Hendrik Klaas Aldert "Henk" Visser (born 19 June 1930) is a Dutch pediatrician. He was professor of

pediatrics Pediatrics ( also spelled ''paediatrics'' or ''pædiatrics'') is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young adults. In the United Kingdom, paediatrics covers many of their youth until th ...

at the

Erasmus University Rotterdam Erasmus University Rotterdam (abbreviated as ''EUR'', nl, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam ) is a public research university located in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The university is named after Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, a 15th-century humanist ...

and the

Erasmus MC Erasmus University Medical Center (Erasmus MC or EMC) based in Rotterdam, Netherlands, affiliated with Erasmus University and home to its faculty of medicine, is the largest and one of the most authoritative scientific University Medical Centers in ...

between 1967 and 1995.

Life

Visser was born on 19 June 1930 in

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. He studied medicine at the

University of Groningen The University of Groningen (abbreviated as UG; nl, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, abbreviated as RUG) is a Public university#Continental Europe, public research university of more than 30,000 students in the city of Groningen (city), Groningen in ...

between 1948 and 1955. He specialized in pediatrics under professor J.H.P. Jonxis. Visser obtained his PhD in 1958. From 1960 to 1961 he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the

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. Visser became professor of pediatrics at the

and the

in 1967. He was head of the department of pediatrics of the Erasmus MC and the between 1967 and 1995. Visser was

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of the faculty of Medicine from 1986 to 1990. He retired in 1995. Visser was elected a member of the

Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences ( nl, Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, abbreviated: KNAW) is an organization dedicated to the advancement of science and literature in the Netherlands. The academy is housed ...

in 1980. In 1997 he was awarded the Gorterpenning by the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Kindergeneeskunde. Visser was the first chairman of the Dutch from April 1st 1999 to June 1st 2003. In this period the Dutch was introduced.M.J.H. Kenter en H.K.A. Visser, Bescherming van proefpersonen in klinische research - De toetsing van medisch-wetenschappelijk onderzoek met mensen. 20/10 Uitgevers, Grou 2022

References

1930 births Living people Dutch pediatricians Erasmus University Rotterdam faculty Members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences People from Dokkum University of Groningen alumni {{Netherlands-med-bio-stub