Hans Wijbrand Hoek

Contact Information
Location:
Kiwistraat 43, 2552 DH The Hague, NL
Tel: +31 (0)88 35703 34
E-mail: w.hoek@parnassia.nl
About
Hans Wijbrand Hoek, MD PhD, is a consultant psychiatrist (1990), a certified epidemiologist and group psychotherapist. He is chair of the Parnassia Academy and director of psychiatric residency of Parnassia Psychiatric Institute (Parnassia Groep) in The Hague, as well as professor of psychiatry at the University of Groningen. He holds an adjunct position as professor of epidemiology at Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, New York. Hans Wijbrand Hoek has published extensively, particularly in the fields of eating disorders and psychosis.His main research topics are the epidemiology, neurobiology and treatment of eating disorders. He has a special interest in transcultural psychiatry. He is involved in the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 (and its predecessor GBD 2010). Hans Wijbrand Hoek was involved in the development of the DSM-5 as a member of the DSM-5 Eating Disorders Work Group and of the DSM-5 Impairment and Disability Study Group. He is past president of the Eating Disorders Research Society and was the recipient of the Academy of Eating Disorders Research Award 2011. He is a member of the editorial board for four eating disorders journals, as well as section editor Eating Disorders for Current Opinion in Psychiatry. He is past chairman of the Steering Group on Eating Disorders in the Netherlands, set up by the Dutch Ministry of Health. He is a consultant for the World Health Organization for the development of the WHODAS 2.0.
Publications
- Altered food-cue processing in chronically ill and recovered women with anorexia nervosa.
- Mental capacity to consent to treatment in anorexia nervosa: explorative study.
- Rate, timing and predictors of relapse in patients with anorexia nervosa following a relapse prevention program: a cohort study.
- Relapse prevention in anorexia nervosa: Experiences of patients and parents.
- Assessment of mental capacity to consent to treatment in anorexia nervosa: A comparison of clinical judgment and MacCAT-T and consequences for clinical practice.
- Intellectual functioning of adolescent and adult patients with eating disorders.
- Mental capacity to consent to treatment and the association with outcome: a longitudinal study in patients with anorexia nervosa
- Eating disorders: the big issue.
- Associations between neural correlates of visusal stimulus processing and set-shifting in ill and recovered women with anorexia nervosa.
- Compulsory treatment in anorexia nervosa: A review.
- Neuropsychological weaknesses in anorexia nervosa: set-shifting, central coherence, and decision making in currently ill and recovered women.
- Hyperactivity in anorexia nervosa: Warming up not just burning-off calories.
- Mandometer treatment not superior to treatment as usual for anorexia nervosa.
- Nurse evaluation of hyperactivity in anorexia nervosa: a comparative study.
- Leptin’s effect on hyperactivity: potential downstream effector mechanisms.
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