Amsterdam Gastroenterology Endocrinology Metabolism

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Emmely de Vries, PhD

Emmely studied Biomedical Sciences at Utrecht University, followed by a master in Neuroscience and Cognition.
She wrote her PhD thesis on the effect of inflammation and fasting on thyroid hormone metabolism at the University of Amsterdam in the group of Prof. dr. Eric Fliers.
After a 3 year postdoc on the effects of food intake on the metabolism of medicines under the supervision of Anita Boelen en Hans Romijn, she left academia to pursue a career which was more placed on the interface of science and society.
Emmely has worked with the CBG-MEB as a clinical assessor since 2018, specialized in the assessment of rare metabolic disorders and endocrinology. Since the end of 2023 she is the Dutch member of the Committee for Advanced Therapies and as such contributes to the approval process of advanced therapeutics in the EU.

Joëlle Oosterman, MD, PhD

Joëlle Oosterman is a postdoctoral researcher and obesity physician at the department of Internal Medicine at the Obesity Center CGG in the Erasmus MC.
Previously, she did research in the field of chronobiology. During her PhD (thesis 2017, Amsterdam UMC), she assessed the effects of timing of food intake on metabolism and the biological clock.
After her PhD she worked as scientist at TNO Leiden for five years where she was involved in a variety of studies focusing on lifestyle as medicine. She combined her research work with a parttime position as physician at the Nederlandse Obesitas Kliniek.
She recently made the switch back to academia where her research focuses on the regulation of stress hormones and especially on diurnal cortisol rhythms.