Koen Bolhuis is child and adolescent psychiatrist and assistant professor at the department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychology of the Erasmus University Medical Centre Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He has trained in medicine (MD, Free University of Amsterdam) and genetic epidemiology (MSc, Erasmus University Rotterdam) and has defended his PhD in 2019 (cum laude) on the childhood risk for severe mental illness. Koen has gained further experience in psychiatric epidemiology at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (Dublin, Ireland), Karolinska Institute (Stockholm, Sweden), and the American University of Beirut Medical Centre (Beirut, Lebanon). He currently works at the adolescent inpatient unit and specialist outpatient clinic for bipolar/psychotic symptoms. He is on the board of directors of the LOA Foundation, that aims to improve access to (mental) health care for migrants and refugees, and he is editor-in-chief of De Jonge Psychiater, a Dutch online platform to narrow the gap between psychiatric research and clinical practice.
Koen's clinical and research expertise are in (neuro) developmental and intergenerational origins of psychotic, bipolar and depressive disorders. He aims to improve care pathways and access to care for young people with mental health problems, and is committed to promoting collaborative research across Europe. He is excited to continue the work of Prof. Alexis Revet and Prof. Paul Klauser for the ESCAP Research Academy - together with Dr. Héloïse Young and Dr. Assia Riccioni - to encourage young clinician-scientists in training for research in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry.
