This joint lecture highlights the links between art and medicine in restoration of works of art and treatment of patients.

Lydia Beerkens is Managing Director at SRAL The Conservation Institute in Maastricht since 2021, where a team of 16 professionals, masters in conservation in the specialisations: historic interiors, panel paintings, easel paintings, sculptures, modern art and guilt leather working on major projects throughout the Netherlands. SRAL has become in over four decades a national conservation studio and knowledge centre for cultural heritage. Beerkens also works since 1998 as senior conservator of Modern Art. After her studies in Art History (Radboud University Nijmegen) and in Conservation and Restoration (SRAL Maastricht) she specialised as conservator-researcher during the Dutch research project ‘Modern Art: Who Cares?’ (SBMK/RCE; 1995-1997 – book published 1999). She earned her PhD at the Radboud University Nijmegen in 2012 and as a leading practitioner she contributed to various research projects: The Artist Interview (SBMK/UvA/RCE - Book 2012), Conservation of Outdoor Painted Sculptures (ICOM-CC/ Getty Conservation Institute – Book 2014) and Project Plastics, (SBMK / UvA / RCE; 2017 – 2019). Beerkens has recently initiated the PoCo Project, a unique program to train three young conservators in the specialty of polychrome sculpture conservation in three years. She has published over 50 articles and contributed substantially to various international conferences on case studies and decision-making in art conservation.

Philip E.V. Van Kerrebroeck MD, PhD, MMSc was born in Louvain (B) , and after obtaining a MD from the University of Leuven (B) , he trained in General Surgery and Urology in Belgium, the Netherlands and the USA. Registered as a urologist in 1984, he received a Masters Degree in Medical Sciences (MMSc) from the University of Antwerp (B) in 1992 and the PhD degree in medicine from the University of Nijmegen (Nl) in 1993. Since 1993 he is Fellow of the European Board of Urology.
He was appointed as Professor of Urology at the University of Maastricht in 1996, and reached the emeritus status in October 2019. He was Chairman of the Department of Urology in the Maastricht University Medical Center from 1996 till 2011. He has a long standing clinical interest in neurogenic and non-neurogenic functional problems of the lower urinary tract. His research interests are the development of new therapies in Neuro-Urology, such as neuromodulation and experimental pharmacotherapeutic modalities for voiding dysfunction, including nocturia, and erectile problems.
Philip is Board Member of the International Continence Society and the European Association of Urology, and is vice-chair of the EAU Policy office, leading the “Urge to Act” campaign for Continence Haelth in the EU.
He serves as reviewer for 25 scientific journals, authored >300 peer reviewed articles, and published 82 books and book chapters in the field of urology and cultural anthropology.