Raoul C. M. Hennekam MD, PhD

Dr. Raoul CM Hennekam received his MD degree and his specialty training in Paediatrics and the second one in Clinical Genetics at the State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands. He wrote a Ph.D. thesis on the Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome in 1990. He was appointed as a professor of Paediatrics and Clinical Genetics in 2002 at the Academic Medical Centre of the University of Amsterdam. Between 2005 and 2010 he worked in London at the Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children at the University College London as a professor of Clinical Genetics and Dysmorphology. He is presently working as a professor of Paediatrics and Translational Genetics at the Department of Paediatrics of the University of Amsterdam and an honorary professor of Clinical Genetics and Dysmorphology at the Institute of Neurology of the University College London. His main scientific interests include mental disabilities, autism, connective tissue disorders, and (molecular) dysmorphology. He is a member of the National Dutch Health Council, the European Research council for FP7, and chair of the International Nomenclature Committee. He is European Editor of the American Journal of Medical Genetics, and Associate Editor of the European Journal of Medical Genetics.