Annemarie van Rossum

Organisation:
Sophia Children's Hospital of the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam
Department:
Pediatrics
Job Title:
Professor of Paediatric Infectious Diseases & Vice Chair of Pediatrics
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Biography:

Annemarie van Rossum is Professor of Paediatric Infectious Diseases. She obtained her MD and PhD (cum laude) at the Erasmus University Rotterdam (prof. R.de Groot).

From 2004 - 2005 she was a research fellow 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 Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology in Rotterdam. She received several personal grants to start a translational research line 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 research lines focus on respiratory (specifically M. pneumoniae infections) and neonatal infections aiming to develop innovative diagnostic tools to guide appropriate treatment and prevent antibiotic resistance through targeted treatment.