Faculty

Ivo de Blaauw went to medical school at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. After medical school he started as resident in surgery and tropical medicine and worked for Medicine sans Frontiere (MSF) at Mekele General Hospital in Ethiopia. After returning to the Netherlands he worked in the laboratory to write a thesis on protein and amino acid metabolism in cancer at the Maastricht University. He continued his surgical career in Eindhoven, Maastricht and Nijmegen, where he started to work as pediatric surgeon at the Amalia Children’s Hospital-Radboudumc. For two years he worked at ErasmusMC-Sophia Children’s Hospital (Rotterdam) with a focus on pediatric colorectal surgery.

In 2014 he became head of the pediatric surgical department of the Radboudumc-Amalia Children’s Hospital in Nijmegen. The department is recognized as center of expertise in the Netherlands and Europe for pediatric colorectal diseases, congenital diaphragmatic hernia’s (CDH) and vascular malformations. Since 2016 he was appointed as professor in pediatric surgery at the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

His teaching career has been international for the last 10 years and includes teaching courses for students, nurses and surgical residents and surgeons. This with a clear focus on anorectal malformations and Hirschsprung Disease.
Research is also has a focus on pediatric colorectal diseases, CDH and vasculair malformations. Research is mainly clinical on outcome and improving the care of these patients. International collaboration with other surgeons and centers is essential. He collaborates in ARM-net with many dedicated colorectal surgeons, patient representatives, epidemiologists and genetecists (ARMnet.eu). He is also participating in European Reference Networks (eUROGEN, ERNICA) of which in one of them he coordinates the network.
He has written more than 180 peer reviewed international papers and several book chapters in pediatric surgical books.