Monique Breteler

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Monique Maria Bernadette Breteler (born January 26, 1961 in Nijmegen ) is a Dutch neuroepidemiologist. She is director of population-based health research at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), professor at the University of Bonn and professor at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts, one of many academic units at Harvard University .

Career

Monique Breteler studied medicine and epidemiology at Radboud University Nijmegen . In 1993 she did her PhD in these subjects at the University of Rotterdam . There she took over the management of the neuroepidemiology department in 1995. Since 2002 she has been an associate professor at the School of Public Health at Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts. In addition, since 2011 she has been director of population-based health research at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE). In 2019 Monique Breteler was accepted as a member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in the Neuroscience Section .

research

Monique Breteler's research interests lie in the etiology and preclinical development of neurodegenerative and cerebrovascular diseases . She has been accompanying the large epidemiological and population-based Rotterdam study for more than 20 years . She is also head of the Rhineland Study, which began in 2016 at the DZNE in Bonn.

Awards

  • 2012 Bengt Winblad Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Alzheimer's Society
  • 2012 Speech at the Falling Walls Conference in Berlin
  • 2015 External member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Monique Maria Bernadette Breteler, Cognitive Decline in the Elderly; Epidemiologic studies on cognitive function and dementia , Dissertation, Erasmus University Rotterdam, June 1993
  2. ^ Profile of Monique Breteler at the University of Rotterdam . Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 21, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.erasmusmc.nl
  3. ↑ On the trail of the lifestyle of the Rhinelander in General-Anzeiger (Bonn) , accessed on April 21, 2016
  4. ^ Alzheimer Society: List of all Lifetime Achievement Award winners , accessed April 20, 2016
  5. ↑ Monique Breteler at the Falling Walls Conference , accessed April 20, 2016
  6. ↑ Monique Breteler: Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences , January 24, 2016 , accessed April 20, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Breteler, Monique
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Breteler, Monique Maria Bernadette (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch neuroepidemiologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Nijmegen