Joost Frenkel is a professor of pediatrics with a focus on family and patient centered education

He is a distinguished medical teacher with ample experience in development and provision of education to medical students residents and faculty.

He is an experienced pediatrician with a profound interest and expertise in autoinflammatory diseases.

These are disorders in which the innate inflammatory response runs out of control.

For these rare patients Frenkel leads an (inter)national clinical, genetic and research reference center.

Research has focused on the hyper IgD periodic fever syndrome due to mevalonate kinase deficiency.

International collaboration includes the Eurofever network and the international association for autoinflammatory diseases, as well as bilateral collaboration with the NIH.

• Member scientific board Eurofever
• Member scientific board International Society for Autoinflammatory Diseases
• Member of advisory board to Novartis Pharma on autoinflammatory diseases
• Member of the Dutch pediatric residency council (consilium paediatricum)
• Member of ERN RITA
• Member of the national steering committee for pediatric neurology subspecialization.

Potential Conflicts of Interest

Dr. Frenkel has regular interaction with pharmaceutical and other industrial partners. He has not received any personal fees or other personal benefits.

UMCU received minor funding (€1,000-10,000 per industrial partner) for consultation and invited lectures by Novartis and SOBI