Anita C.s. Hokken-koelega

Anita C.S. Hokken-Koelega is Professor and Head of Pediatric Endocrinology Department at the Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She supervises endocrine research and large multicenter trials in the Netherlands, and is Director of the Dutch Growth Research Foundation. She is Chair of the Strategic and Finance Committee of the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinology (ESPE). Her research focuses on endocrine and metabolic effects of acute and chronic illness in children, growth disorders and GH treatment in children with short stature due to chronic illness, born SGA, and in patients with Prader–Willi syndrome. She is also involved in the development of advanced growth-prediction models and growth charts (Growth Analyser). Professor Hokken-Koelega has published approx. 300 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals. She has received the ASPASIA Award (The Netherlands Research Institute), the Endocrinology Award (Dutch Endocrine Society) and the European Society Pediatric Endocrinology