Christian P. Speer (born 28 August 1952, in Kassel) is a German pediatrician and Professor of Pediatrics specialized in neonatology at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg.
In 1999, he accepted an appointment as Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the University Children's Hospital in Würzburg and worked in this capacity until his retirement in 2020.
[1] After basic work on the immune defense of newborns and the early detection of neonatal systemic infections,[5][6] Speer became part of the inner circle of the "European Collaborative Study Group on Surfactant Replacement" around Professors Bengt Robertson and Tore Curstedt, both Stockholm as well as Henry L. Halliday, Belfast.
In addition, he has regularly organized the international symposium "Recent Advances in Neonatal Medicine" since 1996.
[20] Speer received a number of international awards and is member in several scientific organizations:[2] Speer published more than 340 scientific papers in international and national journals and is the author of several book chapters on acute and chronic pulmonary diseases of premature and newborn infants.