Director
PedNet
Institution
(Name, dept, country) Director of the PedNet Haemophilia Research Foundation , the Netherlands
Current Positions/Chairs Director of the PedNet Haemophilia Research Foundation
Principal investigator US PUP study (ATHN 8)
Brief Biography Dr. van den Berg attended the Faculty of Medicine, University of Groningen, The Netherlands. She received her degree as a medical doctor in 1980. She worked for 3 years in Internal Medicine and Hematology. She defended her PhD thesis on Non-Hodgkin Lymphomas in March 1986. Meanwhile, she was trained as pediatrician and specialized in Pediatric-Hematology/Oncology in the VU Medical Center. From 1991 to 2008 she worked in the University Hospital Utrecht as the Director of the Van Creveldkliniek, the Dutch National Center for Hemophilia, and at the Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital Department of Pediatric Hematology. She did a sabbatical with Prof Dr Gilbert White in Chapel Hill (USA) on the relation of HLA type and inhibitor development. Since 2008 she is clinical expert for the Blood Product Working Party of the European Medicine Agency (EMA). Between 2008 and 2011 she was CEO of the Meander Medical Center, a large teaching hospital. Since 2012 she holds a position as Associate Professor at the Department of Health Sciences and Epidemiology of the University Medical Center of Utrecht, the Netherlands. From May 2014 until May 2018 she was the Vice-President Medical of the World Federation of Hemophilia. May 2017 she became director of the PedNet Haemophilia research foundation Her expertise in hemophilia is in inhibitor development and prophylaxis. She is the initiator and principal investigator of several multicenter studies on inhibitors.
Sunday, July 10, 2022
2:45 PM – 4:00 PM
Sunday, July 10, 2022
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM