General Information
Ivo de Blaauw was born in Amsterdam and studied medicin at the Radboud
University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He first did a residency in surgery and
tropical medicin and worked for Medicine sans Frontiere (MSF) at Mekele General
Hospital in Ethiopia. After returning to the Netherlands he worked for 4 years in a
laboratory to write a thesis on protein and amino acid metabolism in cancer at the
Maastricht University. He continued his surgical career in Eindhoven, Maastricht and
Nijmegen, where he started to work as pediatric surgeon at the Amalia Children’s
Hospital-Radboudumc. For two years he worked temporarely at the Sophia
Children’s Hospital in Rotterdam with a focus on pediatric colorectal surgery. Since
2014 he is the head of the pediatric surgical department of the Amalia Children’s
Hospital-Radboudumc Nijmegen. The department is center of expertise and referral
center for colorectal disesaeses, diafragmatic hernia’s and ECMO treatment, and
vascular malformations.
His teaching career for the last 5 years includes several teaching courses for
medical students (Erasmus MC University, Rotterdam and Radboud university
medical center, Nijmegen), resident nurses, surgical residents. He is furthermore
involved as active member of several international teaching courses for pediatric
surgeons. These are focused on anorectal malformations and Hirschsprung’s
Disease. Courses have been given in Ethiopia, South Africa, Ghana, Moskow and
will be given in Costa Rica and Thailand.
Besides his early research on amino acid and protein metabolism in the cancer, he
now focuses his research on general pediatric surgery and specifically on pediatric
colorectal diseases. His research is on the etiology of ARM and Hirschsprung’s
disease and includes genetics on ARM and pathology on Hirschsprung’s Disease.
Furthermore research is done on clinical outcome of these patients. The research is
local, national and international. International he was (and is) involved in the
European network for anorectal malformations (ARMnet.eu). Finally he is involved in
research on the possibilities of tissue engineering for the pelvic floor and
diaphragmatic hernia’s.
He has written more than 60 peer reviewed international papers and several book
chapters in pediatric critical care medicine, traumatology and anorectal
malformations. He is reviewer for more than 5 international magazines.
For contact his email address is: ivo.deblaauw@radboudumc.nl