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Pediatric Endocrinologist
Wilhelmina Children's Hospital
Utrecht, Netherlands
Professor HM van Santen is pediatric endocrinologist, clinical scientist, at the Wilhelmina Children’s Hospital and at the Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology and full professor at the University Utrecht, The Netherlands. She is highly specialized in the endocrine consequences of childhood cancer treatment, in pediatric thyroid cancer and in childhood craniopharyngioma, including acquired hypothalamic dysfunction.
After her training in Amsterdam, she moved her career to Utrecht, the Netherlands to support the Máxima initiative and to coordinate the endocrine care for children with cancer in the Netherlands from within the Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology. She is clinical scientist in the research program of Child Health, WKZ, UMCU and within the Máxima and collaborates with many international colleagues.
Her research program focusses on the endocrine effects of childhood cancer treatment, with special interest for the hypothalamus, the pituitary gland, and the thyroid, aiming to preserve an intact endocrine system in children with cancer enabling normal growth and development of the child during and after childhood cancer treatment.
Prof van Santen has co-authored more than 200 papers on the endocrine effects of cancer treatment in childhood, pediatric thyroid cancer, craniopharyngioma and hypothalamic dysfunction. She currently supervises 15 phD students and plural medical students.
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Sunday, June 14, 2026
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM CT