Dr. E. Dekker has been appointed professor of Gastrointestinal Oncology, specializing in screening and diagnosing colorectal carcinoma, at the University of Amsterdam’s Faculty of Medicine (AMC-UvA).
Evelien Dekker obtained her Ph.D. at the UvA and did her medical training to qualify as a junior doctor, internist, and subsequently a gastroenterologist at the Amsterdam Medical Center (AMC) and OLVG hospital. Dekker has worked as a gastroenterologist since 2005, a position she has combined with that of primary investigator in the Gastroenterology department of the AMC since 2009. Her clinical duties primarily engage her in the field of gastroenterology-oncology and as head of the outpatient clinic for hereditary intestinal tumors. Furthermore, she is a member of the board of Procolo, an innovative center of expertise for colonoscopy.
Colon cancer is a key focus of Dekker’s research, and her research group studies the screening methods for intestinal cancer, the quality and advanced technical developments within colonoscopy, the treatment of intestinal polyps and the early stages of intestinal cancer, and hereditary intestinal cancer and polyposis syndromes. Dekker is a member of several working groups of the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), which is tasked with implementing the national population study of intestinal cancer. Dekker is also the chair of the Dutch Colonoscopy Surveillance Guideline Committee, a member of the same guideline committee at the European level, and a member of the Dutch Hereditary Intestinal Cancer Guideline Committee.