Awards

2017                   European Health Award 2017 t.b.v. Gen-Equip project, “Equipping European Primary Care Health Professionals to Deal with Genetics. “

2013                   PhD Researcher  “Developing training in genetics/genomics for primary care health workers”, promotors Prof Dr M Cornel and GJ Dinant, co promotors Prof Dr C van der Vleuten and Dr L Henneman.

                            PhD date 20 december 2013, Cum Laude

2010                   Putting plans into practice prize CSG (Center for Society and Genomics):

                            Title project:

                            Developing successfully implemented guidelines for cardiovascular risk management in genetics/genomics for general practitioners. E.J.F. Houwink, Prof. Dr. M.C. Cornel, i.s.m. Prof. Dr. Irene van Langen

1999                   Student Science Award; Maastricht University, Faculty of Medicine Science rotation with Prof. Dr. C. Warner aan de Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA. “Aspects of preimplantation embryology and sex-related growth rate differences in mouse preimplantation embryos in the Ped fast and Ped slow strain in vivo.”

Expertise

Genetics and pharmacogenetics in primary care practice

Genetics and pharmacogenetics education

Primary care

Family medicine

Personalized medicine

Biography

Isa Houwink was born on December the 13th 1973 in Haarlem, the Netherlands. After she received secondary education at the Barlaeus Gymnasium in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, she successfully passed the Propadeutics in Health Sciences. After obtaining her medical degree in 2003, she started working as a resident at the departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology both in Amsterdam and in Heerlen. She then decided to become a General Practitioner to be able to be in a more personal relationship with her patients and started her residency in Maastricht in 2005. In 2006 she published an accredited written Accredidact CPD module on pre- and postnatal screening together with prof. Martina Cornel. In 2010, together with prof. Martina Cornel, she also published a book on “Genetics in general practice” published by Elsevier in the series of Praktikum Huisartsgeneeskunde. From 2008 until 2013 she participated in a PhD project at the section Community Genetics, Department of Clinical genetics (VU University Medical Center Amsterdam) under the supervision of prof. Martina Cornel and prof. Geert Jan Dinant (Department of Family Medicine in Maastricht). Her project, funded by CSG Centre for Society and the Life Sciences /Centre for Medical Systems Biology, aimed to reflect on current genomics developments with primary care workers, and to help them identify their learning priorities. On the 20th of December 2013 she defended her thesis "Training in genetics and genomics" Cum Laude.
Isa Houwink currently works both as an assistant professor (Genetics in primary care) at the Leiden University Medical Center and is a GP in Maastricht.
In her free time she loves to row (US National Team Rowing Alumni), yoga, run, bike, swim (currently training with the Triathlon Club Maastricht, coached bij Sarissa de Vries) and ski with her husband Bas and is a mother to their children Marieke and Joppe

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