Research Consortium
Study Group for Neurovascular Complications of Diabetes Mellitus (NVCD)
The NVCD is a research consortium consisting of several medical specialists and diabetic foot researchers involved in clinical care of and research to persons with foot complications of diabetes.
Members are:
- M. Truijers, MD, PhD, Vascular Surgeon, Spaarne Gasthuis, Haarlem
- J. Franken, MD, Spaarne Gasthuis, Haarlem
- O. Bakker, MD, PhD, vascular surgeon, St Antonius Ziekenhuis, Nieuwegein
- W. Brekelmans, MD, Alrijne Hospital, Leiderdorp
- S.A. Bus, PhD, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam
- W. Laar, MD, Orthopedic Surgeon, Alrijne Hospital, Leiderdorp
- SJJ Netten, PhD, Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam
- J. Oskam, MD, PhD, Isala Hospital, Zwolle
- I. Ruys, MSc, Maxima Medisch Centrum, Veldhoven
- D.W. van Wylick, MD, Spaarne Gasthuis
- N.C. Schaper, MUMC+, Maastricht
- E.J.G. Peters, MD, PhD, internist, Amsterdam UMC
Consultants
Edgar J.G. Peters, MD, PhD
Internist | Infectious Diseases | Acute Medicine Specialist
Amsterdam UMC
Edgar J.G. Peters started medical school in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in 1993. He has worked in 1997 and 1998 as a researcher at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, Texas, USA. He graduated medical school of VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam in 2000 cum laude. In 2002, he finished a PhD thesis on diabetic foot complications. He is dually registered in both Infectious Diseases and Acute Medicine. He currently works as Internist, Infectious Diseases and Acute Medicine Specialist at Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location VUmc, where he is the director of the Infectious Diseases Fellowship Program. His main research interest is infections of the musculoskeletal system, especially diabetic foot infections and bone infection. Recent research projects were to the microbiome of diabetic foot bone infection (osteomyelitis), monitoring treatment of osteomyelitis with biomarkers, cold atmospheric plasma treatment of diabetic foot ulcers, and diagnostic strategies for diabetic foot osteomyelitis. He has combined diabetic foot research with research to other musculoskeletal infections, e.g., prosthetic joint prosthesis associated infection. He has also been involved in writing guidelines for treatment of diabetic foot complications for the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Wound Healing Society, the European Wound Management Association, the International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot and the Dutch Internist Society (NIV). He also chairs the Dutch guideline committee for prosthetic joint associated infections. He is the Scientific Secretary of the International Symposium on the Diabetic Foot. Edgar Peters has authored over 100 journal articles and books chapters.
Louise W.E. Sabelis, MD, PhD
Physiatrist
Amsterdam UMC
Louise W.E. Sabelis started medical school in Maastricht, The Netherlands in 1992 and graduated in 1999. From 1999-2004 she worked as a researcher at the University in Utrecht, The Netherlands at the department of Sports Medicine and Exercise Physiology and finished a PhD thesis on insulin sensitivity in chronic heart failure patients. In 2005 she started a traineeship in rehabilitation medicine in Amsterdam from which she graduated in 2010. Since then she works as physiatrist with special interest in diabetic foot complications at the Amsterdam University Medical Centers, location VUmc. She fulfills a leading role in the alliance of the diabetic foot clinics of both locations (VUmc and AMC) of the Amsterdam University Medical Centers. In her role as clinician, she participates in research in the field of the diabetic foot on both locations.
PhD students
Meryl C.T.T. Gramberg, MD, MSc
Resident Internal Medicine, PhD-student
Rimke Lagrand, MD, MSc
Physiatrist, PhD-student
