Marc Benninga MD, PhD

Professor Marc Benninga studied medicine at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. After receiving his Medical degree, he worked as a research fellow at the department of paediatric gastroenterology and nutrition at the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam with Jan Taminiau and Hans Büller. He performed extensive research on constipation and faecal incontinence in childhood. Subsequently, he was trained in paediatrics at the Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital in Utrecht, The Netherlands. After his paediatric training, he performed research at The Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Adelaide, Australia, with Geoff Davidson and Taher Omari.

During his stay in Adelaide, his research focused on the maturation of upper gastrointestinal motility in very young infants. In 1999, he became a staff member in the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam, and currently he is the head of the department of paediatric gastroenterology & Nutrition. Currently, he is head of the department of paediatric gastroenterology & Nutrition The focus of his current clinical and research work is gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, recurrent abdominal pain, constipation, functional non-retentive faecal incontinence and inflammatory bowel disease in childhood. He played in the Dutch National hockey team and competed at the Olympics in 1988, Seoul.