Background
Birkenhäger, Willem Hendrikus was born on March 8, 1927 in Heiloo, The Netherlands. Son of Willem Hendrikus and Margaretha Carolina (Choufoer) Birkenhäger.
Birkenhäger, Willem Hendrikus was born on March 8, 1927 in Heiloo, The Netherlands. Son of Willem Hendrikus and Margaretha Carolina (Choufoer) Birkenhäger.
Medical intern, University Hospital, Amsterdam, 1950-1952; resident in internal medicine, University Hospital, Amsterdam, 1976; Doctor of Medicine, U. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1952; Doctor of Philosophy, U. Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1953.
Deputy department head clinic internal medicine University Hospital, Amsterdam, 1958-1965. Head department internal medicine Municipal Hospital Zuiderziekenhuis, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1966-1987. Professor, personal chair Erasmus University, 1974-1992, professor emeritus, since 1992.
Chairman hypertension committee National Health Council, The Netherlands, 1976—1983. Coordinator ethical committee Systolic Hypertension in Elderly Trial (Syst-Eur), 1989—2002. Captain National Army, 1952-1954.
Member Disciplinary Board Medicine, Rotterdam, 1975-1978, Supervising Board Internal Medicine, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1975-1978. Member of the Board of Governors Rotterdamsch Lyceum, 1989-1992. Captain National Army, 1952-1954.
Fellow American Heart Association (fellow county on high blood pressure research since 1979), International Society Hypertension (Geneva, vice president 1980-1982), European Society Hypertension (Milan, founding president 1989-1991), European Working Party on High Blood Pressure in Elderly (founding), Netherlands Society Hypertension (founding president 1975-1977), Netherlands Medical Journal Association (chairman 1987-1989), Royal Academy Medicine in Belgium (foreign).
Children from previous marriage: Bastiaan, Marjan. Married Ida Sibrig Bangma, March 25, 1975. Children: Willem, Arnold, Laurens.