D.C.M. (Daniëlle) van der Kaay, PhD

My PhD in pediatric endocrinology focused on treatment (at Sophia Children's Hospital, The Netherlands) and genetics (at CHU Sainte-Justine Research Center, Canada) of short children born small for gestational age. After obtaining my fellowship in pediatric endocrinology at the Hospital for Sick Children in Canada, I worked as a pediatric endocrinologist for 5 years at the Juliana Children's Hospital and Diabeter. In October 2020 I returned to the Erasmus Sophia Children's Hospital. Currently I am head of the clinic of the Expert Center for Rare Growth Disorders and the principal investigator of several national and international studies.

I am a co-promotor of a multicenter study assessing the cost-effectiveness of withdrawing growth hormone treatment after mid-puberty in adolescents with idiopathic isolated growth hormone deficiency. I am also the PI in two international studies assessing the efficacy and safety of long-term growth hormone treatment in short children born small for gestational age, Turner syndrome and Noonan syndrome.

08/2020 - current: Pediatric Endocrinologist, Erasmus MC Sophia Children’s Hospital.

11/2019 - 09/2020: Pediatric Endocrinologist, Diabeter, Rotterdam and Schiphol.

02/2016 - 06/2020: Pediatric Endocrinologist, Juliana Children’s Hospital, The Hague.

01/2013 - 01/2016: Clinical fellowship in Pediatric Endocrinology (The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada; Juliana Children’s Hospital; Sophia Children’s Hospital).

01/2009 - 06/2013: Pediatric training Sophia Children’s Hospital and Amphia Hospital, Breda.

10/2008 - 12/2008: Pediatric resident Sophia Children’s Hospital.

01/2007 - 06/2008: Genetic research, part of PhD-project, titled “Promoter polymorphisms and epigenetic regulation of IGFBP3 and IGFBP1 in relation to growth and risk factors for metabolic disease in short children born small for gestational age” Department of Endocrinology, Sainte-Justine Hospital Research Center, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada.

07/2003 - 09/2008: PhD-student Sophia Children’s Hospital. PhD-project entitled “Efficacy and safety of long-term growth hormone treatment in short children born small for gestational age above the age of 8 years (Dutch SGA study)”. PhD thesis defence November 14, 2008.

A complete overview of publications can be found here:

• D. van der Kaay

July 2021 – current: Co-promotor PhD student project titled “Assessing the cost-effectiveness of withdrawing growth hormone treatment after mid-puberty in adolescents with idiopathic isolated growth hormone deficiency”.

• Secretary of the pediatric endocrinology subsection of Dutch Pediatric Society Committee, February 2023 - current.
• Member Committee ‘Indication for growth hormone treatment in children with rare diseases’, January 2017 - current. 
• Member of the Dutch Pediatric Society Committee to discuss growth hormone treatment in children who do not meet official criteria, January 2019 - July 2020 and July 2021 - January 2023.
• Member working group congenital hypothyroidism and adrenogenital syndrome (Dutch heel prick screening programme) Dutch Pediatric Society, May 2021 - July 2023. 
• Member working group Dutch Pediatric Society to develop research agenda with scientific knowledge gaps, April 2019 - September 2020.
• Member of two-person audit (with prof. dr. A.P. Bos) to evaluate the pediatric endocrinological and general pediatric care in Curaçao, Dutch Caribbean, August 2018.
• Member Haga Hospital Research and Science Committee, February 2016 - October 2019.
• Member Juliana Children’s Hospital Science Committee, July 2015 - October 201.
• Member workgroup to optimize a healthy call schedule, February 2016 - October 2019. 
• Member diabetes workgroup Juliana Children’s Hospital, July 2015 - October 2019.

• 04/2021: Research grant ZonMw of € 640.978, -: “Assessing the cost-effectiveness of withdrawing growth hormone treatment after mid-puberty in adolescents with idiopathic isolated growth hormone deficiency”.
• 06/2016: Research grant of € 6.200, - granted by the Hospital Research Fund for research project titled “The influence of food order on postprandial blood glucose levels in children with type 1 diabetes”. 
• 05/2016: John Caffey Award for Best Educational Exhibit regarding “Pediatric Thyroid Cancer: Common Sonographic Appearances and Pitfalls". 2016 IPR (International Pediatric Radiology) Meeting, Society of Pediatric Radiology. Claudia Martinez-Rios, Lydia Bajno, Alan Daneman, Rahim Moineddin, Danielle CM van der Kaay, Jonathan Wasserman.
• 01/2015: Research grant of $ 3.500, - granted by the Rare Disease Foundation and BC Children’s Hospital Foundation for the research project titled “Pediatric Thyroid Nodule Score (PTNS): Derivation and Validation of a Predictive Score for Pediatric Thyroid Nodules”.
• 01/2007 - 03/2008: Scholarship of € 40.278,75 granted by the Dutch Growth Foundation for the research project titled “Promoter polymorphisms and epigenetic regulation of the IGFBP3 and IGFBP1 in relation to growth and risk factors for metabolic disease in short children born small for gestational age”.