Leiden University Medical Center

Olaf Dekkers is a professor at the departments of Clinical Epidemiology and Endocrinology at Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands. He studied medicine philosophy and graduated (MA) on the ‘truth definition according to Frege’. He was trained in epidemiology (MSc) at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Research topics are epidemiology of endocrine diseases, meta-analysis, and methodology of research. He works in close collaboration with the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine in Bern, Switzerland and Department of Clinical Epidemiology in Aarhus, Denmark. He is methodological chair of the guideline committee of the European Society of Endocrinology.

Olaf is also adjunct professor at Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University.

Olaf Dekkers teaches "Meta-analysis" together with Saskia le Cessie on Wednesday, June 12 and Thursday, June 13.