CURRICULUM VITAE

TRAINING AND QUALIFICATIONS

PRESENT APPOINTMENTS

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• Bergman Clinics: Womens Health
• "de Rode Luifel"
• Meibergdreef 9
• 1105 AZ AMSTERDAM-Zuidoost, Nederland
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• Owner & Director Thurkow Consultancy & Training
• Private Company for Consultancy (Health care professionals, Medical Device Industry, etc) & Training
•       (Ob/gyn specialists, Medical Devices Industry)
• www.thurkow.com
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• Additional Activities
• Principle investigator and coordinator in various studies, esp. in the areas mentioned before and in the area of medical devices and innovation.
• Preceptor for Gynaecological Endoscopy & Minimal Invasive Gynaecology.

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS AND EXPERIENCE

ADDITIONAL AND MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS

• Owner & CEO “Thurkow Consulting & Training”
• President taskforce innovations and ergonomy Dutch Soc Gyn Endoscopy (WGE)
• Ovalastic hysteroscopic sterilization trainer (national and international)
• Consultant Ethicon, Johnson & Johnson.
• Member Advisory Board for Hysteroscopy Gynecare (Division of Ethicon inc., Johnson & Johnson)
• Member International Advisory Board Energy EMEA Ethicon, Johnson & Johnson
• Trainer for Ethicon Endo-Surgery (Harmonic Ace & EnSeal, national and international)
• Member Olympus Surgical Advisory Group for Gynaecology
• Member Olympus Advisory Board Hysteroscopy
• Member Advisory Board for Hysteroscopic Sterilisation Vasorum Medical Device Research and Development.
• Member Hologic Advisory Board for minimally invasive procedures
• Member Esmya Advisory Board
• Member Mycena (Myoma Centre Amsterdam)
• Faculty member national ob/gyn training programme for Hysteroscopy and Laparoscopy (basic and advanced)
• Faculty member ESGE training programme for Hysteroscopy and Laparoscopy
• Principal investigator in multiple studies
• Board member and incoming president charity foundation “Thurkowfonds”

• President of the Dutch Society of Gynaecological Endoscopy (WGE)
• Member International Advisory Board of the AAGL
• Chairman of the ESGE Communication Section
• Member Advisory Board ESGE
• Editor in chief Webforum ESGE
• Member of the Editorial board J Gynecological Surgery
• Member taskforce innovations ESGE
• Board member and Secretary of the hospital board of medical specialists SLAZ
• Member Working group Minimal Invasive Surgery OR SLAZ
• Founder and president Working group Minimal Invasive Surgery OR SLAZ
• Ovabloc hysteroscopic sterilization trainer
• Essure hysteroscopic sterilization trainer (national and international)
• Trainer for Versapoint hysteroscopic surgery, endometrial ablation and laparoscopic surgery Gynecare. (Division of Ethicon inc., Johnson & Johnson), national & international.
• Member internationale Faculty for LESS training (Laparo-Endoscopic Single Site Surgery)
• Member Clinical Evaluation Committee “Therapeutic MRI-guided High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Ablation of Uterine Fibroids” Philips Medical Systems MR Finland
• Trainer (national and international) and Member Dutch Expert Group for Adiana hysteroscopic sterilization
• Founder and President of the Amsterdam Association of Ob/Gyn
• Member Advisory Board for Hysteroscopic Sterilisation Chiroxia Medical Device Research and Development.
• Board member of the Dutch Association of Residents in Ob/Gyn (VAGO)
• Member of the Teaching Council of the Dutch College of Ob/Gyn (NVOG)
• Member of the NVOG Committee for differentiation in Ob/Gyn training
• President orginazing committee local ESGE congres Amsterdam 2008
• Board member and Secretary Round Table 5 Amsterdam

Organizer of national & international courses in the SLAZ/OLVG West:

• One stop office diagnosis & therapy of AUB (theory, practice, live session)
• Versapoint training (theory, hands-on training and OR)
• Essure training (theory, hands-on training and office procedures)
• Adiana (theory, hands-on training and office procedures)
• Laparoscopic surgery with Enseal (theory, hands-on training and OR, national and international)
• Laparoscopic surgery with 3D laparoscopy & Thunderbeat (theory, animate hands-on training and OR,
  national and international), the St Lucas Andreas Hospital has been chosen to become an international
  Olympus Centre of Excellence for minimal invasice surgery.
• various workshops gynaecologic endoscopic surgery

MEMBERSHIPS

• KNMG (Dutch College of Ob/Gyn)
• NVOG (Royal Dutch Medical Association)
• NVEC (Dutch Society for Endoscopic Surgery)
• EAES (Eur. Association for Endoscopic Surgery)
• ISGE (Int. Soc. Gyn. Endoscopy)
• ESGE (European Soc. Gyn. Endoscopy)
• AAGL (American Association of Gyn. Laparoscopists)
• NSGE (Nordic Society on Gynaecological Endoscopy)