Daan Kromhout, PhD, is Professor of Public Health Research at the University of Wageningen and Vice President of the Netherlands Health Council. In 1974 he graduated in Human Nutrition at the University of Wageningen and obtained his PhD in 1978. He was assistant and associate professor at the Institute of Social Medicine at the University of Leiden from 1977 to 1988. From 1988 to 2005 he held various positions at the National Institute of Public and Environmental Health (RIVM) in the city of Bilthoven. In 2009 he was appointed professor at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences for the period 2010-2014. Dr Daan Kromhout’s research focuses primarily on diet, lifestyle and cardiovascular disease and has made key contributions to nutritional epidemiology and preventive cardiology in highly cited publications.
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