Dirkjan van Schaardenburg, MD, PhD
Dirkjan van Schaardenburg is Emeritus Professor of Rheumatology at Amsterdam University Medical Center (UMC), with expertise in the early phase of rheumatoid arthritis and a passion for lifestyle medicine.
For thirty years, he worked as a rheumatologist at Reade, center for rheumatology and rehabilitation in Amsterdam, and at Amsterdam UMC. There, as senior investigator, he initiated and led the Plants for Joints study.
As co-founder of Plants for Health, he combines decades of clinical experience with research on risk factors and lifestyle interventions for rheumatic diseases.
Education
| 1993 | PhD, Medicine Leiden University |
| 1992 | Specialty degree Rheumatology |
| 1989 | Specialty degree Internal Medicine |
| 1982 | Master’s degree, Medicine University of Groningen |