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Patrick Ferry Van Rheenen

Patrick Ferry Van Rheenen MD, PhD

Pediatrics
Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

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Patrick van Rheenen is a Paediatric Gastroenterologist and Associate Professor of International Child Health at the Beatrix Children's Hospital - University Medical Center Groningen. In the early years of his career, Patrick van Rheenen worked as a tropical doctor in Zambia. During his training as a specialist in Paediatrics in the Netherlands, he completed his Ph.D. in the field of International Child Health and was rewarded with a scholarship for postgraduate training in Clinical Epidemiology. Since 2008 he has been working as a Paediatric Gastroenterologist with a particular interest in Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

On a nationwide level, he founded the IBD Working Group Kids with Crohn’s and Colitis (ICC), which has members in all Dutch university medical centers and teaching hospitals. He is the past chair of the pediatricians of the European Crohn’s and Colitis Organisation (ECCO) and the lead author of the European guideline on the medical management of pediatric Crohn's disease.
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