Prof. Ernst J. Kuipers, MD PhD
Head of Department

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Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Erasmus MC, 's Gravendijkwal 230, 3015 CE Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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Ernst Kuipers (1959) studied Medicine at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands and trained in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology between 1986 and 1994. He subsequently became Head of the Gastroenterology outpatient clinic at the VU Medical Center in Amsterdam. He participated in 1994 in the WHO meeting on H. pylori and gastric cancer. In 1995, he completed his thesis (cum laude) on the interrelation between H. pylori, chronic gastritis and gastric cancer, this thesis was awarded the 1996 Dutch Gastrointestinal Research Award. He worked in 1995 - 1997 as research associate in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA under Prof. M.J. Blaser. In 2000, he became Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology of the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Since September 2006 he also chairs the Department of Internal Medicine of the Erasmus MC. He is / has been a member of the editorial boards of Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, American Journal of Gastroenterology, Best Practice and Research in Gastroenterology, Digestion, Gastroenterology, Gut, World Journal of Gastroenterology, and the Cochrane group for upper gastrointestinal and pancreatic disorders, and as of 2008 handling editor of Gut. He is a member of the Dutch National Health Council, and President-elect of the Dutch Society of Gastroenterologists and the European Helicobacter Study Group. In 2006, he was awarded with a fellowship of the American Gastroenterology Association. His research focuses on the etiology, diagnosis and prevention of early neoplastic lesions of the gastrointestinal tract, and he chairs the Rotterdam Colon Cancer Screening group.

Selected references:

• Kusters JG, van Vliet AHM, Kuipers EJ (2006) Pathogenesis of Helicobacter pylori infection. Clin. Microbiol. Rev. 19, 449-490. [Abstract/Full Text]
• van Soest EM, Dieleman JP, Siersema PD, Sturkenboom MC, Kuipers EJ (2005) Increasing incidence of Barrett's oesophagus in the general population. Gut 54, 1062-1066. [Abstract/Full Text]
• Kuipers EJ, Israel DA, Kusters JG, Gerrits MM, Weel J, van Der Ende A, van Der Hulst RW, Wirth HP, Hook-Nikanne J, Thompson SA, Blaser MJ (2000) Quasispecies development of Helicobacter pylori observed in paired isolates obtained years apart from the same host. J. Infect. Dis. 181, 273-282. [Abstract/Full Text]
• Kuipers EJ, Lundell L, Klinkenberg-Knol EC, Havu N, Festen HP, Liedman B, Lamers CB, Jansen JB, Dalenback J, Snel P, Nelis GF, Meuwissen SG (1996) Atrophic gastritis and Helicobacter pylori infection in patients with reflux esophagitis treated with omeprazole or fundoplication. N. Engl. J. Med. 334, 1018-1022. [Abstract/Full Text]
• Kuipers EJ, Uyterlinde AM, Pena AS, Roosendaal R, Pals G, Nelis GF, Festen HP, Meuwissen SG (1995) Long-term sequelae of Helicobacter pylori gastritis. Lancet 345, 1525-1528. [Abstract/Full Text]
  

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