Kors (cornelis K) Van Der Ent MD, PhD

Kors (Cornelis K) van der Ent (1962) is pediatrician, Professor in Pediatric Pulmonology and chair of the Child Health program. After medical training in Rotterdam and Utrecht he became a research fellow at the department of Pediatric Respiratory Diseases where he graduated in 1997 on a thesis on clinical and physiological aspects of tidal breathing analysis as a measure for airway obstruction in young infants. At the same year he founded the Utrecht Cystic Fibrosis Center, being the largest in the country, focusing on multidisciplinary and long-term centralised treatment of patients with CF. In 2000 he became head of the department of Pediatric Respiratory Diseases and Allergology and was appointed as professor since 2007.