Wolfgang Klietmann

Who is Wolfgang Klietmann?

Wolfgang Klietmann is a clinical pathologist and medical microbiologist and serves at Harvard Medical School faculty as an appointed Lecturer on Pathology. He is considered a leading expert in the areas of infectious diseases and biodefense.

Previously, Klietmann was head of the Department of Pathology at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Prior to his immigration to the United States in 1992, Klietmann founded and was President/Physician-in-Chief of the Institute of Laboratory Medicine in Düsseldorf Germany a highly recognized institution in terms of the number and quality of scientific publications it generated, and held significant scientific standing for innovative diagnostics among private laboratories in Germany. The company was bought out in the early 1990s by Bioscientia, a subsidiary of Boehringer-Ingelheim.

Klietmann received executive business education in the Owner-President Management Program at Harvard Business School. He received his medical education at the University of Freiburg, and at the Sorbonne and the University of Paris Medical School. He performed postdoctoral research work at The Wistar Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. For five years, Klietmann headed a research group at the Max-Planck-Institute for Virus Research in Tübingen, and served on the medical faculty of the University of Tübingen until receiving his academic appointment at Harvard Medical School.