Professional Background &
Medical Expertise
Dr. Dorothea Schlesinger
Specialist and additional designation
- Specialist in Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Diabetology
- Osteologist DVO
- Health economist
Professional experience/medical activity
- 10/2006- 09/2007
Practical year at the University of Sydney, University of Queensland (Australia) and Weimar10/2006- 09/2007Practical year at the University of Sydney, University of Queensland (Australia) and Weimar - 2/2008-1/2011
Doctor at the University of Queensland, Australia, Mater Hospital, Caboolture Hospital. Appropriation of sound internal knowledge (cardiological, oncological, nephrological, pulmunological stations) - 04/2011-01/2012
Doctor at the Department of Internal Medicine with a focus on endocrinology and metabolic diseases at the University Hospital Jena (Prof. Dr. Müller) - 02/2012-10/2013
Doctor at the Department of Internal Medicine with a focus on endocrinology and metabolic diseases at the University Hospital Erlangen (Mentor: Prof. Dr. Christof Schöfl) - 10/2013-08/2015
Research project/doctor at the University of Sydney, research into the mechanisms of parathyroid secretion from the parathyroid gland - 02/2014
Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (FRACP) Exam (Australian Specialist Exam) - 09/2015–03/2019
Employee doctor at the Endocrinological Community Practice Happ-Santen-Engelbach in Frankfurt am Main - Since 04/2019
Employee doctor at PD Dr. Roughaw, Nuclear Medicine and Endocrinology Aschaffenburg - 10/2020–06/2021
Intensive study Health Economics (45. Year) at the EBS Executive School
Higher education
- 10/2000- 10/2007
Medical studies at the Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena - 10/2003-11/2011
Doctorate at the Institute of Pathology, Working Group Immunopathology of FSU Jena with Professor Dr. Brower
Topic of the dissertation: "Induction and functional characterization of tolerogenic dendritic cells"
Promotion with "magna cum laude" - Scholarship holder of the IZKF (Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research)
Topic of the research project: "Suppression of established immune responses with tolerogenic dendritic cells"
Continuing education
- Harvard Medical School
Testosterone Therapy and Sexual Dysfunction January 2026 - Harvard Medical School
Clinical Endocrinology Update 2926 March 2026 (view certificate) - Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic Endocrine Update January 2026 (view certificate ) - Mayo Clinic
22nd Annual Women's Health Update March 2026 (view certificate) - Oxford
Clinical Training Course 2026 (view certificate) - ESA Seminar
The Annual Endocrine Society of Australia Seminar 2026 (view certificate)
Scientific commitment
- Poster presentation
"Suppression of established immune responses by tolerogenic dendritic cells" at the International Congress for Dendritic Cells in Bruges, Belgium (2004) - Scholarship of the Boeringer Inngelheim Fund for the research project with Prof. R. Thomas
"Molecular Mechanisms of the Regulation of Expression of Toll like Receptors", Princess Alexandra Hospitalm Diamantina Institue Brisbane, Australia - Publication in Journal Clinical Endocrinology Metabolism
A Homozygous CaSR Mutation Causing a FHH Phenotype Completely Masked by Vitamin D Deficiency Presenting as Rickets. JCEM, June 2014 - Poster presentation
"An Intrinsic Mechanism of Parathyroid Hormone Secretion Based on Prostanoid EP4 and IP1 Receptors," Endocrine Society Meeting in San Diego, 2015
Memberships
- Endocrine Society