Roderick Venekamp

Roderick Paul Venekamp was born on the 21th of June 1983. After his graduation as MD in 2008, he started to combine his GP vocational training with a PhD programme at the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care of the UMCU. During this combined programme he also successfully finished a master programme Epidemiology Postgraduate at the UU Graduate School of Life Sciences.

At present, he works as a GP which he combines with an Associate Professor position at the Julius Center. He is principle investigator of the primary care infectious disease reseach group which aims to further improve the evidence base for infections in primary care.

He is member of the evidENT team at the University College London (UCL) thereby contributing to the strong links between UMCU and UCL.

He is an active reviewer for the Cochrane Collaboration and has joint the editorial team of the Cochrane Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI) Group as an Editor in 2014.

He has participated in the 2014 revisions of the practice guidelines on Acute Otitis Media in Children, Otitis Media with Effusion in Children and Acute Rhinosinusitis issued by the Dutch College of GPs.

He is chair of the clinical practice guideline Authorisation committee of the Dutch College of GPs, and serves as member of the Vaccinations committee of the Health Council of the Netherlands and as member of several committees of the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw).

He is chair of chamber A/O of the Medical Research Ethics Committee (MREC) NedMec.

Keywords: General Practice & Nursing Science, Primary care, Infectious Diseases.

Trefwoorden: Huisartsgeneeskunde & Verplegingswetenschap, Infectieziekten.