Vincent Hendriks is professor by special appointment of Addiction and Psychiatric Comorbidity at the Department of Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC Curium). In addition to his work at the LUMC, he is research director of the Parnassia Addiction Research Centre (PARC) of Brijder Addiction Care, part of the Parnassia Psychiatric Institute. Furthermore, he is member of the scientific board of the Netherlands Centre of Expertise on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and scientific board member of the Dutch Addiction Association, the national centre of expertise on addiction treatment.

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Vincent Hendriks is professor by special appointment of Addiction and Psychiatric Comorbidity at the Department of Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC Curium). In addition to his work at the LUMC, he is research director of the Parnassia Addiction Research Centre (PARC) of Brijder Addiction Care, part of the Parnassia Psychiatric Institute. Furthermore, he is member of the scientific board of the Netherlands Centre of Expertise on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and scientific board member of the Dutch Addiction Association, the national centre of expertise on addiction treatment.

Psychiatrie

With his chair at LUMC, Vincent Hendriks aims to stimulate research and education in the field of addiction in both adolescents and adults and to strengthen the collaboration between psychiatry, addiction care and the academic setting. The main focus of his scientific work is on research into the effectiveness of existing and new, innovative treatments for addiction, the life course of addiction and comorbid mental disorders from adolescence to adulthood, and the development of multidisciplinary guidelines in the field of addiction. In addition to research, he teaches in the field of addiction at LUMC and Leiden University.

Wetenschappelijke carrière

After his study at the University of Groningen at the end of the 1970's, Vincent Hendriks conducted his doctoral research at the Medical Faculty of Erasmus University Rotterdam. He received his PhD in 1990 for his doctoral thesis 'Addiction and psychopathology: A multidimensional approach to clinical practice'. He subsequently held a position as research coordinator of the Institute for Addiction Research in Rotterdam, and as senior scientist of the Central Committee on the Treatment of Heroin Addicts (CCBH). In this latter function, he was one of the senior researchers who developed and conducted the trials on medically prescribed heroin for chronic, treatment-refractory heroin addicted patients, which were commissioned by the former minister of Health of the Netherlands Els Borst. In addition to his work at the CCBH, Vincent Hendriks became research director of the Parnassia Addiction Research Centre (PARC) of Brijder Addiction Care, Parnassia Psychiatric Institute in 1997, a position that he currently still holds. In June 2015 he was appointed Professor of Addiction and Psychiatric Comorbidity in Adolescents of LUMC, and in his second term as professor, this chair was broadened to both adolescents and adults. The title of his inaugural lecture was ‘From an early age. The importance of the early developmental stages of addiction'. In addition to seven books and 18 book chapters as a first or last author, Vincent Hendriks has published more than 80 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals, including a paper as senior author on a new treatment of cocaine addiction in the medical journal The Lancet (2016).

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