Manon Benders MD, PhD

Manon Benders is a professor in Neonatology of the Wilhelmina Children's hospital, UMC Utrecht. Currently, she is head of the Department and director of research of the Division of Woman&Baby. She obtained her Ph.D. degree in Leiden (1999, Prof. Margot van der Bor). She was qualified as a Pediatrician-Neonatologist since 2006 (prof. Frank van Bel). thereafter she did a fellowship in Neonatal Neurology (prof. Linda de Vries. She has been a consultant neonatologist in the Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital of the University Medical Center in Utrecht, the Netherlands since 2006. Since April 2014 she was working part-time as a senior clinical lecturer, King’s College London and an honorary consultant in Neonatology at Guy’s and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.

Before she did a junior research fellowship on cerebral ultrasound (Prof. dr. F. Walther) at UCLA in 1997, USA and a senior neonatal neurology research fellowship on neonatal neuro-imaging at the University of Geneva (Prof. dr. P.S. Hüppi) in 2006-2007 as part of her fellowship Neonatal Neurology. Manon is supervising in total 12 Ph.D. students and 4 clinical research fellows/postdocs, working on national and international research projects, focusing on perinatal neuro-imaging evaluating brain development and neuroprotective and -regenerative strategies.