Dr Florian Götzinger

Main research areas & clinical expertise:
Tuberculosis in children and adolescents
Migrant health
Echinococcosis

Biography
Dr. Florian Götzinger re-joined the Department of Paediatric and Adolescent Health of Klinik Ottakring and the National Reference Centre for Childhood Tuberculosis in 2019, after working in the United Kingdom as a Senior Clinical Fellow in Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology and finishing his postgraduate diploma in Paediatric Infectious Diseases at the University of Oxford (2017). Since 2020 he is programme director for Paediatric Infectious Diseases for the Vienna Healthcare Group. His main research interests are tuberculosis in children, migrant health and echinococcosis. In addition, he has a strong interest in respiratory infections in children and was first author of the first clinical multi-centre study on COVID-19 in children outside China, which has been cited more than 1500 times to date and is one of the most highly cited papers published in The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health.

Dr. Florian Götzinger studied medicine in Austria (Vienna Medical University) and France (Université Bordeaux – II). From 2014 he has been working clinically in Paediatrics and Paediatric Infectious Diseases. Prior to relocating to Vienna worked as a senior clinical fellow (Specialist Registrar 3 level) in Paediatric Infectious Diseases & Immunology at the Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Guy’s & St. Thomas NHS Foundation Trust. Currently, he is visiting professor at the Vienna Medical University, and the co-ordinator of undergraduate medical student education at the Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Health of Klinik Ottakring.

He was awarded a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Travel Medicine (Bernhard Nocht Institute, Hamburg, Germany) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Paediatric Infectious Diseases (University of Oxford, UK).

He is currently the elected Secretary of the Paediatric Tuberculosis Network European Trials Group (ptbnet), the chair of the division for transcultural paediatrics and the deputy chair of the working group for infectious diseases of the Austrian Society of Paediatrics. He was country representative for the Austrian ministry of health at the last two WHO Europe workshops on childhood tuberculosis (2017, 2019) and a member of the WHO technical advisory group for safe schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020 – 2022). Furthermore, he was member of the Austrian high council of health during the COVID-19 pandemic (Covid-19 treatment group and Long COVID group), advising the Ministry of Health.

Selected Publications:

Topitz D, Rothensteiner M, Baier-Grabner S, Langthaler M, Reithmayr S, Zacharasiewicz A, Hotz J, Tebruegge M, Lagler H, Götzinger F. Cystic Echinococcosis in Paediatric Refugees: A Case Series. Klin Padiatr 2024. (in press) doi: 10.1055/a-2417-6711.

Jorda A, Ensle D, Eser H, Glötzl F, Riedl B, Szell M, Valipour A, Zoufaly A, Wenisch C, Haider D, Burgmann H, Thalhammer F, Götzinger F, Jilma B, Ristl R, Karnthaler U, Zeitlinger M.
Real-world effectiveness of nirmatrelvir-ritonavir and molnupiravir in non-hospitalised adults with Covid-19: a population-based, retrospective cohort study cohort study.
Clin Microbiol Infect 2024; S1198-743X (24) 00508-1.

Rodríguez-Molino P, Tebruegge M, Noguera-Julian A, Neth O, Fidler K, Brinkmann F, Sainz T, Ivaskeviciene I, Ritz N, Brito MJ, Milheiro Silva T, Chechenieva V, Serdiuk M, Lancella L, Russo C, Soler-García A, Navarro ML, Krueger R, Feiterna-Sperling C, Starshinova A, Hiteva A, Hoffmann A, Kalibatas P, Lo Vecchio A, Scarano SM, Bustillo M, Blázquez Gamero D, Espiau M, Buonsenso D, Falcón L, Turnbull L, Colino E, Rueda S, Buxbaum C, Carazo B, Alvarez C, Dapena M, Piqueras A, Velizarova S, Ozere I, Götzinger F, Pareja M, Garrote Llanos MI, Soto B, Rodríguez Martín S, Korta JJ, Pérez-Gorricho B, Herranz M, Hernández-Bartolomé Á, Díaz-Almirón M, Kohns Vasconcelos M, Ferreras-Antolín L, Santiago-García B. Tuberculosis disease in immunocompromised children and adolescents: a Pediatric Tuberculosis Network European Trials Group multicenter case-control study. Clin Infect Dis 2024; 79(1): 215-222.

Haas M, Fürhacker P, Hodek J, Stangl P, Alon I, Kainz K, Fajgelj V, Mädel C, Dotzler S, Götzinger F, Ulrychová L, Preuner S, Fortschegger M, Schinnerl D, Walter C, Obrova K, Weber J, Zacharasiewicz A, Lion T. Detection of viable SARS-CoV-2 on the hands of hospitalized children with COVID-19. Clin Microbiol Infect 2023; 29(9): 1211-1213.

Buonsenso D, Noguera-Julian A, Moroni R, Hernández-Bartolomé A, Fritschi N, Lancella L, Cursi L, Soler-Garcia A, Krüger R, Feiterna-Sperling C, Sali M, Lo Vecchio A, Scarano S, Hernanz Lobo A, Espiau M, Soriano-Arandes A, Cetin BS, Brinkmann F, Ozere I, Baquero-Artigao F, Tsolia M, Milheiro Silva T, Bustillo-Alonso M, Martín Nalda A, Mancini M, Starshinova A, Ritz N, Velizarova S, Ferreras-Antolín L, Götzinger F, Bilogortseva O, Chechenyeva V, Tebruegge M, Santiago-García B; ptbnet QFT-Plus study group. Performance of QuantiFERON-TB Gold Plus assays in paediatric tuberculosis: a multicentre PTBNET study. Thorax 2023; 78(3): 288-296.

Rau C, Auer-Hackenberg L, Deubzer HE, Schwabel E, Jaros M, Diederichs A, Lehrnbecher T, Holm M, von Linstow ML, Martin L, Dinges SS, Rothensteiner M, Siepermann M, Strenger V, von Both U, Teig N, Brinkmann F, Leeb F, Zeitlinger M, Kobbe R, Götzinger F. Treatment of infants and children with SARS-CoV-2 monoclonal antibodies: a European case series. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2023;42(2):125-129.

Thee S, Basu Roy R, Blázquez-Gamero D, Falcón-Neyra L, Neth O, Noguera-Julian A, Lillo C, Galli L, Venturini E, Buonsenso D, Götzinger F, Martinez-Alier N, Velizarova S, Brinkmann F, Welch SB, Tsolia M, Santiago-Garcia B, Schilling R, Tebruegge M, Krüger R; ptbnet TB Meningitis Study Group. Treatment and outcome in children with tuberculous meningitis: a multicenter Paediatric Tuberculosis Network European Trials Group Study. Clin Infect Dis 2022; 75(3): 372-381.

Götzinger F, Santiago-García B, Noguera-Julián A, Lanaspa M, Lancella L, Calò Carducci FI, Gabrovska N, Velizarova S, Prunk P, Osterman V, Krivec U, Lo Vecchio A, Shingadia D, Soriano-Arandes A, Melendo S, Lanari M, Pierantoni L, Wagner N, L’Huillier AG, Heininger U, Ritz N, Bandi S, Krajcar N, Roglić S, Santos M, Christiaens C, Creuven M, Buonsenso D, Welch SB, Bogyi M, Brinkmann F, Tebruegge M; ptbnet COVID-19 Study Group. COVID-19 in children and adolescents in Europe: a multinational, multicentre cohort study. Lancet Child Adolesc Health 2020; 4(9): 653-661.

Noguera-Julian A, Calzada-Hernández J, Brinkmann F, Basu Roy R, Bilogortseva O, Buettcher M, Carvalho I, Chechenyeva V, Falcón L, Goetzinger F, Guerrero-Laleona C, Hoffmann P, Jelusic M, Niehues T, Ozere I, Shackley F, Suciliene E, Welch SB, Schölvinck EH, Ritz N, Tebruegge M. Tuberculosis disease in children and adolescents on therapy with antitumor necrosis factor-ɑ agents: a collaborative, multicenter Paediatric Tuberculosis Network European Trials Group (ptbnet) Study. Clin Infect Dis 2020; 71(10): 2561-2569.

Basu Roy R, Thee S, Blázquez-Gamero D, Falcón-Neyra L, Neth O, Noguera-Julian A, Lillo C, Galli L, Venturini E, Buonsenso D, Götzinger F, Martinez-Alier N, Velizarova S, Brinkmann F, Welch SB, Tsolia M, Santiago-Garcia B, Krüger R, Tebruegge M; ptbnet TB Meningitis Study Group. Performance of immune-based and microbiological tests in children with tuberculosis meningitis in Europe: a multicentre Paediatric Tuberculosis Network European Trials Group (ptbnet) study. Eur Respir J 2020; 56(1): 1902004.