Curriculum Vitae
Name and titles: Professor Daan Kromhout MSc, MPH, PhD
Date of birth: 17 January 1950
Present positions
2010-present Academy Professor of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences
2007-present Adjunct-Professor, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
2005-present Professor of Public Health Research, Wageningen University
2005-present Vice-President of the Health Council of the Netherlands
Past positions
1994-2005 RIVM Professor of Public Health Research,Wageningen University
1984-1994 Nutrition Foundation Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Leiden University
2002-2005 Director Nutrition and Consumer Safety Division, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven
1991-2002 Director Division of Public Health Research, RIVM, Bilthoven
1988-1991 Head Department of Epidemiology, RIVM, Bilthoven
1986-1988 Acting Chairperson Institute of Social Medicine, Leiden University
1977-1984 Assistant and Associate Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology, Leiden University
Honours and Awards
2011 David Kritchevsky Lecture awarded by the Nutrition, Phyical Activity and Metabolism Council of the American Heart Association, Atlanta , USA
2009 Awarded Academy Professor of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
2005 Grant awarded by the National Institute of Health, USA for the Alpha Omega Trial
1999 Career Award of the Netherlands Federation of Medical Scientific Societies
1998 Silver Medal of the European Society of Cardiology
1997 Honor Award of Excellence of the Oldways Preservation & Exchange Trust, Boston, USA
1990 CURSIEF Annie B. Cunning Lecture awarded by the Royal Australisian College of Physicians, Melbourne Australia
1989 Liga Nutrition Prize awarded by the Netherlands Nutrition Foundation
1980 Travel grant for one-year stay at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA, awarded by NWO (Netherlands Organization for Research)
Evaluation of international research institutes
2007 Evaluation Committee Division of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, National Institute of Public Health, Helsinki, Finland (member)
1997 Evaluation Committee Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany (member)
1995 Evaluation Committee National Institute of Public Health, Helsinki, Finland (member)
Committees and offices toevoegen?
Invited keynote and plenary lectures WEG?
Daan delivers yearly approximately 5 keynote or plenary lectures in international conferences:
- Yearly Congress of the European Society of Cardiology
- Preventive Cardiology Conferences
- Conferences of Nutrition Societies
- Conferences of Epidemiologic Societies
- Conferences organized by the European Union on Nutrition or Preventive Cardiology
- Invited lectures at renowned research institutes as Harvard School of Public Health,Boston and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine