Leiden University Medical Center

[intro music] Hello, everyone, and welcome to AtheroTalk, the podcast from the EAS Young Fellows, where we bring you closer to the people and, uh, ideas shaping cardiovascular science and atherosclerosis research.

My name is Yusuf Ziya Sener, and it is my pleasure to introduce today's guest, Professor Patrick Rensen from Leiden University Medical Center.

Professor Patrick Rensen is a professor of endocrinology at Leiden University Medical Center, former chairman of the European Lipoprotein Club, and current board member of the Scandinavian Society for, uh, Atherosclerosis Research and Dutch, uh, Atherosclerosis Society.

His research is focused on the role of interorgan crosstalk in glucose and, uh, lipid metabolism in relation to cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.

Professor Rensen, welcome to AtheroTalk, and thank you for being here with us today.

Um, I've been studying biopharmaceutical sciences in Leiden when I was much younger, and after that, uh, I became a postdoc at TNO.

That's a CRO company also in Leiden.

And from there, I got a permanent job at the Leiden University Medical Center, where I'm now heading a research group as a professor since, I guess, two thousand twelve.

I'm a pulmonologist by training, but I spent my entire, uh, life, um, treating patients with lung cancer, including patients with HER2-positive lung cancer a long time ago.

Uh, my current affiliation is in, uh, Leiden University Medical Center in Leiden in the Netherlands.

Thank you, Egbert.

So, uh, a brief summary of, uh, this program.

Um, to actually get people to do that and to sit through that, and while they're actually at a festival, and they just wanna drink a few beers and listen to bands and dance, is amazing.

Um, uh, in the Netherlands, I'm working with colleagues at, uh, Leiden University Medical Center, where we've done a few pilots.

We, uh, I just really wanna measure s- measure people's thresholds before they go into a dance night, and immediately after, like, you know, like, like, like almost two minutes after.

Like, um-

She currently serves on the editorial board of the International Wound Journal.

And Dr. Daniel Afding, MD, PhD, is a vascular surgeon affiliated with Hague Medical Center and Leiden University Medical Center.

He has extensive research contributions with work centered on vascular surgery, peripheral artery disease, wound healing, vascular access, aortic disease, and endovascular techniques.

Well, thank you so much, Owen and Dan.

Reuters reports the Dutch health ministry described the patient as an MSF doctor.

Leiden University Medical Center confirmed the arrival at 10 p.m. local time Thursday on a special flight with precautionary measures into a high-level isolation unit.

The hospital says it runs regular drills for exactly this.

And that's all we get about the patient?

It is a pleasure to be here.

I'm very happy to talk about this work, which was, by the way, led by Chin-Yu Yang, and it also depended on a wonderful team of patients, clinicians, nurses, laboratory colleagues, and collaborators at Leiden University Medical Center.

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I'm sure we don't have to introduce it too much more to our audience.