| Name: |
Th.J.M. Verheij, MD, PhD |
| Function: |
Professor of General Practice |
| Department: |
Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care |
| E-mail address: |
T.J.M.Verheij-2@umcutrecht.nl |
| Phone number: |
+31 (0) 88 75 68188 |
| Fax number: |
- |
| Visiting address: |
UMC Utrecht
Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care
Heidelberglaan 100
3584 CX Utrecht
Room: STR 6.111 |
| Correspondence: |
Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care
Room: STR 6.131
PO Box 85500
3508 GA Utrecht
The Netherlands |
Biographical sketch
After his medical training in Leiden Theo Verheij was a general practitioner in Noordwijk. In 1995 he obtained a PhD degree at Leiden University by writing a thesis on acute bronchitis in general practice. In 1997 he was appointed full professor and chair of the department of general practice at the University Medical Center Utrecht.
Theo Verheij is a member of the editorial boards of the British Journal of General Practice and of Huisarts en Wetenschap, the journal of the Dutch College of General Practitioners. Among his advisory functions are memberships of the Advisory Board of the Royal Dutch Medical Association and the Advisory Board of the Dutch College of General Practitioners.
Interests and focus
The main scientific interests of Theo Verheij are respiratory tract infections and antibiotic use in primary care. He was and is involved in many observational and intervention studies in this field. He is member of the board of the Dutch Working Party on Antibiotic Use and first author of the national guidelines on lower respiratory tract infections in primary care.
On an international level Theo Verheij is one of the principal investigators of the EU funded network of excellence called GRACE, a consortium that studies the management of lower respiratory tract infections in primary care and the aetiology and genetic backgrounds of bacterial resistance. In addition he is coordinator of an EU funded study on antibiotic use in primary care.
Theo Verheij was one of the founders and first chair of the General practice Respiratory infections Network (GRIN). He is a member of the working party on guidelines on adult lower respiratory tract infections of the European Respiratory Society(ERS)/European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) and chair of the ESCMID Study-group on Primary Care Topics. He supervised 15 PhD students and published over 90 papers in peer-reviewed journals.
Key publications
Please visit his personal page at the
Julius Center website.
Related links http://www.GRACE-lrti.org