Additional training in pediatric urology:
Nijmegen, University Hospital; Rotterdam, University Children’s Hospital; Toronto, Canada, Hospital for Sick Children; Detroit, USA: Children’s Hospital Wayne State University; Baltimore, USA: John’s Hopkins Memorial Hospital; Londen, UK: Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Institute for Urology. Registration as a pediatric urologist, november, 1986.
Current position: Head, Department of Pediatric Urology University Children's Hospitals UMC Utrecht and AMC Amsterdam
The Department of Pediatric Urology in Utrecht and Amsterdam is relatively large in Europe and has a staff of 5 pediatric urologists, 1 fellow and 3 residents. Starting in 1988, pediatric urology is embedded in the Pediatric Renal Center Utrecht, together with pediatric nephrology and urotherapy. Supporting paramedical staff are 2 nurses for urodynamic studies and catheterisation, 4 urotherapists for incontinence training and 2 nurses for stoma therapy and fecal incontinence. The department is locally and nationally embedded in many multidisciplinary cooperations. An important group of Dutch and international pediatric urologists have been trained within the department. The concept of the Pediatric Renal Center has been copied in many places inside and outside The Netherlands. The concept of urotherapy for functional urinary incontinence has been exported over the whole country and in a substantial number of foreign centers. Approximately 1100 tertiary care patients are operated every year and 1500 new cases are seen in the out-patient clinic. National and international education and good clinical research are important pillars of pediatric urology in Utrecht.
The list of peer-reviewed publications has more then 120 hits, predominantly on functional lower tract pediatric urology and incontinence. More then 50 chapters in pediatric urologic books have been written. The Department of Pediatric Urology in Utrecht and, since 2008, Amsterdam,, as the first center in Europe, was accredited as an official fellow training center for pediatric urology by the European board for medical specialisms, the EUMS.