Ronald De Groot MD, PhD

Ronald de Groot studied medicine in Rotterdam, followed by a residency in Gynecology/Obstetrics and Surgery as a preparation for 2.5 years as Senior Medical Officer in Zonkwa Hospital, Nigeria. He did his pediatric training in Rotterdam and became chief resident followed by a 3-year research fellowship in PID at the University of Washington, Seattle. In 1988 he returned to the Erasmus University in Rotterdam and became head of the training program and Professor in PID and Immunology. He was chairman of the Dept of Paediatrics of the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre from 2005-2009. As a Professor in Pediatrics, his research activities cover several themes including the study of respiratory tract infections, the molecular pathogenesis of infections by S. pneumoniae, Neisseria meningitidis, and HIV, and clinical and translational research in children with immunodeficiencies and has authored 250 peer-reviewed English language papers. Ronald is currently President of ESPID, a member of the Dutch Health Council, and a member of the Central Committee of Medical Research in the Netherlands. 

Ronald de Groot (1948, Rotterdam, the Netherlands) studied Medicine at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (MD, 1975), followed by a residency in Gynecology/Obstetrics and Surgery as a preparation for 2½ years as a Senior Medical Officer in St. Louis Hospital, Zonkwa, Nigeria. He subsequently did his pediatric residency in the Sophia Children’s Hospital in Rotterdam under the supervision of Professor Henk K.J. Visser (licensed in 1983) and was chief resident from 1983 to 1985. In 1985 he went to the United States, where he was accepted for a research fellowship (1985-1988) in pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Washington, Seattle, under the supervision of Professor Arnold L. Smith.