Assistant Professor - medical
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Biography
Dr. Joppe Nijman is pediatric intensivist and clinical researcher in the University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands. In 2002, he started his academic career with a bachelor degree Biology / Biomedical Sciences at Utrecht University, followed by the Selective Utrecht Medical Master (SUMMA) which he successfully completed in 2011. Subsequently, he acquired his PhD degree at Utrecht University on “Postnatally Acquired Cytomegalovirus Infections in Preterm Infants” in 2013. During his PhD trajectory, he also participated in the “Effective Perinatal Intensive Care in Europe study” funded by the EU. In 2018, he finished his pediatrics residency in the Wilhelmina’s Childrens Hospital in Utrecht, The Netherlands, followed by a pediatric intensive care fellowship in the same hospital. During his residency, he supervised a PhD student on “Advances in congenital and postnatal cytomegalovirus infections” who successfully defended her thesis in 2017.
At the start of his clinical fellowship he has shifted his research...
Research aim
To improve long term cardiovascular and neurodevelopmental outcome in patients with severe congenital heart disease.
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