Jan MM van Lith is professor and chair of Obstetrics, member of the Board of Division3, and chair of the Board of trainees/residency education of the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). He is president of the Netherlands College of Obstetrics & Gynaecology (NVOG) and member of the Supervisory Board of GGZinGeest.

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Jan MM van Lith is professor and chair of Obstetrics, member of the Board of Division3, and chair of the Board of trainees/residency education of the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). He is president of the Netherlands College of Obstetrics & Gynaecology (NVOG) and member of the Supervisory Board of GGZinGeest.

Obstetrics

Healty ageing starts in utero. Obstetrics developed from birthmechanism to fetal and maternal medicine. More knowledge of fetal development led to continuously improvement of fetal  diagnosis and therapy. How amazing that the mother is not rejecting her child, while a transplanted kidney leads to rejection? Pregnancy has great influence on the mother, not only during pregnancy and shortly after birth, but also later in life. Jan van Lith is actively involved in several scientific projects and this is an important topic of the national scientific agenda (NWA).

Academic career

Jan MM van Lith absolved medical school at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. He defended his PhD thesis in 1992: ‘first trimester screening for Down’s syndrome’. He was trained as gynaecologist in Amsterdam (AMC/OLVG) and studied 3 months epidemiology in Leeds. In 2006 he was appointed as professor of Obstetrics  at the University of Amsterdam in 2006 and changed to Leiden in 2008 being appointed as professor. He has over 100 scientific publications. He held several offices at national and international scientific organisations, e.g. President of the International Society of Prenatal Diagnosis and Therapy (ISPD). He was member of several committees of the Dutch Health Council.