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She is the principle tutor of Ob/Gyn residents and residents in training for tropical medicine. Her main focuses are: perinatal medicine, prenatal diagnosis and psycho-obstetrics. Her thesis in 1999 carried the title ‘Stress exposure and pregnancy outcome: A psychosocial and biochemical study’. She has been President of the Dutch Working Party on Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology, a Working Party of the Dutch Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, from 2004 until 2009. Since 2010, she is the President of the International Society of Psychosomatic Obstetrics and Gynaecology. She is one of the initiators of the National Knowledge Centre of Psychiatry and Pregnancy (Landelijk Kenniscentrum Psychiatrie en Zwangerschap. In 2008 she published a guideline on female genital cosmetic surgery, approved by the Dutch Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and the Dutch Society of Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery. At the moment, she actively participates in research projects concerning PTSS following childbirth, depression in pregnancy and fear of childbirth. |
