Jurgen C. De Graaff MD, PhD

Jurgen de Graaff is anaesthesiologist (2008) and epidemiologist (2004). He studied Medicine at the University of Maastricht (1996) and obtained his PhD at the Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam (2003) on the thesis entitled: “The use of microcirculatory techniques in the assessment of pathophysiology, diagnosis and management of critical limb ischemia”.

After he was trained at the St. Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein (2008) he became a staff anesthesiologist at the Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital (2009). He was a visiting researcher at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne (2012). Since 2016 he is working at the Sophia Children’s Hospital, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam.
br/> He is Honorary Secretary of the European Society for Paediatric Anaesthesiology (2016), and vice president of the Dutch Society for Paediatric Anaesthesia (2013). His research focuses on the improvement of perioperative care in children using retrospective and prospective pre- and intraoperative (database) studies. Furthermore, he is a member of the Trial Steering Committee and Management Group of the GAS-study and national coordinator of the Nectarine study.