Arie Franx

Prof. Arie Franx, medical career started in 1988 as AIOS obstetrics / gynecology at the St. Elisabeth Hospital in Tilburg after studying medicine at the Free University in Amsterdam (doctor’s exam taken in 1988). His specialization in gynecology began in the Academic Hospital in Utrecht in 1991. In 1997 he was registered as a gynecologist, and has since worked in the UMC Utrecht, the St. Elisabeth Hospital in Tilburg, and Erasmus MC in Rotterdam.
Since 2010, Professor Franx has worked in the UMC Utrecht as Division President Obstetrics, university educator and medical manager of the Division of Woman and Baby. He received his promotion on March 11, 1997 at Utrecht University with the thesis, “Measurement and clinical significance of blood pressure in pregnancy”. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. G.H.A. Visser and Prof. Dr. J.M.W.M. Merkus.