prof. dr. Peter Siersema

About Peter Siersema

Peter Siersema (Delft, 1959) graduated cum laude in 1984 at the Erasmus University. He was a student internship at St. Mary's Hospital London, Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem and Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. From 1985 to 1994, Siersema was trained as an internist and afterwards as a gastrointestinal and liver doctor (MDL physician) in the Academic Hospital Rotterdam - Dijkzigt. Part of this training took place at the Department of Internal Medicine at the Charing Cross Hospital in London. Siersema obtained his doctorate in 1993 at the Erasmus University on a partly clinical, partly biochemical study of liver abnormalities in porphyria, a metabolic disorder of the production of haem.

From 1995 to 2007, Siersema worked as an MDL doctor and researcher at the Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases department of Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, since 2003 as head of the gastrointestinal endoscopy department. In that period he was also a guest professor at Stanford University in the United States for over a year. In 2007, Siersema left for UMC Utrecht where he was appointed professor and head of the gastrointestinal and hepatic diseases department.Siersema received several awards for his work, including the Gastrointestinal Research Award from the NVGE (1999, 2014) and the Outstanding Manuscript Award from the ASGE (2011). He held the Endoscopy Foundation Lecture for the British Society of Gastroenterology in 2014 and is an honorary member of the Indian Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. Siersema is the author or co-author of more than 500 PubMed-cited publications and supervised 40 PhD students in obtaining a doctor's degree in medicine.

Education

• 1972-1979 Secondary school (Erasmus College, Zoetermeer)
• 1978-1985 University (Medicine, Erasmus University, cum laude)
• 1985-1990 Specialization in Internal Medicine (Academic Hospital Rotterdam-Dijkzigt and a year as a fellow at Charing Cross Hospital, London (UK))
• 1990-1994 Specialization Gastroenterology and Hepatology (Academisch Ziekenhuis Rotterdam-Dijkzigt)
• 1993 PhD (Erasmus University, Rotterdam). Prof. H.G. van Eijk, prof. J.H.P. Wilson. Title thesis: The liver in uroporphyria: A biochemical and morphological study

Additional Functions

• Chairman of the Dutch Association for Gastroenterology (NVGE)
• Board member of the Dutch Society for Gastroenterologists (NVMDL)
• Board Member of the Dutch Upper GI Cancer Group (DUCG)
• Board member of the Board of Supervisors of the Stomach Liver Foundation (MDLS)
• Board member of the Advisory Board of SPKS Colon Cancer
• President of the European Society for Diseases of the Esophagus (ESDE)
• Board member of the International Society for Diseases of the Esophagus (ISDE)
• Board member of the European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE)
• Chairman of Dutch guideline committee on Barrett's esophagus, esophageal carcinoma and gastric carcinoma
• Member of the scientific committee of the Dutch Upper GI Cancer Audit (DUCA)
• Member of the Advisory Council of the 'Koningin Wilhelmina Fonds' (KWF)
• Editor in chief of Endoscopy