Professional education:
1986 MD degree, University of Amsterdam, medical school
1988-1993 Specialty training in Pediatrics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam and St. Elisabeth Hospital, Curaçao, The Netherlands Antilles
1999-2002 Fellowship Neonatology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam
Employment history:
1986-1988 Medical investigator, dept. of Medical Physics, University of Amsterdam Resident in Cardiology, Free University Hospital, Amsterdam
Resident in Pediatrics, Emma Children’s Hospital, Amsterdam
1988-1993 Resident in training for Pediatrics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam and St. Elisabeth Hospital, Curaçao, The Netherlands Antilles
1993-1999 Pediatrician, Red Cross Hospital and Burn Centre, Beverwijk, The Netherlands
1999-2002 Fellow Neonatology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam
2002–2003 Pediatrician/neonatologist, St. Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands
2003 – 2009 Pediatrician/neonatologist, level IIB neonatal unit, OLVG Hospital, Amsterdam (Teaching Hospital of the University of Amsterdam)
2010 Sabbatical year with working visits to Pediatric Emergency Departments in Canada (Alberta Children’s Hospital, Calgary and Stollery Children’s Hospital, Edmonton)
2010-2018 Pediatrician, emergency department, OLVG Hospital, Amsterdam (Teaching Hospital of the University of Amsterdam)
Other functions:
• Member “Taskforce on procedural sedation and analgesia (PSA) in children”, Dutch Pediatric Association.
• Chairman “Committee on pain management in children”, OLVG Hospital, Amsterdam.
• Member “Committee on procedural sedation”, OLVG Hospital, Amsterdam
• Chairman “Committee on identification and management of child abuse”, OLVG Hospital, Amsterdam.
• Instructor, national course “Nitrous oxide sedation in children”, Amsterdam