Jan-Maarten Wit

Jan-Maarten Wit

Jan-Maarten Wit, MD, PhD is a Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the Leiden University.

He received his MD (1971) from Leiden University and his PhD (1986) from Utrecht University (Netherlands). His research has focused on the effects of growth hormone treatment, biology of the growth plate, genetic causes of growth disorders, nation-wide growth charts, and the development of referral criteria for short and tall stature. He served on ESPE council (1987-1990), authored the ESPE Classification of Paediatric Endocrine Diagnoses (2007) and is the recipient of the Andrea Prader Prize.