Wouter C. Meijers

Dr. Wouter C. Meijers obtained his medical degree at the Maastricht University. After which he was granted a PhD position at the (experimental) cardiology department of prof. de Boer and prof. van Veldhuisen, which he later on defended cum laude. His translational studies focused on heart failure and more specifically on cardio-oncology. He pioneered on the reciprocal relationship between cancer and heart failure. Furthermore, he founded the more specialized field of cardio-immuno-oncology. He obtained several national and international grands and awards which helped him to pursue his research career. He was the first Dutch cardiologist in training whom performed a post-doctoral fellowship in the field of cardio-oncology at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, USA with prof. Moslehi. He is currently fellow of both the European Society of Cardiology as the Heart Failure Association. He recently transferred to Rotterdam, the Erasmus Medical Center to further train himself within (advanced) heart failure and cardio-oncology and to start his own research group.