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Michael Naafs

Name Michael Naafs
University Naafs Health Consultancy
Country Netherlands
Position Editorial board member

Biography

Michael A.B. Naafs is a Dutch internist-endocrinologist with a long clinical career in internal medicine and endocrinology .

His Ph.D Endocrinology was obtained at Leiden University (1988) and focused on the renal end-organ resistance to PTH (Parathormone) infusion in normo-and hypercalcaemic patients with solid tumors secreting a PTH-like factor.

Other area’s of interest are clinical  pharmacology where he was in the front of clinical research  of transdermal nitroglycerin patches.(1984) Recently he participated in the standard book project  “Drug Discovery and Evaluation: Methods in Clinical Pharmacolgy “Eds Hock.F.J,Gralinski M.R  2nd Edition,,2017,Springer Verlag, providing the section “Pharmacodynamic Evaluation: Endocrinology “.

In infectious medicine he was one of the first to report about HIV-2 infection (1990) Experience in HIV,MDRTB and  tropical Infectious medicine was acquired during a one year stay at Nelson Mandela Academic Hospital,Umthata,South Africa.( 2008).

At present he works as an independent health consultant (Naafs International Health Consultancy ) and as a Medical  Writer. Michael is an editorial board member of a number open access journals and the author of tenfolds of publications.