VAN DEN AKKER, CHRIS

Chris van den Akker is a consultant neonatologist, working in the NICU of the Amsterdam UMC – Emma Children’s Hospital. Besides clinical duties, he has been involved in neonatal research since 2005 when starting his PhD on fetal and neonatal protein metabolism under supervision of Prof. J.B. van Goudoever. Later he extended his research to other aspects of neonatal nutrition, such as lipid metabolism, human milk, and probiotics. He is an active co-author of several international nutritional guidelines by ESPGHAN, i.e. on parenteral nutrition (2018), probiotics (2020), and enteral nutrition (2021, in preparation).