Willem Anton van Vloten | |
Birth Date: | 7 June 1941 |
Birth Place: | Bandung, Dutch East Indies |
Nationality: | Dutch |
Field: | Dermatology |
Alma Mater: | University of Leiden |
Willem Anton van Vloten (Bandung, 7 June 1941) is a Dutch dermatologist.[1] [2]
Van Vloten studied medicine at the University of Leiden where he graduated on 19 June 1974. He was appointed as a professor of dermatology and venereology in 1980. Later he was appointed as a dermatology professor at the University of Utrecht on 8 November 1984 and worked there till 1 June 2001.[2]
In 1999, he won the Van Vlissingenprijs of the Foundation 'Ank van Vlissingen Fonds' which is given to persons and institutions which contributed much to the research of the causes and treatment of malignant lymph node diseases and the improvement of the quality of life of the patients who suffer from such afflictions.[3]