Researcher

W.W. (Wouter) de Herder, PhD

Clinical researcher

Department
Internal Medicine

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About

Introduction

Research experience of Professor W.W. de Herder involves: pathogenesis, diagnosis and therapy of adrenal tumors, pathogenesis, diagnosis and therapy of neuroendocrine tumors and history of acromegaly.

Field(s) of expertise

Neuroendocrine tumors, adrenal tumors, pituitary tumors, endocrinology.

Education and career

1978 - 1985 Medical Studies, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
1981 Research stage at the Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Welsh National School of Medicine, Cardiff, United Kingdom (Prof. A. Richens).
1985 - 1987 Training in Internal Medicine, Deaconess Hospital Refaja, Dordrecht, the Netherlands (Dr. C. Verdoorn).
1988 - 1990 Training in Internal Medicine Academic Hospital Rotterdam, “Dijkzigt”, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (Prof. J.C. Birkenhäger).
1990 Ph.D. thesis ‘Enterohepatic circulation of triiodothyronine’ Ph.D. supervisors: Prof. T.J. Visser and Prof. G. Hennemann, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
1991 Registration in Internal Medicine.
1993 Registration as Endocrinologist by the board of the Dutch Association of Internal Medicine (NIV).
2001 Registration as Endocrinologist by the European Board of Endocrinology of the U.E.M.S.

Publications

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Teaching activities

International

2004 Co-organizer of the 1st annual European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society (ENETS) educational conference, Budapest, Hungary.
2004 Lecturer at the Clinical practice day. Society for Endocrinology, Oxford, United Kingdom.
2005 Co-organizer of the 2nd annual European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society (ENETS) educational conference, Cracow, Poland.
2005 Co-organizer ENETS Guidelines for the Diagnosis and treatment of Neuroendocrine Gastrointestinal Tumors, Frascati, Italy.
2006 Co-organizer of the 3rd annual European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society (ENETS) educational conference, Prague, Czech republic.
2006 Member of program organizing committee (POC) of European Congress of Endocrinology 2006, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
2007 Co-organizer of the 4th annual European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society (ENETS) educational conference, Barcelona, Spain.
2007 Lecturer at the ESE postgraduate course, Krakow, Poland.
2007 Visiting professor, Section of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Messina (Italy).
2007 Lecturer at the Society of Endocrinology, Clinical Update, Manchester, United Kingdom
2007 Co-organizer ENETS Standards of care conference. Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
2008 Co-organizer of the 5th annual European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society (ENETS) educational conference, Paris, France.
2009 Co-organizer 6th Postgraduate Course in Clinical Endocrinology, Valletta, Malta.
2009 Co-organizer of the 6th annual European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society (ENETS) educational conference, Granada, Spain.
2009 Co-organizer 7th Postgraduate Course in Clinical Endocrinology, Bucharest, Romania.
2009 Co-organizer of the ENETS Advisory Board Conference “Clinical Trial Recommendations: unmet clinical needs”, Rome, Italy.
2010 Co-organizer of the 7th annual European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society (ENETS) educational conference, Berlin, Germany.
2010 Co-organizer of the ESE Clinical Update 2010, Porto, Portugal.
2011 Local organizing committee (LOC) chair of the 13th European Congress of Endocrinology (ECE2011), Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
2016 Co-organizer of the 13th annual European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society (ENETS) educational conference, Barcelona, Spain.
2017 Co-organizer of the 14th annual European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society (ENETS) educational conference, Barcelona, Spain.
2018 Co-organizer of the 15th annual European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society (ENETS) educational conference, Barcelona, Spain.
2019 Co-organizer of the 15th annual European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society (ENETS) educational conference, Barcelona, Spain.

National

1992 - present Lecturer at the Erasmus Endocrinology Courses, Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands.
1992 - 2007 Assistant Teacher (co-opleider) in Endocrinology of the Section of Endocrinology of the Specialists Registration Committee of the Nederlandse Internisten Vereniging (NIV).
2007 - 2015 Teacher (opleider) in Endocrinology of the Section of Endocrinology of the Specialists Registration Committee of the Nederlandse Internisten Vereniging (NIV).
1997 - 2007 Co-organizer Erasmus MC lectures on endocrinology as part of the Research School MolMed.
1999 Co-organizer 3rd Dutch Endo-Neuro Meeting, Doorwerth, the Netherlands.
2005 Organizer 1st symposium carcinoid syndrome, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
2006 Organizer 2nd symposium carcinoid syndrome, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
2008 Organizer 3rd symposium carcinoid syndrome, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
2009 Co-organizer Jaarsymposium Endocrinologie 2009, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
2009 Organizer Klinische Dagen NVE (Clinical Endocrinology Days, Dutch Society for Endocrinology), Maarssen, the Netherlands.
2010 Organizer “The Dutch Endocrine Meeting” NVE (Dutch Society for Endocrinology), Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands.
2011 Organizer Klinische Dagen NVE (Clinical Endocrinology Days, Dutch Society for Endocrinology), Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands.
2011 Organizer of the Dutch EKEP meeting, Oxford, UK.
2012 Organizer “The Dutch Endocrine Meeting” NVE (Dutch Society for Endocrinology), Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands.
2012 Organizer of the Dutch EKEP meeting, Berlin, Germany.
2013 Chairman of the Organizing Committee “The Dutch Endocrine Meeting” NVE (Dutch Society for Endocrinology), Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands.
2013 Organizer of the Dutch EKEP meeting Paris, France.
2014 Chairman of the Organizing Committee “The Dutch Endocrine Meeting” NVE (Dutch Society for Endocrinology), Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands.
2015 Organizer of the Dutch EKEP meeting Barcelona, Spain.
2015 Co-organizer of the Dutch EKEP meeting Washington, USA.
2015 Organizer Belgian EKEP, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
2016 Organizer Finnish EKEP, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
2017 Co-organizer of the Dutch EKEP meeting Cambridge, UK.
2019 Organizer Finnish EKEP, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Erasmus MC

1992 - 2009 Participator of Theme 2.2 and Theme 4.4, responsible for the endocrine topics of the course.
2009 - present Participator of Theme 1C
1992 - present Supervision of clinical students and endocrinology fellows.
1992 - 2010 Participation in special endocrine training programs for students (Keuzeonderwijs, 3rd year and 2nd year).
1992 - present Regular training programs in endocrinology for nurses.
1992 - present Regular training programs in endocrinology for nurses and assistants of the out-patient Department of internal medicine.
1992 - present Annual training in endocrinology of residents in internal medicine (AIOS/AGNIOS).
2005 - present Participation in training programs of the Research School MolMed
2005 - present Annual training in endocrinology of residents in nuclear medicine (AIOS/AGNIOS).
2009 - 2011 Participator of Theme 4b
2011 - present Co-organizer Theme Ma1b
2010 - present Participation in special endocrine training programs for students (MINOR).

Ph.D.-STUDENTS

2006 M.O. v Aken (Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands)
2012 J. Hofland
2016 K. Kamp
2017 R.C.S. van Adrichem
2017 M.A. de Vries
2017 T. Brabander
2017 H. Bergsma
2018 C. Beukhof
2019 W.T. Zandee
2019 B. Burggraaf