Harrie P. Beerlage MD, PhD, FEBU

Dr. Beerlage has worked as a urologist at the Jeroen Bosch Hospital (Jeroen Bosch Ziekenhuis) in ’s-Hertogenbosch since 2001, where he was also a urology instructor for a number of years. Moreover, he was and will continue to be affiliated with Eindhoven University of Technology (TU Eindhoven) as a senior researcher. While based in ’s-Hertogenbosch, Berlage supervised Ph.D. researchers who as clinicians carried out research in close partnership with TU Eindhoven within the so-called Impulse Programme. From 1997 to 2000, Beerlage worked at Radboud University Medical Center (Radboudumc), where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1999 with a dissertation titled ‘New aspects in diagnosis and minimally invasive treatment of prostate cancer’. He has also had training internships within the field of laparoscopy in Leeds, Innsbruck, Baltimore, and Leipzig.

Beerlage is president of the Endourology Foundation Working Group, which promotes minimal invasive urology, including (robot-assisted) laparoscopy in the Netherlands. From 2007 to 2011, he was secretary of the Netherlands Association for Urology. For several years now, he has been closely involved in organizing local and international conferences and courses and has extensive experience in demonstrating live surgery at these events.