Dr. Carry M. Renders

Introduction

I am working as a assistant Professor at the section Prevention and Public Health and am involved in education in the field of Prevention and Public Health. I have expertise in research in the field of overweight/obesity and diabetes in children and adolescents (0-19 years) and in the field of quality of care for patients with type 2 diabetes in primary care. Moreover I am working as a research coordinator and associate lector “the Healthy City” at the Research Center Prevention of Overweight at the University of applied Sciences Windesheim in the city of Zwolle. Here I am involved in research in the field of integral and community based approaches to tackle the public health problem of overweight in youth (0-19 years). In addition I am involved in the Knowledge Center Overweight (KCO) of which I have been projectmanager from 2002 till 2009. The KCO was established in 2002 with subsidies from the Ministry of Health to enhance knowledge about the aetiology, prevention, treatment options and consequences of overweight and obesity. Its goal is to provide professionals with access to this knowledge and to encourage research(www.overgewicht.org).


Academic training:

1995 MSc in Biomedical Health Sciences at the Catholic University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

2001 PhD at the Faculty of Medicine  (thesis: Interventions to improve quality of diabetes care in primary care, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research (EMGO⁺⁾ VU University Medical Center, The Netherlands.


Research Projects:

Early detection and prevention of overweight: TOP-study

• Evaluation of the Dutch preventive Youth Health Care (YHC) Overweight Prevention-protocol and Overweight Detection-protocol among 5-year-old children in a cluster randomized trial
• Cost-effectiveness of a modified intensive lifestyle intervention and chronic disease management in severely obese children and adolescents
• Targets for the prevention of overweight and obesity in children (4-12 years): The ChecKid study.
• Preventing overweight in students (12 – 14 year) at lower vocational schools
• The development of a healthy neighbourhood approach, where the community based approach and health in all policies approach strengthen each other
• Development and evaluation of an intervention aimed at parenting support for the prevention of overweight in children
• Guideline for the prevention of overweight within Youth Health Care

 
Selected Publications

Renders CM, Valk GD, Griffin S, Wagner EH, Eijk JThM van, Assendelft WJJ. Interventions to improve the management of diabetes mellitus in primary care, outpatient and community settings. A systematic review. Diabetes Care 2001;24:1821-33.

Renders CM, Valk GD, Franse LV, Schellevis FG, Eijk JThM van, Wal G van der. Long-term effectiveness of a quality improvement program for patients with type 2 diabetes in general practice. Diabetes Care 2001; 24:1365-70.

Doak CM, Visscher TLS, Renders CM, Seidell JC. The prevention of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents: a review of interventions and programmes. Obesity reviews 2006;7:111-36.

Rotteveel J, Belksma EJ, Renders CM, Hirasing RA, Delemarre- Van de Waal HA. Type 2 diabetes in children in the Netherlands: the need for diagnostic protocols.  Eur J Endocrinol. 2007 Aug;157(2):175-80.

de Kroon MLA, Renders CM, Kuipers ECC, van Wouwe JP, van Buuren S, de Jonge GA, Hirasing RA. Identifying metabolic syndrome in young adults without blood tests. The Terneuzen birth cohort. Eur J Public Health 2008; 18:656-60.

L Veldhuis, MK Struijk, W Kroeze, A Oenema, CM Renders, AMW Bulk-Bunschoten, RA HiraSing, H Raat.  'Be active, eat right', evaluation of an overweight prevention protocol among 5-year-old children: design of a cluster randomised controlled trial. BMC Public Health2009, 9:177

De Kroon ML, Renders CM, Van Wouwe JP, Van Buuren S, Hirasing RA. The Terneuzen birth cohort: BMI changes between 2 and 6 years correlate strongest with adult overweight. PLoS One. 2010 Feb 11;5(2):e9155.




Last update June 21, 2010