Huub van der Vaart,
Netherlands
Academic Medical Center
Working experience
• March 1986 – August 1986 resident obstetrics/gynaecology at the Andreas Ziekenhuis te Amsterdam.
• January 1987 – March 1990 resident Medisch Centrum Leeuwarden.
• April 1990 – 1996 obstetrics/gynaecology specialty Groningen University
• April 1996 – September 1996 gynaecologist Medical Center Leeuwarden.
• October 1996 member of staff gynaecology University Medical Center Utrecht
• March 2010 -2103 head of the department gynaecology and reproductive medicine of the division women and baby UMCU.
• 2012 Professor in urogynaecology at the University Utrecht
Other professional activities
• 2004 – 2010 Chairman of the “Dutch working party on pelvic floor and incontinence” of the Dutch Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. As chairman, the fourth official subspeciality “Urogynaecology” was devel-oped and recognized by the Dutch Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecolo-gy in November 2009.
• March 2002 – medical director Bergman Clinics female health (private en-terprise)
• Member of the board of the Dutch urogynaecology research consortium
• Chairman of the national multidisciplinary guideline on female urinary in-continence.
• Member of the scientific committee of the International Urogynaecologi-cal Association