4th European 22q11 Conference – Berlin 2021

Professor of Transitional Psychiatry and consultant Psychiatrist at Maastricht University Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology.

PhD on DS22q11 in 2004 at the University of Amsterdam.

Dutch adult DS22q11 clinic at Maastricht University Medical Center

Head of the Lab for Behaviour and Neurodevelopment

More than 25 years of experience in research of neurodevelopmental disorders such as intellectual disability (ID), developmental delay (DD) and autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in children, adolescents and adults with microdeletions and duplications (22q11.2 deletions and duplications, 16p deletions and duplications, 22q13 deletions, etc.)

Head of the Laboratory of Cytogenetics

Research focus is the basic mechanisms underlying genomic disease, with particular interest in role of copy number variation in common diseases such as intellectual disability or autism

Research focused on the phenotypic variability of patients with 22q11 Deletion Syndrome.

Research focus on adults with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome and their families.

Member of the scientific advisory committee of the national 22q11.2 family network (Stichting Steun 22Q11)

Advisor for the international 22q11.2 Society.

Former founder and Director of Developmental Neuropsychology at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)

Research on the relationship of 22q11.2 deletions on brain development and educational achievement.

Since 1994 working with children and families affected by 22q11.2 deletions and duplications

Research focus turned to the interests of those who effected with 22q11 in continued academic pursuits, career planning, mental health, and increasing independent living skills.

Post doctoral student at the Developmental Imaging lab of the University of Geneva

Clinician for children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders

Research focus on understanding the interactions between environmental factors and brain maturation in neurodevelopmental disorders

Developing new methodologies to represent the interactions between brain maturation and the different clinical manifestations of psychiatric disorders with the aim of developing new personalized treatments.

University professor and chief physician, Department of Phoniatrics and Pediatric Audiology, University Hospital Giessen-Marburg - Marburg location

Hessian state doctor for people with hearing and speech impairments Scientific advisory board member "We are 22q e.V.".
Pediatric Audiology in the 22q11 Language Competence Center

Head of the Center for Cleft-Lip-Palate and Rare Oro-Cranio-Facial Malformations at the University Hospital Frankfurt / Goethe University Frankfurt
Scientific advisory board member "We are 22q e.V."
Head of the 22q11 Language Competence Center

Head of Pediatric Orthopedics and Medical Director at the Altona Children's Hospital (Hamburg-Altona)
Scientific advisory board member "We are 22q e.V."
Head of the 22q11 Orthopedic Competence Center

Director of the Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University Hospital of Würzburg
Deputy Chairman "We are 22q e.V."
Head of the 22q11 Competence Center Mental Health.

President 22q11 Europe

Chairman Wir sind 22q e.V., Germany

Honorary Chairman Wir sind 22q e.V., Germany

Resident speech therapist

Coach and author of 'Being Different'; a book about growing up with 22q.

Psychologist, postdoc researcher, specialist in infant mental health DAIMH & mindfulness trainer VMBN cat.-no. 1 

PhD on research into the cognitive development of children with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome 

Advice, training and / or coaching for children, adolescents and adults with 22q11 syndrome           

Physician at the Clinic and Polyclinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy at the University Hospital Würzburg

Special outpatient clinic at the Centre for Deletion Syndrome 22q11.2

Research on cell models of genetic diseases with a focus on DS22q11.2