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Henk van der Poel
Since 2001 I have been working as a urologist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute. Within the team, I am most involved in the treatment of patients with prostate and bladder cancer and contribute to the care of patients with kidney, bladder, penis and testicular cancer. The NKI is a special hospital because it offers a lot of space for scientific research. This is very important for the improvement of care. In this way, new techniques and insights reach patients who are treated at the NKI more quickly. We therefore often ask patients to participate in research. In addition, we work a lot with hospitals in and outside the region at the NKI. For example, we give advice and discuss patients with doctors from other hospitals.
I trained as a urologist in Nijmegen and then worked as a urologist at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore and VUmc, Amsterdam before I started at the NKI. The Netherlands Cancer Institute is part of the Prostate Cancer Network Netherlands in which I perform the prostatectomy with the surgical robot as one of the operators. I am also head of the Urology department at the NKI. In the field of research, we study the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer. Research into quality of life is an important part of this. So if you are asked to fill in a questionnaire about this, this not only means something for your own treatment, but also helps to inform other patients about the effects of illness and treatment on daily life.
Function:
Urologist, head of department, chair of minimally invasive surgery committee, researcher
Qualifications:
- 1994: PhD: Quantitative light Microscopy in Uro-oncology
- 1999: Urologist
- 2000: Fellowship Johns Hopkins University, US: Gene therapy
- 2001: Fellowship VUmc, Amsterdam
- 2021: Endowed professorship: Image-guided operative urology, VUMC
Scientific publications:
van der poel H not HJ - Search Results - PubMed (nih.gov)
h_vanderpoel - Google Scholar
Meet Henk van der Poel:
"We want to coordinate the expectations and possibilities of treatment, especially because there are so many possibilities."