December
2005
Volume 2, Issue 3
From the editor
Editorial
Meet the team
Dr Sijmen Arend
Duursma
Original
Contribution/Clinical Investigation
Increased
leukocyte
rigidity in the elderly
Parkinson's
disease
and related movement disorders
Models
and Systems
of Elderly Care
Study
of Relation
between Knowledge,
Attitude and Practice
of the Elderly with
Their General Health in
Tehran
Education
and
Training
Renal
Failure
Conference
5th European
Congress of
Biogerontology
Abdulrazak
Abyad MD,
MPH, MBA,
AGSF
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Dr Sijmen Arend Duursma
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Born on April
11th, 1935, Groningen, the Netherlands.
Medical
education at the Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, the Netherlands, started in
September 1st, 1954.
Assistant
teacher for anatomy for medical students at the Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht,
September 1956 to June 1959.
Final examination
medical education at the Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, the Netherlands; May
18th, 1962.
Married
with Johanna Augusta Nolle. in 's Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, June
20th, 1962.
Teacher
at the School for Medical Officers, Royal Army of the Netherlands, July
1st, 1962 to July 1st, 1963.
Senior House
Officer at the Department of Radiology, Military Hospital 'dr A. Matthijssen',
Utrecht, July 1st, 1963 to December 1st, 1964.
Senior House
Officer at the Department of Internal Medicine, Utrecht University Hospital,
December 1st, 1964 to January 1st, 1969.
Member Research
of the 'Research Group for Metabolic Bone Diseases', Utrecht University
Hospital, March 1st, 1965, head of the Research Group, July 1st, 1970
to December 1st, 1994.
Registered
as Specialist Internal Medicine, January 1st, 1969.
Chef de
Clinique at the department of Internal Medicine, Utrecht University Hospital,
January 1st, 1969 to July 1st, 1970.
Consultant
at the Foundation for Home Dialyses, Utrecht, January 1st, 1969 to January
1st, 1970.
Chef de
Policlinique at the department of Internal Medicine, Utrecht University
Hospital, July 1st, 1970 to July 1st, 1972.
Thesis at
the Utrecht University, June 1st, 1971; subject 'Metabolic bone disease
in patients with impaired renal function'.
Medical
Adviser of the Life Assurance Company 'Fortis', May 1st, 1972 to April
1st, 2000.
Professor
of Internal Medicine, Utrecht University, July 1st, 1972 to August 1st,
1991.
Member of
the editorial board of the 'Folia Medica Neerlandica', September 1st,1972
to September 1st, 1975.
Board member
of the College of General Practitioners, September 1st, 1972 to September
1st, 1976.
Chairman
of the Committee for Continuing Medical Education for the Ministry of
Education and Science and the Ministry of Wellbeing, Health Care and Environmental
Hygiene, July 1st, 1975 to July 1st, 1982.
Board member
of the Rehabilitation Hospital 'de Hooghstraat', Utrecht, May 1st, 1988
to December 1st, 1995.
Manager
in chief for the integration of the Military Hospital 'dr A. Matthijssen'
and the Utrecht University Hospital, April 1st, 1989 to June 1st, 1992.
Vice-chairman
of the Organising Committee and chairman of the Scientific Committee of
the 16th International Congress of Life Assurance Medicine, the Hague,
21-25 May 1989.
Initiator
and chairman of the Dutch National 'Osteoporosis Foundation', January
1st, 1991 to October 1st, 1997.
Professor
of Clinical Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Utrecht University, August
1st, 1991 to April 1st, 2000.
Head of
the Department of Geriatric Medicine, Utrecht University Hospital, July
1st, 1992 to January 1st, 1999.
Inaugural
lecture at the Utrecht University, September 18th, 1992; title 'How do
you want to grow old?'
Head for
the specialist training for geriatric medicine, Utrecht University Hospital,
July 1st, 1992 to January 1st, 1999.
Chairman
of the national 'Foundation for Health for Older People', January 1st,
1993 to June 6th, 2000.
Member of
the Group of European Professors in Medical Gerontology, January 28th,
1993 to June 28 th, 2002.
Registered as Specialist Geriatric Medicine, March 5th, 1993.
'First Category
Award' of the Scientific Committee FISO and Sandoz Pharma ltd, for clinical
and laboratory research and the contribution to the understanding of osteoporosis,
Hong Kong, March 27 th, 1993.
'Cross of
Honour of the Family Order of Orange', the private order of the Dutch
royal family, May 2nd, 1995.
Member of
the excecutive board of the European Academy for Medicine of Ageing, for
training teachers in geriatric medicine, December 10th, 1993 to June 28th
2002.
Member of
the International Advisory Board of the international geriatric medicine
journal 'Age and Ageing', since August 1st, 1994.
Member of
the Concilium Geriatricum for specialist training in geriatric medicine
in the Netherlands, October 3rd, 1994 to December 7th, 1998; chairman
of the Concilium Geriatricum, February 19th, 1996 to December 7th, 1998.
Member of
the Scientific Committee of the III rd European Congress of the International
Association for Gerontology, Amsterdam, August 29th to September 2nd,
1995.
Member of
the Local Organising Committee of the Worldcongress on Osteoporosis, Amsterdam,
May 18th to 23rd 1996.
President
of the Geriatric Medicine Section of the European Union of Medical Specialists
for specialist training in geriatric medicine, March 22nd, 1997 to May
5 th , 2002.
'Honorary
Chairman' of the Dutch Osteoporosis Foundation, October 1st, 1997.
member of
the Academic Senate of the Gerontological Economic Research Organisation,
October 17th, 1998, to June th , 2002.
'Knight
of the Dutch Lion', a Dutch national order, April 1st, 2000.
Specialist
geriatric medicine Utrecht University Hospital, University Medical Center,
since April 1st, 2000.
'Honorary
Member' of the Dutch Society for Geriatric Medicine, October 29th, 2000.
Member of
the board of the European Union Geriatric Medicine Society, November 22nd,
2000 to April th , 2002.
Member of
the excecutive board of the Middle East Academy for Medicine of Ageing,
for training teachers in geriatric medicine, from November 1th, 2001 to
July 11th, 2005 and advisor of the board since July 11th, 2005 July.
Advisor
to the editorial board of the Middle Eastern Journal of Age and Ageing,
since November 12 th, 2003.
Advisor
of the board of the European Nursing Academy for Care of Older People,
since June
10 th 2004.
Decorations Sijmen Arend Duursma
'First Category Award', by the Scientific Committee FISO and Sandoz Pharma ltd, for clinical and laboratory research and the contribution to the understanding of osteoporosis, Hong Kong, March 27 th, 1993.
'Cross of
Honour of the House Order of Orange', the private order of the Dutch royal
family for special services to the royal family, May 2nd, 1995.
'Honorary Chairman' of the Dutch Osteoporosis Foundation as the initiator, founder and first president of the foundation, October 1st, 1997.
'Knight
of the Dutch Lion', a Dutch governmental and royal order for special achievement
of national importance, April 1st, 2000.
'Honorary Member' of the Dutch Society for Geriatric Medicine for the stimulation of the development of geriatric medicine, October 29th, 2000.