Raymond Koopmans, MD
(Netherlands), Board of Directors

Raymond Koopmans was born in Tegelen, a little town in the south of the Netherlands. Between 1977 and 1985, he went to medical school at the Radboud University Nijmegen. After graduating, he started working as a nursing home physician in the ‘Margiet’ nursing home and in 1987 he went to the ‘Joachim en Anna’ nursing home, where he is still employed for three half-days a week.

Between 1990 and 1994, he wrote a PhD thesis and in 1995 he started the specialist training program for nursing home physicians at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre. From 1995 until now, he has held several academic positions. In March 2005, he received a chair in Nursing Home Medicine, which was prolonged in 2010 and renamed in “Elderly care Medicine, especially long-term care.” The main focus of his research program is on the course of dementia patients with specific attention to neuropsychiatric symptoms and their pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatment. Three PhD projects especially address patients with early onset dementia. Moreover, he is specifically interested in the advanced stages of dementia, e.g., the final phase of dementia.

Raymond Koopmans is married to Annet van den Broek and has three children (one daughter and two sons; 17, 16 and 14 years of age). He lives in Malden, a small town 5 km south of Nijmegen. His hobbies are gardening, listening to music, attending concerts, playing squash, reading books and visiting friends and family.

He can be contacted at R.Koopmans@elg.umcn.nl.
 

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