atrioventricular reentry tachycardia
Hahurij, N.D.
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Hahurij, N. D. (2011, June 2). Cardiac development : the posterior heart field and atrioventricular reentry tachycardia. Retrieved from
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Curriculum Vitae
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cURRicULUM ViTAe
Nathan D. Hahurij was born on November 9th 1981 in Nieuw-Roden, The Netherlands and graduated school from the Alfa-college (VWO, Groningen, The Netherlands) in 2001. That same year he continued his education by enrolling to study Medicine at the University of Leiden. As part of his Bachelor study he started a scientific research internship focusing on the role of Shox2 in cardiac development, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. A.C. Gittenberger- de Groot in the department of Anatomy & Embryology of the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). Upon completion of this project he was awarded a Bachelors degree (doctoraal bul) in December 2005. He was accepted as Ph.D. candidate in a partnership between the Departments of Pediatric Cardiology and Anatomy & Embryology (LUMC) in January 2006.
Here he could further pursue his scientific interest in cardiac development under the supervision of Prof. Dr. N.A. Blom and Prof. Dr. A.C. Gittenberger-de Groot. His Ph.D-research focused on the etiology of atrioventricular reentry tachycardias in fetuses and the young as well as the role of the posterior heart field in cardiogenesis. In February 2008 he started his medical internships in order to complete his education as medical doctor. The succeeding two years were filled with both internship training and Ph.D research. He also submitted a research proposal to the Dutch Heart Foundation outlining a two-year project focusing on the role of hemodynamics in the development of congenital heart disease, and was consequently awarded a Dr. E. Dekker grant (No 2009T070). In February 2010, drs Hahurij received his medical degree and became a resident (ANIOS) in the Department of Pediatrics (headed by Prof. Dr.
H.S.A. Heymans) of the Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In August 2010 he returned to the LUMC to complete his Ph.D study and to initiate the “post-doctoral project” granted by the Dutch Heart Foundation, which is carried out in the Department of Pediatric Cardiology (Prof. Dr. N.A. Blom, supervisor) in collaboration with the Anatomy &
Embryology department (Prof. Dr. A.C. Gittenberger-de Groot) of the LUMC. In order to acquire embryonic and fetal echocardiography skills, he was temporarily employed (January – March 2011) as research fellow at the Mouse Imaging Centre of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada under the supervision of Dr. Y.Q. Zhou and Prof. Dr. M.
Henkelman. For the future, he plans to further pursue his interests in cardiac development and congenital heart disease at both clinical and scientific aspects.
