
Henk van der Poel MD, PhD
Head, Department of Urology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, NetherlandsHenk van der Poel, MD, PhD, is head of the department of Urology at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam with focus on prostate cancer management. He is editor-in-chief of the Netherlands Journal of Urology and has (co)authored more than 350 peer-reviewed publications in the field of urology and conducted several prospective clinical trials on improvements of surgical techniques in prostate cancer management. He was a board member of the Dutch Association of Urology for 12 years, and since 2014, he has been a member of the EAU Prostate Cancer Guidelines Panel. He actively participates as a mentor in surgical and theoretical training in urology on national and international levels as a board member of the European School of Urology.