R.P. (Robin) Peeters, MD

Professor R.P. Peeters is an internist-endocrinologist at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He is head of the Erasmus MC Academic Center for Thyroid Diseases, which is a tertiary referral center for patients with complex thyroid disorders. He is a member of the board of the Dutch Internist Society and of the European Society for Endocrinology. He has been a member of different international guideline committees (i.e. the guidelines on treatment of subclinical hypothyroidism, hypothyroidism and thyroid disorders during pregnancy).

• Thyroid
• Thyroid Hormone Action
• Thyroid and Pregnancy
• Thyroid Cancer
• Thyroid and Aging
• Graves' Orbitopathy

Professor Peeters received his medical degree at Erasmus University in 2000 (Cum Laude). He then combined his clinical training as an internist with a PhD project under the supervision of professor T.J. Visser. The PhD project focused on the metabolism of thyroid hormone in health and disease and was completed in 2005 (Cum Laude). In 2009 he finished his clinical training as an internist-endocrinologist and then did a research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health in the United States to study the effects of thyroid hormone on brain development. He returned to Erasmus MC in the end of 2010, where he has been working as an internist-endocrinologist since then. Currently he is the head of the Erasmus MC Academic Center for Thyroid Diseases, which is a tertiary referral center for patients with complex thyroid disorders.

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Professor Peeters is a board member of the Dutch Internist Society (chair of the science committee) and of the European Society for Endocrinology (chair of the clinical committee). He is also a former board member of the European Thyroid Association (ETA). He received various international awards for his research, including the ETA Harrington-de Visscher Prize in 2013, the Van Meter Award from the American Thyroid Association in 2016, and the Pitt Rivers Award and Award Lecture from the British Thyroid Association in 2018.
Professor Peeters has published more than 240 international scientific articles and is a member of the editorial board of various endocrine journals.