.

since 03/2016

Interdisciplinary consultation for variants of sex development (DSD) Centre for Rare Diseases, ZSE

08/2019

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) intensive course at the "Desert Flower Centre" Waldfriede Hospital, Berlin

since 09/2019

Head of the interdisciplinary child protection group at Ulm University Hospital

since 08/2021

Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) consultation hours in cooperation with the Institute of Forensic Medicine and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Ulm University Hospital

    • Risk factors of congenital malformations
    • Outcome and quality of life after surgical interventions in paediatric surgery

    Paediatric Global Surgery

    Cooperation project: "Improve of care and survival of newborns with surgical conditions in Tanzania- Gastroschisis"

    Donation account

    Account holder: Ulm University Hospital

    Bank: Sparkasse Ulm

    IBAN: DE166 305 0000 0000 106 478

    BIC: SOLADES1ULM

    Purpose: D.6885 Donation Global Paediatric Surgery Dr Kapapa

    1. Felies M, von Horsten S, Pabst R, Nave H. Neuropeptide Y stabilises body temperature and prevents hypotension in endotoxaemic rats, J Physiol. 2004 Nov 15; 561(Pt 1):245-52.
    2. Arnold H, Bumann D, Felies M, Gewecke B, Sorensen M, Gessner JE, Freihorst J, von Specht BU, Baumann U., Enhanced immunogenicity in the murine airway mucosa with an attenuated Salmonella live vaccine expressing prF-OprI from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Infect Immun. 2004 Nov; 72 (11):6546-53.
    3. Nave H, Bedoui S, Moenter F, Steffens J, Felies M, Gebhardt T, Straub RH, Pabst R, Dimitrijevic M, Stanojevic S, von Horsten S., Reduced tissue immigration of monocytes by neuropeptide Y during endotoxemia is associated with Y2 receptor activation. J Neuroimmunol. 2004 Oct; 155 (1-2):1-12.
    4. Felies M, Poppendieck S, Nave. H. Perioperative normothermia depends on intraoperative warming procedure, extent of the surgical intervention and age of the experimental animal, Life Sci. 77 (2005) 3133-3140.
    5. Kapapa Th., Woischnek D., Kapapa M., Grimm Ch., Röhrer St., Schlötzer W., Schmitz B., Wirtz C.R., Rickels E. The craniocerebral trauma in childhood, CHAZ, 11th year, 10th issue, 549-555, 2010
    6. Kapapa M., Partial resection and grinding initially failed: Giant nevus only recedes with a scalpel, MMA, Medical Tribune Austria- 43rd year - No. 11/2011
    7. Poppendieck S., Kapapa M., Haas P., Kielstein H. Prolonged postsurgical recovery period and adverse effects of a leptin application in endotoxemic obese rodents. Life Sci. 2013 Jun 22: p0024-3205(13)00342-1.
    8. Pal'a A, Kapapa M, Posovszky C, Röderer G, König R, Woischneck D, Wirtz CR, Kapapa T. Head Injury in Children: Has a Change in Circumstances Caused an Increase in Treatment Numbers?; J Child Neurol. 2014 Nov 4. pii: 0883073814554655
    9. Pal'a A., Kapapa M., Posovszky C., Röderer G., Wirtz C.R., Kapapa T., Prevention is the key to avoiding traumatic brain injury in childhood; Prevention and Health Promotion - February 2016, DOI: 10.1007/s11553-016-0530-9
    10. Kapapa T., Kapapa M., Posovszky C., Gülke J., König R., Woischneck D., Wirtz C. R., Pala A.; Pediatric Head Injury: The Incidence of Multiple Injuries, Journal of Behavioural and Brain Science, 2016, 6, 254-267
    11. Kapapa M., Rieg T, Henne-Bruns D, Serra A. Risk factors for abdominal wall defects. Congenital Anomalies 2019; 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1111/cga.12336
    12. Niklas Gaebler, Benedikt Haggenmüller, Melanie Kapapa, Alexandre Serra, Daniel Tews, Jan-Bernd Funcke, Stephanie Brandt, Valentin Ioannidis, Michael Schön, Peter Möller, Klaus-Michael Debatin, Martin Wabitsch and Pamela Fischer-Posovszky, Age- and BMI-Associated Expression of Angiogenic Factors in White Adipose Tissue of Children, Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2019, 20(20), 5204; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms20205204
    13. Kapapa M, Becker N, Serra A.Risk factors for anorectal and associated malformations in German children: a 10-year analysis, Pediatrics & Neonatology; 2020; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pedneo.2020.09.008
    14. Kapapa M, Rieg T, Serra A. Does meconium contaminated amniotic fluid affect intestinal wall thickness and functional outcome in patients with anterior abdominal wall defects? Afr J Paediatr Surg. 2022 Jan-Mar;19(1):46-51. https://doi:10.4103/ajps.AJPS_8_20
    15. Kapapa M., Esswein K., Serra A. 10-Year Analysis of Pediatric Blunt Abdominal Trauma: Accident Mechanisms and Prevention. Prog Asp in Pediatric & Neonat 3(4)- 2022

    German Society for Paediatric Surgery (DGKCH)

    German Society for Child Protection in Medicine (DGKiM)

    Society for Tropical Paediatrics and International Child Health (GTP) e.V.

    Working Group for Paediatric and Adolescent Gynaecology e.V.

    Scientific Advisory Board PÄD Practical Paediatrics