Who is who

Mrs Margriet van Baar, PhD | Director

Margriet van Baar is a senior researcher in the field of clinical epidemiology related to burn injuries and head of the program Epidemiology, Registration and Economic Evaluation of the Association of Dutch Burn Centres.

She studied Human Movement Sciences (1989) at VU University, Amsterdam and did a Master in Epidemiology (1991). She obtained a PhD in health care research in 1998.

In the following years, she worked in the field of injury prevention and the organization and outcome of trauma care at Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, and University MC Utrecht. In these years she started her work in the field of burn injuries, studying functional outcome after burns.

Since april 2024, Margriet van Baar is the director of the ADBC and supervises all projects of the ADBC. Her main interest is in the epidemiology of burn injuries, and in the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of burn care. She is administrator of the Dutch Burn Repository R3, the clinical registry in the three burn centres in the Netherlands. She (co-) authored >90 peer reviewed publications and was co-promotor in 6 theses.

Mrs Prof Esther Middelkoop, PhD | Tissue engineering

Affiliation: Prof. Dr. Esther Middelkoop
Director Association of Dutch Burn Centers
Prof. Skin Regeneration & Wound Healing
Dept. Plastic, Reconstructive & Hand Surgery, Amsterdam Movement Sciences, AUMC
E-mail: [email protected], [email protected]

Professor Dr. Esther Middelkoop studied chemistry at the University of Utrecht and obtained a PhD in biochemistry.

She holds a chair in Skin Regeneration and Wound Healing at the Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery in Amsterdam.

Her special research focus is on Tissue Engineered Skin and Skin Replacement Materials, both in basic and in clinical research. Specific subjects are novel antimicrobial treatments, design and application of novel full skin substitutes, clinical research using Advanced Technology Medicinal Products, non-invasive measurement techniques, burn epidemiology and nationwide registration. Her specific subject is translation of basic research into clinical practice. Esther Middelkoop published > 180 scientific papers and is co-editor of the Open Access book: Textbook on Scar management. She is active in several scientific societies, editorial board member of Wound Repair and Regeneration and board member of the Global Scar Society.

Mr Bouke Boekema, PhD | Head preclinical research

Bouke Boekema studied Bioprocess Technology at Landbouw Universiteit Wageningen and he obtained a PhD in Infectious Diseases at Veterinary Faculty of Utrecht University in 2003. After a postdoc position at the Microbiology department of Utrecht University he moved to the preclinical research at the Association of Dutch Burn Centres in 2007.

He started a research line with a focus on gaining insight into the microbial issues encountered in burns and on testing and developing antimicrobial treatments. His interest is however not restricted to microbiology but includes various other aspects of burn care such as dermal substitutes and inflammation. This has resulted in 6 grants, 32 publications (12 as first author) in peer reviewed journals and 2 book chapters. He was co-promoter for one thesis, is active as a peer reviewer and received an award for outstanding reviewer in 2019> He is currently secretary in the board of the European Tissue Repair Society (ETRS).

Mrs Marianne Nieuwenhuis, PhD | Head clinical research/research coordinator Martini Hospital Groningen

Marianne Nieuwenhuis studied Human Movement Sciences at the University of Groningen and did her PhD at the Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital in Utrecht, including a project at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. She continued her research training as post-doc at the University of Delaware and the Rehabilitation department of the University Medical Centre of Groningen.

In 2001 she started at the Burn Centre of the Martini Hospital, as clinical scientist. Since the realisation of the Association of Dutch Burn centres in 2003, she is head of its Clinical Research Program and research coordinator at the Burn Centre of the Martini Hospital. Recently, she became professor at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences, with the Research group Healthy Ageing, Allied Health Care and Nursing. Her professional interests are in the areas of burns, physical functioning, rehabilitation, biomechanics and clinical research.

She initiated research specifically focussing on physical fitness and activity, to help meet the challenge of burn care of how best to enable people who have sustained a burn injury to return to their pre-injury functional status. Physical fitness and activity and its recovery after burn injury, remain key issues to be addressed, also in the coming years. On the one hand research will focus on underlying mechanisms; how is tissue, skin and specifically muscle, affected by burns, including subjects as inflammation and disuse, and on the other hand; how can treatment (exercise therapy, nutrition, etc.) best resolve this. Furthermore, there will be more explicit focus on how function, ability of patients is affected by impairments and treatment. To this end multidisciplinary collaboration of both care and science is imperative. Besides research, she enjoys training (PhD) students and working together with staff from a variety of disciplines as well as teaching subjects like Evidence Based Practice.

Mrs Anouk Pijpe, PhD | Epidemiologist/research, coordinator Red Cross Hospital Beverwijk

Anouk Pijpe studied Nutrition and Health at Wageningen University. After she obtained her MSc in January 2002, she fulfilled positions as junior and senior researcher at the Department of Epidemiology of the Maastricht University and the Departments of Psychosocial Research, Epidemiology and Pathology at the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI-AvL). In 2010, she obtained a PhD in breast cancer epidemiology. Before she started working as a research coordinator in the Red Cross Hospital, Beverwijk, she worked as scientific officer at the Health Council of the Netherlands in The Hague. She has a general interest in clinical epidemiology and methodology and is an active member of the Society for Epidemiology. Her professional interest in burn care covers clinical research, inflammation and metabolism, and long-term sequelae. She enjoys working in Dutch burn care and research because of the innovative and multidisciplinary environment and being able to actively contribute to high quality research and thereby improving burn care.

Since November 2007 she is working as head of the program Epidemiology, Registration and Economic Evaluation of the Association of Dutch Burn Centres, in Burn Centre Maasstad Hospital, Rotterdam. Her main interest is in the epidemiology of burn injuries, and in the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of burn care. She is administrator of the Dutch Burn Repository R3, the clinical registry in the three burn centres in the Netherlands. She (co-) authored >90 peer reviewed publications and was co-promotor in 6 theses.