Annemarie van Rossum

Annemarie van Rossum is a pediatrician, specialized in infectious diseases and immunology, professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and vice chair of the Department of Pediatrics, at the Sophia Children’s Hospital of the Erasmus MC University Medical Centre in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. She obtained her MD and PhD (cum laude) at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (prof. R.de Groot). She is the recipient of several awards. During her residency in Paediatrics at the Erasmus MC University Medical Centre, she did a research fellowship at the Weiser laboratory of the department of Microbiology (Prof. J.N. Weiser) of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. From 2009-2011 she was trained in Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology in Rotterdam. She received several Fellowship awards to combine her clinical fellowship with starting a translational researchline on respiratory tract infections caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae. At the same time she started an international intervention trial on early onset neonatal sepsis  together with M. Stocker, head of the PICU in Luzern, Switzerland, that was published in the Lancet in 2017 (www.nest-net.org). Her two current researchlines focus on respiratory (specifically M. pneumoniae infections) and neonatal infections and aim at the development of innovative diagnostic tools to guide appropriate treatment and prevent antibiotic resistance through targeted treatment. Both researchlines range from fundamental laboratory research to large international clinical studies and implementation of research findings in daily clinical practice (CE marked NeoPInS app launched in 2020). She is co-founder of Training Upcoming Leaders in Paediatric Science (www.tulipsforchildhealth.nl) an educational program that stimulates young clinician-scientists to perform high-quality research with impact on child health. From 2013-2017 she was member of the committee for scientific affairs and awards of the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID). Currently she is member of the advisory board on antibiotic resistance health care networks for the ministery of Health in the Netherlands, member of the organising committee of the ESPID-Oxford course Hot topics in infection and Immunity in children, University of Oxford, examination assessor for the University of Oxford postgraduate MSc program Paediatric Infectious Diseases, and chair of the local organising committee of the ESPID meeting in 2020.    

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