Gertrude Nieuwenhuijs-Moeke, MD - Anesthesiologist

Gertrude Nieuwenhuijs-Moeke, MD

Gertrude Nieuwenhuijs-Moeke, MD, is a well-versed anesthesiologist who currently serves as consultant anesthesiologist for abdominal, oncological and transplant surgery at the University Medical Center Groningen in Groningen, the Netherlands. According to her profile on the University of Groningen Medical Center’s website, “she performs clinical and translational research with focus on ischemia and reperfusion injury and strategies to reduce injury and improve preservation and repair in kidney transplantation, anesthesia and the immune system and perioperative organ and patient protective strategies.” As an anesthesiologist, she has dedicated training and unique experience in providing relief of pain and total care of the surgical patient before, during and after surgery. Dr. Nieuwenhuijs-Moeke has an impressive professional journey that spans ten years. For more information, please visit https://www.umcg.nl/EN/Research/InstitutesProgrammes/vapor-2/teams/Paginas/Gertrude-Nieuwenhuijs-Moeke.aspx.

Gertrude Nieuwenhuijs-Moeke, MD, attended the University of Ghent in Ghent, Belgium, and received her medical degree in 2003. Furthermore, he conducted her anesthesiology residency at the Maria Middelares Medical Center Gentbrugge in Gentbrugge, Belgium, and at the University Medical Center Groningen in Groningen, The Netherlands. She is presently finishing her PhD thesis at the University of Groningen on per-operative renal protective strategies in kidney transplantation. Dr. Nieuwenhuijs-Moeke is a member of the European Society for Organ Transplantation and the American Society of Anesthesiologists. She feels that her success is attributable primarily to her commitment and dedication. Dr. Nieuwenhuijs-Moeke was honored with the Astellas European Foundation Transplantation Grant (2014) and the ESA Baxter Grant for improvement of preoperative outcome (2017). For more information about Dr. Gertrude Nieuwenhuijs-Moeke, please visit https://www.findatopdoc.com/doctor/8135169-Gertrude-Nieuwenhuijs-Moeke-Anesthesiologist-Groningen-9728XR.

Dr. Gertrude Nieuwenhuijs-Moeke is a member of the scientific committee of the International Meeting of Ischemia and Reperfusion Injury in Transplantation (IMIRT). She also sits on the local scientific committee of kidney transplantation at the University Medical Center Groningen. Moreover, she remains involved in several research projects. According to the UMCG’s website, “she designed, organised and executed the VAPOR-1 Trial, a single centre RCT (Vapor-1 trial, BJA 2017), and organised the participation of Erasmus Medical Centre Rotterdam and University Medical Centre Groningen in the CONTEXT trial. A Danish multicentre RCT looking at the effect of remote ischemic conditioning on outcome in renal transplantation using kidneys from deceased donors (Context trial, AJT 2016).” Currently, she is the project leader and PI of the VAPOR-2 Trial (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02727296), an international multicenter study on the effect of a sevoflurane based anesthesia versus a propofol based anesthesia on the incidence of DGF in recipients of kidneys of donation after circulatory death (DCD) and donation after brain death (DBD) donors. For more information about Dr. Gertrude Nieuwenhuijs-Moeke, please visit https://www.linkedin.com/in/gertrude-nieuwenhuijs-moeke-44887120/?originalSubdomain=nl.