Mark Hans Emanuel, Netherlands
University Medical Center, Utrecht

Prof. Mark Hans Emanuel was trained at the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam. Since 1992 he is working in the Spaarne Hospital (University of Amsterdam) in Haarlem/Heemstede/Hoofddorp as a staff consultant gynaecologist and since this year he also works in the University Medical Center in Utrecht.
In 1998 he wrote his PhD-thesis entitled: Submucous Myomas and Abnormal Uterine Bleeding; epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment. His special field of interest is diagnosis and treatment of the uterine cavity (ultrasonography and hysteroscopy).
He is a specialist in advanced hysteroscopic surgery and he is directing a National Referral Center for advanced hysteroscopic surgery and Asherman Syndrome. He is a former Board Member of the Dutch Society of Obstetrics & Gynaecologuy (NVOG) and ISGE.
He was awarded as Dutch Inventor of the Year for the development of Hysteroscopic Morcellation or Tissue Removal Sysytems.
He holds three patents related to Hysteroscopic Morcellation, Gel instillation Sonohysterography and Hysterosalpingo Foam Sonography respectively.
He lives in the center of The Netherlands with his wife Lilian Walhof and he has three daughters who live in Amsterdam.