The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada
Dr. Ute Bartels is a Staff Neuro-Oncologist at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto and Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto. She graduated from medical school at Johannes Wolfgang von Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany. Dr. Bartels completed her PhD thesis at the Children’s Hospital of the University in Mainz, Germany, where she trained in Paediatrics and specialized in neonatology and paediatric haematology/oncology.
In 2002, she joined the Hospital for Sick Children for a fellowship in paediatric neuro-oncology and became a staff physician in 2005. She was the acting section head of the program during the director’s sabbatical in 2007-2008 and 2017-2018. Dr. Bartels received the Junior Faculty Award for Clinical Excellence in Paediatric Medical Care in 2009. She completed a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Toronto in 2010. She is an active member of the Central Nervous System (CNS) Committee of the Children’s Oncology Group (COG) in North America and has been a Principal Investigator of the CNS Germ Cell Tumour study (ACNS1123). She is a member of the International Tuberous Sclerosis Complex (TSC) Consensus Group. She was co-chairwoman of the European Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOPe) craniopharyngioma working group from 2011 to 2020. She is engaged in the development of paediatric neuro-oncology education in countries with limited resources especially but not limited to the Caribbean and Latin- and South America.