Eduard Verhagen MD, JD, PhD

Eduard Verhagen, is a paediatrician at the University Medical Center Groningen (Netherlands). Dr Verhagen completed his specialty training in Pediatrics in AMC/Amsterdam. He worked for 5 years in Curaçao (Caribbean) before he came to Groningen to work as the clinical director of the Beatrix Children’s Hospital/UMCG, where he is now a professor of pediatrics and department chair. He received his MD and JD from the University of Utrecht (Netherlands) and completed his pediatric specialty training in Amsterdam. His PhD thesis (University of Groningen) was on neonatal end-of-life decisions in Dutch NICU’s. He has written numerous scientific papers about ethical decision-making and end-of-life care and he was one of the authors of the ‘Groningen Protocol’ for newborn euthanasia.