Pieter van den Hombergh
Date of Birth: 15 August 1950
Address: Kolhornseweg 67 1213 RS Hilversum
Tel. : +31625097384
E-mail: p.hombergh@gmail.com
Websites: www.whig.nl / www.pietervandenhombergh.nl
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I have been a General Practitioner (GP) all my professional life.
In 2002 I became a full time policy advisor of the Dutch Association of General Practitioners (LHV) till 2012.
In 2012 I accepted a 40% position in The University of Amsterdam as Teacher of GP-trainers.
All along I was senior research assistant of IQhealthcare in Nijmegen, an institute of quality of care research. In 2015 I retired from both positions.
I am advisor for the EFPC-board (European Forum of Primary Care) and supervisory board member of Medical Committee Netherlands Vietnam (MCNV) and freelance consultant..
After my Medical training I worked as a tropical doctor in a District Hospital in Kenya with a catchment population of 150.000 people.
There I experienced the public health implications of such a population being the only referral hospital available in the area.
Ever since I was fascinated by the epidemiology of General Practice and its implications for the profession.
Besides being a GP, I was involved in other activities related to my profession: CME, Research and Teaching.
I was an international consultant for Primary Health care all along (Rumania, Africa, Palestine)
Quality of care research had my interest; in particular the development of evidence-based guidelines and minimum standards for family practice.
As a regular teacher in post-graduate courses I trained GPs in the management of general practice, in communication, time management, negotiation with the patients, and in general disease management. In 1998 I defended my thesis on “practice visits, the development of a tool to assess & improve management in general practice”. It won the CARE-price for the best thesis in the field of FM that year.
As a policy advisor for the Dutch Association of FM I was responsible for the fields: Quality of care & patient safety, FM-Training, CME and Quality Assurance, positioning FM, Collaboration with other care providers, Prevention, Care for the elderly, Occupational Health, etc.
For 12 years (1999 - 2011) I chaired the WHIG (Working group for FM and IH). The WHIG supports the development of postgraduate FM-training possibilities in countries with no FM-training. I also chaired the committee supporting the FM-training in Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya and the undergraduate training in Ruanda and Malawi.
From 2009 till 2012 I was chair of the Dutch Association for Tropical Medicine & International health (NVTG) and after that continued to chair the reregistration committee for Global Doctors.
From 2011 -2015 I worked as a Train the Trainer in FM at the University of Amsterdam AMC.
After retiring I continued to examine trainees in FM and I continued teaching and supervision as an independent consultant, recently at the Aga Kahn University, Nairobi.
I am married to Han Bruls and have 2 children, Huub & Laura (42 and 40 yrs) & 3 grandchildren: Siem, Zoe & Zeger. Zoe died early in life.