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Curriculum Vitae

Family Name : Hoekstra

First names : Maarten Otto

Date of birth : August 30th, 1957

Place of birth : Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Address : Mariaplaats 30M

3511 LL Utrecht, The Netherlands

Telephone (work) : 31-30-2504555 (home): 31-30-2342109 / 31-6-21581689

Diplomas / yr exam:High School / 1975

Bachelor degreePharmacy / 1978

Medical Degree (Utrecht) / 1985

Pediatrician (Groningen/Curacao)/ 1991 (Prof.Dr. HSA Heijmans)

Pediatric Pulmonologist (Groningen) / 1994 (Prof.Dr. K Knol)

Thesis : 'Studies on eosinophils in childhood asthma', Groningen 1996

Jobs Pediatrician on Dept. General Pediatrics and Dept. of Pediatric Intensive Care (6/91-10/97, University Hospital Groningen)

Participation in activities of Dept. of Pediatric Pulmonology with a focus on coordination and screening for pediatric lungtransplantation.(6/91-10/98, idem Groningen)

Pediatric Pulmonologist (10/98-01/99, idem Groningen)

Pediatric Pulmonologist (02/99-02/02, University Hospital Amsterdam)

Head of Dept. of General Pediatrics, and shared Head of Centre for Paediatric Allergology, Wilhelmina Childrens Hospital, University Medical Centre Hospital Utrecht (02/02-now)

AddendumPublications // Presentations// Committees // Ad Hoc reviewer // Funding // Continuing Education

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Publications : 64 hits on PubMed (March 2007)

Presentations: 10 presentations yearly about asthma and allergic disease in children for nurses, residents, general practitioners, specialists.

Committees and memberships

1. Committee for Post-grade training (UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GRONINGEN: 1991 - 1997)

2. Scientific Board (UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GRONINGEN: 1993 - 1999)

3. Education and Training committee (UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GRONINGEN: 1996 - 1999)

4. Committee concensus astma treatment, (PEDIATRIC PULMONOLOGY SECTION OF DUTCH SOCIETY OF PEDIATRICS (NVK): 1996 - 1997)

5. Working group bronchology PEDIATRIC PULMONOLOGY SECTION OF DUTCH SOCIETY OF PEDIATRICS (1991 - 2004)

6. Working group Immunology en biochemistry of the airways, Netherlands Astma Foundation, 1991 - now)

7.Organisation TRENDS. Postgrade education in pediatric pulmonology (1998 - 2001)

8. Member Pediatric Pulmonology Section DUTCH SOCIETY OF PEDIATRICS (1991 - now)

9. Member American Thoracic Society (1994 - 2006)

  1. Member European Respiratory Society (1994 - 2006)
  2. Member Dutch Society of Pediatrics (1988 - now)
  3. Member committee Scientific Meetings DUTCH SOCIETY OF PEDIATRICS (1997 - 2000)
  4. Editor-in-Chief Pediatric Clinics of Amsterdam (2000-2002)
  1. Member Advice Committee Epidemiology NAF (1999)
  2. Member Scientific Board, Netherlands-DAVOS Union (1999 - 2005)
  3. Member Accreditation and Certification Committee DUTCH SOCIETY OF PEDIATRICS (2001-2005)
  4. Chairman Educational Funding Board UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL UTRECHT (2002-2006)
  5. Member Medical Ethics Committee UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL UTRECHT (2003-2006)
  6. Member METC WKZ (2003-2006)
  7. Member EAACI (2003-now)
  8. Member of Ediatorial Board Dutch Journal of Allergology (NTvA) (2002-now)
  9. Member Dutch Society of Allergology (2004-now)
  10. Member CBO concensus group ‘’Eczema’’ (2004-05)
  11. Chairman Dutch Paediatric Allergology Section NVK (2004-now)
  12. Member of Editorial Board of Reactie (2006-now)

Ad hoc reviewer

  1. Eur Respir J
  2. Lab Clin Med
  3. Geneesmiddelenbulletin
  4. Clin Exp Allergy
  5. Pediatrics
  6. Allergy
  7. Ned Tijdschr Kindergeneeskd
  8. Onderzoeksaanvraag Nederlands Astma Fonds
  9. Onderzoeksaanvraag Stichting Astma Bestrijding

10. Abstracts congres European Respiratory Society, Glasgow

11. Reviewer clinical fellowship application ERS

12. Am J Clin Dermatol

13. Mediators of Inflammation

14. Cochrane Society

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Funding

-Immunomodulation in an animal model. (funded by Netherlands Asthma Foundation [NAF], NAF 1997, No 97.42, 2 papers)

-Prevalence of atopic disease in children with diabetes mellitus. (funded by University Hospital Groningen, 1 paper)

-Correlation of lung function and activity of the diaphagma in infants and young children. (with Prof.Dr W.M.C. van Aalderen (University Hospital Amsterdam, 2002), funded by NAF 1997, No 97.14) Thesis Dr EJ Maarsingh 2005.

-Immunomodulation in infants at-risk for the development of atopy. (with Dept. of Pharmacology Prof.Dr F.P. Nijkamp and Prof. Dr W.M.C. van Aalderen (University Hospital Amsterdam, funded by Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) 1998, No 32.93.96.2) Thesis Mrs drs TJ Steenhuis expected 2008.

-Probiotics in the primary prevention of atopic disease. (funded by University Hospital Utrecht, 2002). Thesis Mrs drs LEM Niers expected 2008.

-Gene expression profiles in pediatric atopic disease: a cross-sectional and longitudinal study (funded by University Hospital Utrecht, 2002). Thesis Mrs drs B Kapitein expected 2008.

-Epidemiology and pathophysiology of peanut and hazelnut allergy in children. (funded by Wilhelmina Childrens Hospital Research Fund 2003) Thesis Mrs drs AE Flinterman November 1st 2007.

-Gene polymorphisms in children with recurrent airway infections within the PIAMA birth cohort. (with Prof Dr EAM Sanders, Dept of Paediatric Immunology, WKZ, University Hospital Utrecht, funded by the WKZ-research fund, 2004). Thesis Mrs drs JM Ruskamp expected 2009.

-Allergy and heat shock proteins. With Prof Dr AB Prakken, Dept of Paediatric Immunology, WKZ, funded by WKZ, 2004. Thesis Drs JA Aalberse expected 2009.

Recent Funding

-Prebiotics in immune-mediated disease, a translational study. (with Prof Dr AB Prakken, Dept of Paediatric Immunology 2 PhD-students (Drs S.de Roock and Mrs drs SBE Hoeks), funded by Top Institue Pharma [TIP], 2006)

-Probioticsin immune-mediated disease, a translational study. with Prof Dr AB Prakken,and Dr GT Rijkers, Dept of Paediatric Immunology 1 PhD-student (Mrs drs E Wehrens) and 1 Post-doc (Mrs Dr I de Kleer), funded by Senter Food and Nutrition Delta, 2006)

-Regulatory T-cells and the development of asthma in infants. (with Prof Dr AB Prakken, Dept of Paediatric Immunology, funded by NAF, 2006), 1 PhD student (Mrs drs LL Reubsaet).

Continuing Education

Succesfull management of projects

Time Management

Efficient management of meetings

Controlling emotions

Leadership by motivation

From protein to gene

Evidence Based Medicine

Postgraduate Course (American Thoracic Society, Chicago): Genetic analysis of lung development and injury using mouse models.

Teaching students how to present

Integrated Management Training

Postgraduate meeting (Keystone [CO/USA]) Hygiene, Asthma and Atopy.

Postgraduate Course (American Thoracic Society, Seattle): Application of proteomics to pulmonary research: a challenging approach to the proteome.

Follow-up Management training planned for 2008.