Theo Verheij
    • Heidelberglaan 100, UMC Utrecht

      3584 CX Utrecht

      Netherlands

    1989 …2025

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    Biography

    After his medical training at the Leiden University Medical Center, Theo Verheij worked as general practitioner in Noordwijk from 1987 to 1997. He got his PhD at Leiden University in 1995 after writing a thesis on Acute Bronchitis in General Practice. In 1997 he was appointed full professor of general practice at the UMC Utrecht. His focus of research is infectious diseases in primary care and antibiotic use in outpatients. Until now he supervised 25 PhD students and co-authored 208 peer-reviewed papers (H-index 32). He was and still is involved in the implementation of research in clinical practice for instance by contributing to guidelines on infectious diseases and by advising on monitoring and improving antibiotic use in the Netherlands and Europe. He combines his scientific work with part-time clinical work at one of the academic primary care health centres of the Julius Center, UMC Utrecht.

    Side activities

    Member on the funding committee for infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance of the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development
    Member of the Research Committee Prevention and Care of the Dutch Lung
    Foundation
    Member of the International Advisory Board of the British Journal of General Practice
    Member of the board of the Dutch Working Party on Antibiotic Policy 
    Adviser of the Coordination Group of the European Surveillance of Antimicrobial
    Member of the Consumption Network of the ECDC (European Centre of Disease Prevention and Control)
    Member of the steering committee of TRACE (Translational Research on Antimicrobial resistance and Community-acquired infections in Europe)
    Member of the Supervisory Board of IZER, a large cooperative of GPs in Rotterdam

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