Michiel Van Wijk

Michiel P. van Wijk MD, PhD, pediatric gastroenterologist, is a staff member of the Emma Children's Hospital / Amsterdam UMC in the Netherlands. He cares for patients with a broad range of GI-disorders, with a clinical focus on motility disorders and esophageal diseases and is involved in optimising care for patients with rare esophageal diseases such as esophageal atresia, eosinophilic esophagitis and achalasia. After finishing his PhD thesis, entitled: "Pediatric gastroesophageal reflux and upper gastrointestinal tract motility : the use of multichannel intraluminal impedance and high resolution manometry" in 2010, he kept a special scientific interest in motility testing in children, especially in patients with eosinophilic esophagitis, gastro-esophageal reflux disease, esophageal atresia and achalasia. He is a board member of the ESPGHAN working group on pediatric motility and is a visiting professor at the KU Leuven, where he is involved in the master program for deglutology.