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Prof.dr. Brenda Penninx (1970) is professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology and has been involved in several Dutch and international longitudinal cohort studies for the last 15 years. Central themes in her research are risk factors and consequences of depression and anxiety disorders and the interaction of these disorders with physical health. She has published almost 300 international articles on these subjects.
Brenda Penninx studied Health Sciences at the Catholic University of Nijmegen. She obtained her PhD in Epidemiology at the VU University in 1996. Afterwards she stayed in the USA for several years as Visiting Fellow at the American National Institute on aging in Bethesda, MD, and as Assistant/Associate Professor at Wake Forest University in North Carolina.
In 2004 she returned to the VU University Medical Center in the Netherlands to become the principal investigator of the NESDA study; the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety. Brenda Penninx works for the department of Psychiatry and the EMGO institute of the VU University Medical Center and is also affiliated to the departments of Psychiatry of the Leiden University Medical Center and the University Medical Center Groningen. For more information about the Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety (NESDA), visit www.nesda.nl.
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