Background
Kerrebijn, Karel Ferdinand was born on April 1, 1929.
Kerrebijn, Karel Ferdinand was born on April 1, 1929.
Medical qualifying examination, University Utrecht (the Netherlands), 1954. Doctor of Philosophy, Leiden (the Netherlands) University, 1964.
Intern department pediatrics University Hospital Leiden, 1956-1960. Pediatrician Queen Juliana Children's Hospital, the Hague, the Netherlands, 1960-1969, Erasmus University Medical School, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 1967, associate professor pediatric respiratory medicine, 1970, professor pediatric respiratory medicine, 1981. Dean faculty of medicine and health science Erasmus University, since 1990, also member executive board.
Vice chairman Science Council of Dutch Asthma Fund, 1970-1976, chairman, 1977-1988. Chairman medical council Dutch Cystic Fibrosis Association, 1972-1977. Member science committee Working Group on Epidemiology of Chronic Respiratory Disease, Health Research Organization The Netherlands Organization, 1968-1980.
Member World Health Organization Working Group on the Study of Chronic Respiratory Diseases in Children in Relation to Air Pollution, 1970. Member Science Council of the Beecham Fund, 1974-1986. Member executive board Health Research Organization The Netherlands Organization, 1976-1980, member of executive, 1977-1980, vice chairman, 1978-1979.
Fellow Royal Society Medicine (London), American College Chest Physicians. Member Dutch Paediatric Society, Dutch Society Pulmonary Medicine, Dutch Flemish Society Infectious Diseases, Dutch Society Clinical Physiology and Pharmacology, European Society for Clinical Investigation, European Academy Allergy and Clinical Immunology, European Working Group on Cystic Fibrosis, British Paediatric Respiration Group, American Thoracic Society, European Society Clinical Respiratory Physiology, European Society Pulmonology, British Thoracic Society.