Piet Kager

Department of Infectious Diseases, Academisch Medisch Centrum, Netherlands

Piet Kager

Academic positions:
- Professor of Tropical Medicine, Academic Medical Center / Universiteit van Amsterdam
- Head of the unit of Tropical Medicine of the Department of Infectious Diseases, Tropical Medicine and AIDS
- Senior lecturer Tropical Medicine, Universiteit van Amsterdam,

Any industry positions (last five years):
"Our department has received $1000 to $1500 per year over the past few years from Glaxo-SmithKline to support malaria studies by elective students in East Africa.
Personally I have no conflict of interest."

Research interests:
- Epidemiology, clinical aspects, treatment and control of tropical infectious diseases, particularly malaria and leishmaniasis.
- Health care and quality of care
- Travel medicine

Any other information:

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Section Head: Infectious Diseases > Tropical & Travel-Associated Diseases (since 16 November 2005)

Piet Kager is a Section Head for Tropical & Travel-Associated Diseases, part of the INFECTIOUS DISEASES Faculty. The role of a Section Head is to work with their Co-Section Head(s) to divide the Section (sub-specialty area) into its component areas of research, nominate leaders in those areas as Faculty Members, and offer ongoing oversight of the content within their Section. They are not asked to evaluate articles, although we do, of course, welcome them.

Links

http://www.tropencentrum.nl