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Dr. Stephen Vreden was awarded his M.D. degree in 1982 from the Erasmus University Rotterdam’s Medical Faculty in The Netherlands…
Dr. Marja van Eer, was awarded her M.D. degree in 1984 from the Medical Faculty of the University of Leiden. In 1992 she became a specialist in Internal Medicine…
Dr. Els Dams is a specialist in Suriname renowned for her paramount work on cancer treatment…
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Dr. Stephen Vreden was awarded his M.D. degree in 1982 from the Erasmus University Rotterdam’s Medical Faculty in The Netherlands. He specialized in Internal medicine in 1987 and completed his PhD thesis in 1994 on malaria immunology at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. Specialist Infectious Diseases 1995 (Leiden University). From 1995 through 2007 he worked at the Diakonessenhuis Paramaribo; then, continued his practice at the Academic Hospital Paramaribo in 2007. From 2004 to 2019, he was appointed as the Chairman of the National Ethics Review Board for Scientific Research in Humans (CMWO) by the Ministry of Health in Suriname. Dr. Vreden continued his service and became a Board member of the Scientific Research Centre at the Academic Hospital in Paramaribo, as well as a member of the Committee for Promotions and Honorary Doctorates (CPE) of the Anton de Kom University Suriname in 2016. As a true intellectual, he is senior lecturer in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the Medical Faculty of the Anton de Kom University Suriname (since 2017).
Dr. Marja van Eer, was awarded her M.D. degree in 1984 from the Medical Faculty of the University of Leiden. In 1992 she became a specialist in Internal Medicine at the Radboud University Medical Center (Radboudumc), Nijmegen, and in 1993 an HIV specialist of the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). From 1994 till now she has been working in the Diakonessenhuis (Hospital) Paramaribo, Suriname, as a specialist in Internal Medicine and HIV. As a multi- faceted doctor, she is also the Principal investigator of the Suriname Healthy Study and author of the Snake Bite Protocol Suriname and member of the International HIstoplasmosis Advocacy group (iHAG).
Dr. Els Dams is a specialist in Suriname renowned for her paramount work on cancer treatment. She graduated with her Bsc in Biology in 1980, followed by her M.D. degree in 1988 from the Medical Faculty of the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She specialized in Internal Medicine in 1995 and completed her PhD thesis on the Scintigraphic Detection of Infection and Inflammation with Radiolabeled Liposomes in 1999 (Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands). Since 1999, Dr. Dams has been working at the Diakonesse Hospital Paramaribo as specialist Internal medicine and Medical Oncology. From 2004-2009, she was member of the Steering Committee on the National Cancer Program. From 2011 onwards, she has been a member of the National Multidisciplinary Cancer Team. In 2014, she embarked on a new academic endeavor and completed her Master of Science in Public Health at the Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans. She wrote her thesis on the Impact of the Introduction of Radiotherapy in Suriname on the Treatment of Cervical Cancer. Dr. Dams was appointed Chair of the Cancer Control Working Group by the Ministry of Health in 2014, responsible for the development of a National Cancer Control Plan for Suriname, which was published in 2019. In 2015, she worked as a consultant for PAHO, and published a report on the development of a National Cancer Control Plan in Guyana. From 2016 onwards, she is Chair of the National Committee on Essential Medicines. Since 2018, she is Oncology Consultant for the Ministry of Health Suriname.
