Edward Nieuwenhuis

Edward Nieuwenhuis

prof. dr.

    1999 …2025

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    Biography

    Edward Nieuwenhuis, pediatrician, obtained a PhD in mucosal immunology (Prof. Blumberg, Harvard University and Prof. Heijnen, Utrecht University). He became a paediatric gastroenterologist, focusing     on the innate immunesystem in Inflammatory Bowel Disease. His work includes the development of a enterocolitis model in Zebrafish. His current research focuses on IBD, somatic stemcells, epithelial biology and genetics.

    In 2009, Edward Nieuwenhuis was appointed as Chairman of the Paediatrics Division of the Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital Utrecht , The Netherlands. In 2010, he was also appointed as Chairman of the    leading program (speerpunt) Child Health of  the University Medical Center Utrecht.

    During this period, the Hospital has established strong alliances with medical centers and research institutes in the Netherlands (e.g. Maxima, national center for pediatric oncology, Hubrecht institute for developmental biology & stem cell research) and abroad (e.g. Boston Children’s, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Hospital Pablo Tobon Uribe, Medellin).

    His goal is to build an integrated academic Children’s Hospital which provides health care, medical training and science of excellent standards.

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    2016- Member Advocacy committee on Child Health, Dutch Society of Pediatrics

    2016- Member Advisory Board of the Utrecht University Hospital, Chairing Patient management

    2016- Head collaboration program Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital and Hospital Pablo Tobón

    Uribe, Medellin, Colombia

    2016-2018 Member of the Board of Supervision Youth Protection Brabant, The Netherlands

    2015- Staff scientist at Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

    2011-2015 Medical Advisor Health Council of the Netherlands (RGO)

    2019- Training and accreditation in family constellations (Phoenix training programs, the Netherlands)

    2010-juli 2015 Chairman and founder leading program ‘Child Health’, Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital/UMC,

    Utrecht

     

    1992-1993 Student member faculty board, Medical School, University of Amsterdam

    1992-1993 Electoral Committee for Associate professors, Medical School, University of Amsterdam

    1997-1998 Reorganizational Committee, Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, Utrecht

    2003 Internal member of the site visit committee for the application for renewal of the Post

    Graduate School of Medicine, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam

    2003 Chair CD1-NKT session 12th International Congress of Mucosal Immunology, Boston, USA

    2004-2009 Research Committee Erasmus MC-Sophia Children’s Hospital, Rotterdam

    2005-2009 Working Group Pediatric Allergic Diseases

    2006-2009 Chairman Committee on Clinical Nutrition Erasmus MC-Sophia Children’s Hospital

    2006-2009 Consultant for the International Immunity Advisory Board of Royal Numico

    2006-2009 Member Steering Committee for the Masters of Science program ‘Infection and Immunity’,

    Erasmus University, Rotterdam

    2007-2011 Scientific Advisor Committee for primary child care in the Netherlands

    2008-2009 Board member, MRACE, Erasmus University advisory committee

    2008-2014 Founder, CEO & CSO LipImmune

    2010- Member of the Board, Wilhelmina Research Fund, Utrecht

    2009 Member of the Local Board, Ronald McDonald House, Utrecht

    2010-2015 Scientific Advisor Nutricia

    2010-2015 Scientific Advisor Friso

    2011-2013 Scientific Advisor International Congress of Mucosal Immunology, Paris, France

    2011-2015 Medical Advisor Health Council of the Netherlands (RGO)

    2011-2015 Editor-in-Chief Pediatric Journal ‘Kinderarts & Wetenschap’ (Pediatrician & Science)

    2011- Chief Editor ‘Leerboek Kindergeneeskunde’ (Pediatrics, Dutch manual)

    2021- Steering Committee AWOZ (Academische Werkplaats Ouderenzorg Zeeland)

     

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    2022 Board of Trustees Zorgsaam (health provider) Terneuzen, Zeeland

    External positions

    Raad van Toezicht - gezondheidszorg - Zorgsaam Terneuzen

    1 Feb 202231 Dec 3999

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