Professor Louis Gooren
- Present position: professor of endocrinology at the special chair
of transsexology at the Free University Amsterdam / the Netherlands
- Medical education at the medical school of University of Nijmegen
1962-1970, obtained degree: medical docotor
- Two years locum work as general practicioner
- Training in internal medicine / endocrinology Free University Hospital
of Amsterdam 1972-1976
- Start of the gender clinic at the Free University Hospital in 1975
- Further training in psychoendocrinology at Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, USA in 1976-with prof John Money.
- Registration as specialist in internal medicine / endocrinology in
1977
- PhD degree Free University of Amsterdam. Title of the thesis: Testicular
hormones and the secretion of LH, FSH, and prolactin in 1981
- Since 1981 on the permanent staff of the Department of Endocrinology
of the Free University Hospital of Amsterdam. Head of the subdivison of
Andrology
- Appointment to full professor in endocrinology / andrology in 1988
- Research interests 1) errors of sexual differentiation / transsexology
2) testosterone pathophysiology 3) sexual medicine, with numerous scientific
publications in these areas 4) 2) ageing male
- Editor and author of two books on the aging male: The Aging Male
(Louis Gooren & Peter Lim Huat Chye eds). Meditech Media Asia Pacific
Singapore. Textbook of Men’s Health (B. Lunenfeld and L Gooren eds) Parthenon
Publishing Group, London, UK