Hendrik Klaas Aldert "Henk" Visser (19 June 1930 – 25 March 2023) was a Dutch pediatrician. He was professor of pediatrics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and the Erasmus MC between 1967 and 1995.

Life and career

Visser was born on 19 June 1930 in Dokkum.[1] He studied medicine at the University of Groningen between 1948 and 1955. He specialized in pediatrics under professor J.H.P. Jonxis. Visser obtained his PhD in 1958. From 1960 to 1961 he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Boston Children's Hospital.[2]

Visser became professor of pediatrics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and the Erasmus MC in 1967.[2] He was head of the department of pediatrics of the Erasmus MC and the Sophia Kinderziekenhuis between 1967 and 1995.[3] During this period he managed to turn the aging hospital to the leading academic pediatric centre in the Netherlands.[4] Visser was dean of the faculty of Medicine from 1986 to 1990.[2][5] He retired in 1995.[6]

From 1971 to 2016 to Visser was involved in the work of the Health Council of the Netherlands, serving as member and heading commissions. He amongst others, served as head of the commission for mandatory polio vaccination and several others regarding nutrition. Within the institution Visser was member of the presidium between 1990 and 2002. He became an honorary member of the institution in 2002.[7][8] Visser was the first chairman of the Dutch Central Committee on Research Involving Human Subjects from 1 April 1999 to 1 June 2003. In this period the Dutch Medical Research Involving Human Subjects Act was introduced.[9] When European legislation undermined the Dutch integrated assessment system Visser threatened to resign and remained determined in advocating that medical-scientific and ethical aspects could not be separated from one another.[10]

Visser was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1980.[11] In 1997 he was awarded the Gorterpenning by the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Kindergeneeskunde.[12]

Visser was married for 55 years. His wife died in 2013. He died in Rotterdam on 25 March 2023, at the age of 92.[13] Upon his death, the Dutch Association for Pediatrics called Visser one of the founders of the current field of pediatrics in the Netherlands.[14]

References

  1. ↑ D. J. van de Kaa; Kaa; Y. de Roo (19 December 2008). De Leden Van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie Van Wetenschappen: Een Demografisch Perspectief: 1808 Tot 2008. Amsterdam University Press. p. 353. ISBN 978-90-6984-552-4.
  2. 1 2 3 "Vijftig jaar geneeskunde herinneringen en beschouwingen van een kinderarts" (in Dutch). Van der Velde Boeken. Archived from the original on 5 July 2020. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
  3. ↑ "Voorintekenactie boek prof. dr. H.K.A. Visser" (in Dutch). Nederlandse Vereniging voor Kindergeneeskunde. 21 September 2012. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
  4. ↑ de Vries, Huib (17 August 2019). "Prof. Henk Visser, kinderarts met wereldfaam". Reformatorisch Dagblad (in Dutch). Retrieved 16 December 2023.
  5. ↑ "Documentaire over prof. dr. H.K.A. Visser (Henk Visser), gemaakt ter gelegenheid van zijn afscheid als decaan van de Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam. Interviews met collega's en familieleden en een registratie van de feestelijkheden" (in Dutch). Stadsarchief Rotterdam. 9 April 2020. Retrieved 3 July 2020.
  6. ↑ Visser, Henk (19 May 1995). "Wat Jantje is, zal Jan worden: het belang van de eerste levensjaren voor het verdere leven" (in Dutch). RePub Publications from Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Archived from the original on 3 July 2020.
  7. ↑ "Erelid Henk Visser op 92-jarige leeftijd overleden" (in Dutch). Gezondheidsraad. 31 March 2023. Archived from the original on 1 June 2023.
  8. ↑ van Elst, Laura (3 April 2023). "Erelid Gezondheidsraad Henk Visser overleden". skipr.nl (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 3 June 2023.
  9. ↑ M.J.H. Kenter en H.K.A. Visser, Bescherming van proefpersonen in klinische research - De toetsing van medisch-wetenschappelijk onderzoek met mensen. 20/10 Uitgevers, Grou 2022
  10. ↑ "In memoriam: Henk Visser" (in Dutch). Centrale Commissie Mensgebonden Onderzoek. 31 March 2023. Archived from the original on 7 June 2023.
  11. ↑ "Henk Visser". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 18 November 2019.
  12. ↑ "Gorterpenning" (in Dutch). Nederlandse Vereniging voor Kindergeneeskunde. Archived from the original on 1 June 2020.
  13. ↑ "Familiebericht Henk K.A. Visser". NRC Handelsblad (in Dutch). 1 April 2023. Archived from the original on 25 June 2023.
  14. ↑ "Aandacht voor overlijden prof. dr. Henk Visser" (in Dutch). Nederlandse Vereniging voor Kindergeneeskunde. 6 April 2023. Archived from the original on 16 December 2023.
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