Hazes, Mieke

Affiliation: 

Erasmus MC

Country: 

The Netherlands

Biography

Dr Hazes did her medical training at the Leiden University Medical School followed by her specialist training in internal medicine and rheumatology at the Leiden University Medical Center. Her scientific training was in (clinical) epidemiology in Leiden, Rotterdam and the epidemiology summer course in Boston. She completed her PhD thesis on oral contraceptives and RA in januari 1990. After being a visiting epidemiologist at the Arthritis Research Council- Epidemiology Unit of professor Alan Silman in Manchester, UK, she was successively appointed as assistant and associate professor at the department of rheumatology of the Leiden University Medical Center, first as the head of the specialist rheumatology clinic in Noordwijk, later as the head of the outpatient department and deputy head of the department of rheumatololgy of the Leiden University Medical Center. In 2000 she was appointed as professor of rheumatology and head of a newly to start department of rheumatology of the Erasmus university Medical Center in Rotterdam.
Her research interests are clinical epidemiology of the rheumatic diseases in particular (early) diagnosis and prognosis of RA, comprehensive treatment and quality of life research in RA, pregnancy in RA.
Since 2000 she is a member of the international steering committee of the Bone and Joint Decade in which she is involved in the task force on monitoring musculoskeletal conditions. She is an advisor in many national an international committees concerning research and management of the rheumatic diseases in particular (early) rheumatoid arthritis. She served as a member of the Council of Medical Sciences of the Dutch Academy of Sciences from 2002 to 2011. She is a member of the Dutch Medicine Evaluation Board and member of the Dutch National Health Council sitting on several subcommittees.
Under her supervision 15 theses were completed and 13 are in progress.
More than 180 peer reviewed articles and 40 book chapters have been published.