EBPS Examiners

Professor Hugo Heij

Acting head of department of paediatric surgery

Medical school at Erasmus University Rotterdam, graduation (MD) 1974
Diploma course in tropical medicine at the Royal Tropical Institute Amsterdam 1975
Specialist training general surgery Erasmus Medical Centre (formerly Dijkzigt University Hospital) Rotterdam 1979 - 1985
Fellowship paediatric surgery Sophia Children’s Hospital Rotterdam 1985-1986
Specialist training in paediatric surgery (Paediatric surgical center Amsterdam, AMC & VUmc) 1986-1988

Specialist paediatric surgeon (Paediatric surgical center Amsterdam AMC & VUmc) 1988 - 1995
Medical superintendent & consultant general and paediatric surgeon St Francis’ Hospital, Katete, Zambia 1995 - 1999
Professor and head of department (Paediatric surgical center Amsterdam AMC & VUmc) 1999 - 2014
Consultant paediatric surgeon Princess Maxima Center for paediatric oncology, Utrecht, 2014-2016
Acting head of department of paediatric surgery, Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital, Utrecht, 2015-2016

Pancreatic exocrine function (PhD thesis, 1984),
Gastro-oesophageal reflux,
Long term follow-up studies on congenital malformations and malignant tumors in children
Management of non-scrotal testis,
Non-operative treatment of appendicitis

Founding Fellow of the College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa (COSECSA)
External examiner at the University of Nairobi (Kenya)
Fellow of the EBPS
Examiner at EBPS
Paediatric surgery in low-income countries (‘primary paediatric surgery’)
History of paediatric surgery