Aartjan Beekman

PROF.DR., (Principal Investigator)

Full Professor, Psychiatry
Full Professor, APH - Mental Health
Full Professor, Amsterdam Neuroscience - Mood, Anxiety & Psychosis
Full Professor, CCA - Treatment and quality of life

If you made any changes in Pure these will be visible here soon.

Personal profile

Research interests

Aartjan Beekman studied medicine at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (1977-1985). He specialized in Psychiatry at GGZ-BuitenAmstel and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (1987-1991).
He was trained in Child and adolescent psychiatry at Curium Oegstgeest and Social Psychiatry at the CRD Amsterdam.
He recieved his PhD in 1996 (cum laude) and was registered as an epidemiologist-B in 1999.

From 2003 untill 2008 Aartjan Beekman was Head of the training facility of GGZ Buitenamstel/VUmc.
In 2003 he became Professor of Psychiatry.
From 2004-2010 Aartjan was Head of the research program Mental Health at the EMGO⁺ Institute VUmc
in 2007 he became Head of department Psychiatry VUmc.
In 2008 he also became a member of the board of GGZ inGeest.
In 2011 - 2016 he was appointed President of NVvP (Dutch association of Psychiatry)

Research interests

a.beekman@ggzingeest.nl

+31207884535

Network Recent external collaboration on country level. Dive into details by clicking on the dots.

Research Output 1996 2019

496 Article
31 Research VU University Amsterdam, graduation VU University Amsterdam
18 Chapter
13 Research external, graduation VU University Amsterdam
31 More

A 6-year longitudinal study of predictors for suicide attempts in major depressive disorder

Eikelenboom, M., Beekman, A. T. F., Penninx, B. W. J. H. & Smit, J. H., 1 Apr 2019, In : Psychological Medicine. 49, 6, p. 911-921 11 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Accuracy of the Delirium Observational Screening Scale (DOS) as a screening tool for delirium in patients with advanced cancer

Neefjes, E. C. W., Van Der Vorst, M. J. D. L., Boddaert, M. S. A., Verdegaal, B. A. T. T., Beeker, A., Teunissen, S. C. C., Beekman, A. T. F., Zuurmond, W. W. A., Berkhof, J. & Verheul, H. M. W., 19 Feb 2019, In : BMC Cancer. 19, 1, 160.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Open Access

Antidepressiva in de dagelijkse praktijk

de Wit, L., Beekman, A., Maarsingh, OR., van der Horst, H. & Vinkers, C., 1 Dec 2019, In : Huisarts en Wetenschap. 62, 12, p. 24-28 5 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Association of Whole-Genome and NETRIN1 Signaling Pathway–Derived Polygenic Risk Scores for Major Depressive Disorder and White Matter Microstructure in the UK Biobank

Barbu, M. C., Zeng, Y., Shen, X., Cox, S. R., Clarke, T. K., Gibson, J., Adams, M. J., Johnstone, M., Haley, C. S., Lawrie, S. M., Deary, I. J., Wray, N. R., Ripke, S., Mattheisen, M., Trzaskowski, M., Byrne, E. M., Abdellaoui, A., Adams, M. J., Agerbo, E., Air, T. M. & 51 othersAndlauer, T. F. M., Bacanu, S. A., Bækvad-Hansen, M., Bigdeli, T. B., Beekman, A. T. F., Binder, E. B., Blackwood, D. H. R., Bryois, J., Buttenschøn, H. N., Bybjerg-Grauholm, J., Cai, N., Castelao, E., Christensen, J. H., Clarke, T. K., Coleman, J. R. I., Colodro-Conde, L., Couvy-Duchesne, B., Craddock, N., Crawford, G. E., Davies, G., Deary, I. J., Degenhardt, F., Jansen, R., Middeldorp, C. M., Milaneschi, Y., Peyrot, W. J., Posthuma, D., Smit, J. H., de Geus, E. J. C., Penninx, B. W. J. H., Major Depressive Disorder Working Group of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium, 23andMe Research team, Perlis, R. H., Porteous, D. J., Potash, J. B., Preisig, M., Rietschel, M., Schaefer, C., Schulze, T. G., Smoller, J. W., Stefansson, K., Tiemeier, H., Uher, R., Völzke, H., Weissman, M. M., Werge, T., Lewis, C. M., Levinson, D. F., Breen, G., Børglum, A. D. & Sullivan, P. F., 1 Jan 2019, In : Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging. 4, 1, p. 91-100 10 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review