Presidency

President

Prof. W.A. van Gool

Pim van Gool has been appointed President of the Health Council of the Netherlands (Gezondheidsraad) from 1 September 2012.

He was born in 1957 and studied medicine at the University of Amsterdam, where he gained a doctorate for an experimental study of cerebral aging in an animal model performed at the Netherlands Institute for Brain Research. He has more than 25 years’ experience in healthcare and research. He was appointed professor of Neurology, with special reference to dementias, at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam in 2000.

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Vice President

Prof. D. Kromhout

Daan Kromhout has been Vice President of the Health Council of the Netherlands (part-time) since 2005.

Daan graduated in 1974 as human nutrition specialist from Wageningen University and was awarded a doctorate in 1978 from the same university for the thesis on risk factors for cardiovascular diseases in schoolchildren. He was awarded a Master of Public Health from the University of Minnesota, USA, in 1981.

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Vice President

 Prof. H. Obertop

Hugo Obertop has been appointed as Vice President of the Health Council of the Netherlands from 1 January 2011.

Huug Obertop studied Medicine at the University of Leiden and followed his surgical training in the former Academic Hospital Dijkzigt in Rotterdam. He received his PhD in 1978 after a research fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, USA.

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