Ben Willem Mol

Prof. Ben Willem Mol is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. He is interested in the organisation of multi-centric evaluative research in Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Fertility. The research is focused mainly upon everyday practices. As a Professor, Ben considers his most important task to be the stimulation and innovation of evaluative research in Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductive Medicine.
Ben studied Medicine at the University of Amsterdam. From 1993 to 1997, he obtained a PhD in the department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the AMC. Between 1997 and 2003 he was trained as a Gynaecologist at the University Medical Centre (Universitair Medisch Centrum) in Utrecht. Since 2002, he has been a Senior Researcher in the department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the AMC. From 2003 to 2007, he worked as a Gynaecologist-Perinatologist at the MMC in Veldhoven. Ben was instrumental in initiating the Dutch consortium for Research in Women’s health, in which 70 hospitals collaborate in multicenter trials. The initiative is now incorporated by the Dutch Society for Obstetrics and Gynaecology and is supported by the Dutch national funder and the Dutch health insurance companies. In 2010, he co-initiated the Global Obstetric Network GOnet.
In 2014, Ben moved with his family to Adelaide, Australia. Ben holds an NHMRC practitioner fellowship, which was awarded as the highest ranked application in 2014. His professional adage is ‘A day without randomisation is a day without progress.’