Peter W. De Leeuw MD, PhD

Professor Peter de Leeuw is an emeritus professor of medicine at the Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands. He studied medicine at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and completed his training in Internal Medicine with Professor Birkenhäger at the Zuiderziekenhuis in Rotterdam. After having obtained his Ph.D. in Medicine, he worked as a post-doc research fellow with Professor Hollenberg at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Since 1991 he has been a professor of Medicine at the University of Maastricht.

Peter de Leeuw was President of the Dutch Society of Hypertension (1988-1996) and has served as a member of the Scientific Council of the International Society of Hypertension (1992-2000). He was and is on the Editorial Board of several journals in the field of hypertension and (general) internal medicine. He has been Editor-inChief of the Netherlands Journal of Medicine (1985-1995), The European Journal of Medicine (2003-2005), and the Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde (Dutch Medical Journal, 2008-2015).

He has been the author or co-author of more than 600 peer-reviewed papers and has contributed to several textbooks. In 2001, he was awarded the RD Wright Lectureship of the High Blood Pressure Research Council of Australia for his work on the kidney. In 2011 he received the Bjorn Folkow Award from the European Society of Hypertension and in 2012 the Birkenhäger Award from the Dutch Hypertension Society.