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Harm van Marwijk (52) is associate professor of general practice at the Department of General Practice and the EMGO+-Institute for Health and Care Research of VU University medical centre (VUmc). He is also a general practitioner since 1988, and teaches at VUmc department of vocational training. His strength lies in the combination of clinical work, research and teaching.
Research topics
He aims to understand primary (mental) health care, to help translate such understanding to practice and test it, and to improve access. He starts from a dialogue-centered, motivational and integrated perspective. See projects and publications.
Short biography
He graduated in medicine at Leiden University in 1985. Before he started vocational training for general practice in 1987, he did residency training in geriatric psychiatry in The Hague in 1986, where he also started doing clinical research on late-life depression. To pursue his academic interest as a GP he participated in the Netherlands programme for Leadership in General Practice. He obtained a grant in 1990 from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for a PhD project on late life depression as seen in general practice. After an EU fellowship at the Department of Primary Care in Southampton, UK, in 1996, he moved to VUmc in Amsterdam, where he has worked since.
He has co-authored more than 175 international and national research papers, 120 international publications are indexed in PubMed (click here for a list of publications in google scholar). He has obtained several million euro's in research support, and is involved in many guideline committees on mental health in the Netherlands. He collaborates closely with the Department of Psychiatry of VUmc, the Department of Clinical Psychology of VU University, the Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction (Trimbos Instituut) and the Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research (NIVEL). He is a board member of two large-scale studies, the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (www.nesda.nl), an eight-year study on depression and anxiety in various health care settings, and the Nederlandse Studie naar Depressie bij Ouderen (www.nesdo.nl). He has advised ten PhD students, and is advising a further twelve.