Govert Veldhuijzen

205 Curriculum Vitae V. CURRICULUM VITAE Govert Veldhuijzen was born on Tuesday the 5th of February 1985 in Dordrecht. After graduating from the Johan de Witt Gymnasium in Dordrecht in 2003, he started his academic career at the University College Maastricht, a faculty of the Maastricht University. In 2004 he started studying Medicine at Maastricht University. During this study he served several clinical rotations abroad: Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda in 2009, Internal Medicine at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Brussels in 2009, Belgium and Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Pretoria, in Pretoria, South-Africa. He graduated in October 2011. He wrote his master thesis at the department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology of the Maastricht University Medical Center + titled: “Endoscopic management of large colorectal polyps: safety and effectiveness aspects in a real-life cohort”. His first clinical work as junior medical doctor started in December 2011 as a resident Intensive Care at the Medical Center Alkmaar in Alkmaar, where in February 2013 he started working on the first clinical research of this thesis under supervision of dr. Michael Klemt-Kropp, gastroenterologist. In January 2014 he started his training in Gastroenterology and Hepatology by working at the Internal Medicine department at the Jeroen Bosch Hospital in Den Bosch under supervision of dr. Watske Smit, nephrologist. In March 2015, after winning a ZonMW grant, he started as formal PhD candidate under supervision of professor dr. Joost Drenth and dr. Aura van Esch, gastroenterologists at the Radboudumc Nijmegen. In June 2016 he started his training in Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Jeroen Bosch Hospital under supervision of dr. Bob Scheffer, gastroenterologist. Since May 2018 his training continued at the Radboud University Medical Center Nijmegen, under the supervision of dr. Mariëtte van Kouwen, gastroenterologist. In November 2020 he obtained his license as a consultant in gastroenterology and hepatology, with a subspeciality in advanced endoscopy. From January 2021 he works as a gastroenterologist and advanced endoscopist at the Gelre Hospitals in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. Govert Veldhuijzen is living in Utrecht, the Netherlands. He is married with Judith Groeneweg. Together they have a baby daughter: Vivian.