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Curriculum vitae
Name: Hans G. Lemij
Date of birth: 14th July 1960
Place of birth: Point Fortin (Trinidad and Tobago)
Nationality: Dutch
Marital status: Married, 2 children (daughter, born 1994, son, born 1996)
Academic titles: MD, PhD
Occupation: Ophthalmologist
Address (W): The Rotterdam Eye Hospital
Schiedamsevest 180
3011 BH Rotterdam
The Netherlands
Phone: +31-10-4017777
E-mail: [email protected]
Address (H): Burgemeester de Villeneuvesingel 7
3055 AL Rotterdam
The Netherlands
Phone: +31-10-4614465
E-mail: [email protected]
Pre-academic training:
Lemij went to various primary schools in several countries, since his parents worked with an international oil company. His secondary school was the Rijnlands Lyceum in Wassenaar, The Netherlands.
Academic and medical training:
1978 - 1985 Medical school at the State University of Leiden, The Netherlands. Lemij graduated cum laude.
1985 - 1987 Military service in the Royal Dutch Navy, largely as a resident in Psychiatry at the Marine Hospitaal (Navy Hospital), Overveen, The Netherlands.
1987 - 1989 PhD-student at the Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He worked at the Department of Physiology I, supervised by Prof. H. Collewijn. Lemij's research was into the conjugacy of saccadic eye movements. More specifically, Lemij examined adaptation of the human saccadic oculomotor system to anisometropic spectacles requiring nonconjugate saccades. Lemij graduated cum laude. His thesis was awarded with the Hamburger prize, as well as the Binkhorst prize.
1989 - 1993 Residency in ophthalmology at the Rotterdam Eye Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The head of the residency programme was G.S. Baarsma, MD. During the residency, Lemij became increasingly interested in glaucoma.
1993 Lemij spent 3 months visiting various glaucoma specialists in the United Kingdom, the United States of America and The Netherlands.
1993 - date Lemij joined the faculty of The Rotterdam Eye Hospital as a glaucoma specialist and as an anterior segment surgeon. He was the Scientific Director of the Rotterdam Eye Hospital till 2009. He served on the Rotterdam Eye Hospital’s Science Committee. This committee was renamed into the Institutional Review Board after a merger with the hospital’s Medical Ethics Committee in January 2004. Lemij’s own research activities initially focussed on the oculomotor system, but more recently on glaucoma. In glaucoma, most early research was into scanning laser polarimetry, a technique that determines in vivo the thickness of the retinal nerve fiber layer, a thin tissue that is affected in glaucoma. Lately, several other imaging technologies used in glaucoma have been added to his research activities. He has also developed an interest in shared glaucoma care, i.e., delegating clinical tasks to other eye care professionals, optometrists and technicians, both within and outside the hospital setting. In 2004, he extended his research activities to genetic epidemiology of glaucoma. In addition, Lemij regularly gives courses in glaucoma and perimetry to ophthalmologists, residents and ophthalmic technicians throughout The Netherlands and abroad. The clinical use of structural imaging (stereoscopic fundus photography, scanning laser polarimetry and optical coherence tomography) are other topics of his regular courses. He established and chaired the Dutch Humphrey Perimeter Users Society; this society changed its name in 2008 to the Stichting Anatomy and Function of the Eye (SAFE), in order to also pay attention to imaging technologies in the management of glaucoma. Lemij is the president of SAFE. He also chairs the Dutch Glaucoma Group (a group of glaucoma specialists and ophthalmologists with a special interest in glaucoma in the Netherlands). He established the Imaging Morphometry Association for Glaucoma in Europe (IMAGE) in 2002. He helped establish the Glaucoma Genetic Epidemiology Network in Europe (GlaucoGENE) in 2004. From 2006 till 2010, he was a visiting Professor at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.
1998 – 2004 Lemij chaired the Medical Ethics Committee of The Rotterdam Eye Hospital. As mentioned earlier, this committee changed into the Institutional Review Board in January 2004.
2009 Lemij became vice-chair and secretary of the medical faculty of the Rotterdam Eye Hospital. He also joined the advisory board of Health Base, the publisher of “Commentaren Medicatiebewaking”, a reference manual for Dutch pharmacists.
2010 Lemij became a member of the Glaucoma Experts Committee of the European Institute of Vision (EVI).
2011 Lemij joined the Advisory Board of the review journal Framingham on ophthalmology.
2011 Lemij joined the European Advisory Board of Laboratoires Théa.
2013 through 2019 Lemij was elected as chair of the medical faculty of the Rotterdam Eye Hospital. The medical faculty of the Rotterdam Eye Hospital consists of 36 ophthalmologists, working in 4 locations: the Rotterdam Eye Hospital, as well as in 3 other franchise locations, within general hospitals in the Rotterdam area: the Sint Franciscus Gasthuis, the Havenziekenhuis and the IJsselland Ziekenhuis. The number of collaborating hospitals is expected to grow.
2015 through 2019 Lemij served as a Medical Director of the Rotterdam Eye Hospital. In addition, he continued seeing and operating on glaucoma and cataract patients.
1988 Cambridge Proficiency Certificate in English (level C2 of the Council of Europe's Common European Framework of Reference for Languages)
1998 – 1999 Curriculum for Living (Landmark Education)
1999 Communication courses CAP/CPP (Landmark Education)
2000 Effective Negotiating (Karrass Europe Limited)
2005-2007 French conversation lessons (Alliance Française)
2007- 2010 Italian conversation lessons (various teachers)
2009 Medical management (Management voor medici; Academie voor medisch specialisten)
2010 Major Incident Medical Management and Support (MIMMS; Advanced Life Support Group NL)
2010 - date French conversation lessons (Katiuscia Siddi, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy; Myngle.com/EduFire.com/Skype)
2010 - date Italian conversation lessons (Katiuscia Siddi, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy; Myngle.com/EduFire.com/Skype)
2011 One price fits all? (Medical finance; Medilex, Zeist, The Netherlands)
2012 Preventief en curatief omgaan met disfunctioneren (Medilex, Utrecht, The Netherlands)
2012 - 2013 Norwegian conversation lessons (Silje Linn Moss, Bergen, Norway, Skapago)
2013 Brazilian Portuguese conversation lessons (Mau Buchler, Sao Paolo, Brazil)
2013 Giving feedback to medical residents (KNMG, The Netherlands)
2013 - 2014 Stafvoorzittersgroep bij Damhuis, Elshout en Verschuren. Intervisie voor voorzitters van medische staven
2014 Erasmus Medical Centre Leadership Programme
2014 Course in Situational Leadership
2015 -2016 Intervisiegroep voor cobestuurders bij Damhuis, Elshout en Verschuren
List of publications (peer-reviewed, full papers only)
Lemij HG, Collewijn H. Differences in accuracy of human saccades between stationary and jumping targets. Vision Research. 1989; 29: 1737-1748.
Lemij HG. Asymmetrical adaptation of human saccades to anisometropic spectacles. 1990: Doctoral thesis, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Lemij HG, Collewijn H. Long-term nonconjugate adaptation of human saccades to anisometropic spectacles. Vision Research. 1991; 31: 1939-1954.
Lemij HG, Collewijn H. Short-term nonconjugate adaptation of human saccades to anisometropic spectacles. Vision Research. 1991; 31: 1955-1966.
Lemij HG, Collewijn H. Nonconjugate adaptation of human saccades to anisometropic spectacles: meridian-specificity. Vision Research. 1992; 32: 453-464.
Van den Bosch WA, Lemij HG. Blepharoptosis by prolonged hard contact lens wear. Ophthalmology. 1992; 99: 1759-1765.
Van Nouhuys HM, Van den Bosch WA, Lemij HG, Mooy CM. Floppy eyelid syndrome associated with Demodex Brevis. Orbit. 1994; 13: 125-129.
Van den Bosch WA, Lemij HG. The lax eyelid syndrome. British Journal of Ophthalmology. 1994; 78: 666-670.
Maxwell GF, Lemij HG, Collewijn H. Conjugacy of saccades in deep amblyopia. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 1995; 36: 2514-2522.
Wouters RJ, Van den Bosch WA, Stijnen T, Bubberman AC, Collewijn H, Lemij HG. Conjugacy of eyelid movements in vertical eye saccades. Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science. 1995; 36: 2686-2694.
Tjon-Fo-Sang MJ, De Vries J, Lemij HG. Measurement by Nerve Fiber Analyzer of retinal nerve fiber layer thickness in normal subjects and patients with ocular hypertension. American Journal of Ophthalmology. 1996; 122: 220-227.
Tjon-Fo-Sang MJ, Lemij HG. The sensitivity and specificity of nerve fiber layer measurements with scanning laser polarimetry. American Journal of Ophthalmology. 1997; 123: 62-69.
Tjon-Fo-Sang MJ, De Vries J, Van Strik R, Lemij HG. Improved reproducibility of measurements with the Nerve Fiber Analyzer. Journal of Glaucoma. 1997; 6: 203-211.
Tjon-Fo-Sang MJ, Lemij HG. Retinal nerve fiber layer measurements in normal black subjects as determined with scanning laser polarimetry. Ophthalmology. 1998; 105: 78-81.
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