prof. dr. K.W.M. (Kitty) Bloemenkamp
Full Professor
- Birth Center - Medical

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Professor Kitty W.M. Bloemenkamp is a Maternal Fetal Medicine Specialist and Chair Birth Centre, Wilhelmina’s Children Hospital, University Medical Centre Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Her Residency training programme in Obstetrics, Gynaecology and Reproductive Medicine was followed in Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden (1997-2002). Her PhD Thesis: "Oral contraceptives, venous thrombosis and the role of coagulation defects" was at the department of Clinical Epidemiology. Thereafter she became a Fellow Maternal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine at University College Hospitals, London, United Kingdom (2003). She was appointed as a maternal fetal medicine specialist at the department of Obstetrics of Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) (2004-2015).
Her main research interest is “Maternal Health” globally, the health of a woman throughout her (reproductive) lifecycle is investigated. From preconception, complicated (early) pregnancy, towards delivery, postpartum and consequences of these complications later in life. Especially maternal mortality and morbidity. She has been involved in designing, conducting, analysing and writing articles in several national and international research projects in the field of Obstetrics. Resulting in more than 200 publications in important medical journals. She is at present and has been Principal Investigator of several RCTs, case control, cohortstudies and experimental studies in the field of Maternal Health.
Member Board Dutch Consortium for Healthcare Evaluation and Research in Obstetrics and Gynecology - NVOG Consortium 2.0 (2003-2014), in which several large randomised controlled trials (grants from ZON MW) are completed (Hypitat, Digitat, STAN, Amphia, Ppromexil, Womb, Truffle, Apostel II, Probaat, Hypitat II, Hyras, Allopurinol, Totem, Hypitat II, Apostel I,II,III Protwin). And running Apostel VI, Glucomoms, Index etc. See http: http://www.studies -obsgyn.nl/home/page.asp?page_id=354.
She is the Chairman of Nethoss (Netherlands Obstetric Survey Study, nationwide ongoing registration study), Audit Committee of Maternal Mortality, Netherlands and of INOSS (International Network of Obstetric Survey Systems).
Research Output (219)
Punt Marieke C., Aalders Tanja H., Bloemenkamp Kitty W.M., Driessens Mariette H.E., Fischer Kathelijn, Schrijvers Marlies H., van Galen Karin P.M. 1 jul 2020, In: Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis. 18 , p. 1626-1636 11 p.
Verschueren Kim J C, Prüst Zita D, Paidin Raëz R, Kodan Lachmi R, Bloemenkamp Kitty W M, Rijken Marcus J, Browne Joyce L 7 mei 2020, In: Reproductive health. 17
Bos M., Harris-Mostert E. T.M.S., van der Meeren L. E., Baelde J. J., Williams D. J., Nikkels P. G.J., Bloemenkamp K. W.M., van der Hoorn M. L.P. 1 feb 2020, In: Placenta. 91 , p. 19-23 5 p.
Punt Marieke C., Schuitema Pauline C.E., Bloemenkamp Kitty W.M., Kremer Hovinga Idske C.L., van Galen Karin P.M. 1 jan 2020, In: Haemophilia. 26 , p. 216-227 12 p.
Snoek Rozemarijn, van der Graaf Rieke, Meinderts Jildau R, van Reekum Franka, Bloemenkamp Kitty W M, Knoers Nine V A M, van Eerde Albertien M, Lely A Titia 2020, In: Nephron. 144 , p. 185-189 5 p.
Ramler Paul I., Henriquez Dacia D.C.A., van den Akker Thomas, Caram-Deelder Camila, Groenwold Rolf H.H., Bloemenkamp Kitty W.M., van Roosmalen Jos, van Lith Jan M.M., van der Bom Johanna G., 1 nov 2019, In: Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica. 98 , p. 1473-1482 10 p.
Henriquez Dacia D.C.A., Caram-Deelder Camila, le Cessie Saskia, Zwart Joost J., van Roosmalen Jos J.M., Eikenboom Jeroen C.J., So-Osman Cynthia, van de Watering Leo M.G., Zwaginga Jaap Jan, Koopman-van Gemert Ankie W.M.M., Bloemenkamp Kitty W.M., van der Bom Johanna G., 1 nov 2019, In: JAMA network open. 2
Fitzpatrick Kathryn E, van den Akker Thomas, Bloemenkamp Kitty W M, Deneux-Tharaux Catherine, Kristufkova Alexandra, Li Zhuoyang, Schaap Timme P, Sullivan Elizabeth A, Tuffnell Derek, Knight Marian nov 2019, In: PLoS Medicine. 16
Heestermans Tessa, Payne Beth, Kayode Gbenga Ayodele, Amoakoh-Coleman Mary, Schuit Ewoud, Rijken Marcus J., Klipstein-Grobusch Kerstin, Bloemenkamp Kitty, Grobbee Diederick E., Browne Joyce L. 30 okt 2019, In: BMJ global health. 4
Punt M. C., Waning M. L., Mauser-Bunschoten E. P., Kruip M. J.H.A., Eikenboom J., Nieuwenhuizen L., Makelburg A. B.U., Driessens M. H.E., Duvekot J. J., Peters M., Middeldorp J. M., Bloemenkamp K. W.M., Schutgens R. E.G., Lely A. T., Van Galen K. P.M. 24 okt 2019, In: Blood Reviews. 39 9 p.