Sanne Hoeks

About the author 135 9 ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sanne Hoeks was born on March 21, 1978 in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands. She completed secondary school at the GymnasiumBeekvliet in Sint Michielsgestel. A gapyear was used to graduate a ninth subject (physics), to gain work experience in the hospital (she was very dedicated to serve food to patients with pulmonary conditions) and to play volleyball (a lot!). In 1997 she was able to start Medical School at the Radboud University Nijmegen. During her study, she became intrigued by Neonatology after a research project investigating the role of mannose binding lectin in neonatal sepsis (under supervision of Leo Gerards, Tannette Krediet, Andre Fleer and Ger Rijkers), an elective and a final internship at the Neonatal ward (Wilhelmina’s Childrens Hospital UMC Utrecht and Radboud hospital Nijmegen, respectively). After graduation in 2003, she began her training in Pediatrics at the Wilhelmina’s Children’s Hospital UMC Utrecht (under supervision of prof. dr. J.L.L. Kimpen and prof. dr. J. Frenkel), Gelre Hospital in Apeldoorn (under supervision of dr. G.T. Heikens) and Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town, South-Africa (under supervision of prof. dr. P. van der Merwe). In 2007, she started her PhD and alternated between work in the laboratory and clinical rotations. She finished her pediatric training in 2011 and after two more years of research, she started her fellowship in Neonatology at the Wilhelmina’s children’s Hospital UMC Utrecht (under supervision of prof. dr. F. van Bel and dr. W.B. de Vries). She worked as a consultant in Neonatology in the Maxima Medical Center in Veldhoven from 2018 until she started as a consultant in Pediatrics and Neonatology in the Diakonessenhuis Utrecht medio 2019. Sanne is married to Jochem de Gruijter. They have four children, Nila (2011), Teun and Juule (2014), Cato (2016).