Prof. Dr. Anita Boelen received her BSc in Medical Biology
from the University of Groningen in 1990 and her PhD in Medicine from the
University of Amsterdam in 1996. She is now a Professor in the Endocrine
Laboratory, Amsterdam Gastroenterology Endocrinology Metabolism (AGEM) Research
Institute, University of Amsterdam. Dr. Boelen’s major research topic is
thyroid hormone metabolism and action, especially during inflammation.
Annemieke Heijboer is a Professor of Endocrine
Laboratory Medicine and head of the Endocrine Laboratory at the Amsterdam UMC
in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She obtained her PhD at Leiden University in the
Netherlands in 2006 and went to Amsterdam (VU University Medical Center) to be
trained as a clinical chemist with a later specialization in endocrinology.
Since 2010 she has headed the Endocrine Laboratory of the VU University
Medical Center, which she merged with the Laboratory of
Endocrinology of the Amsterdam Medical Center, being the Endocrine Laboratory of the
Amsterdam UMC since 2018. From 2015 until 2019 she was the President of the Dutch Society for Endocrinology. She is a member of the Bone Committee of the IFCC and
chair of the Endocrine Committee of the Dutch Society for Clinical Chemistry.
Her interests are clinical chemistry and hormones, with a special interest in
steroid and thryoid hormones.
