Professor Jan Nijhuis
Professor Nijhuis received his PhD in 1984, based on
his work on fetal behaviour. He became an
obstetrician in 1987, but worked also with Professors
Hanson and Dawes in Reading, UK from 1978 to
1988. He is an honorary member of the Academic Staff
of the University of Reading UK. In 1993 he received
the ”De Snoo van ’t Hoogerhuijs” award for perinatal
research. In 2008 he was announced as “topspecialist in Ob/Gyn” in the Netherlands, based on a
national enquiry among Dutch specialists. In 1999 he
was appointed as Professor in Obstetrics at the
Maastricht University Medical Center, and became
Head of the Department for Ob/Gyn. Since 2008 he
has also served as the Director of the Centre for
Genetics, Reproduction and Child Health, Intensive
Care and Cancer with a total operating budget of 50
million Euro and 750 employees (600 FTE). From
2003 he was President-elect, and from 2005-2007
President of the Dutch Society of Obstetrics and
Gynaecology (NVOG). He is a member of the Dutch
Health Council, the Dutch “Perinatal Audit” committee
and he is the representative for The Netherlands in the “Euro-Peristat-working group” on
perinatal mortality in the EU.