With a focus on Medical Education, we are proud to announce our next speaker:

Professor Wolter Mooi

After studying medicine and pathology in Leiden, Amsterdam and London, and a period of several years as head of the Department of Pathology at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, Dr Mooi became the youngest Dutch pathologist to be appointed to a chair in Pathology, at the VU University Amsterdam.

Subsequent professorship appointments followed at Erasmus University Rotterdam and the University of Amsterdam. Author of several scientific textbooks and 160 peer-reviewed papers, including recent ones in Nature, Cell and the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr Mooi divides his time between undergraduate teaching, scientific research, and diagnostic histopathology.

An internationally recognized authority on the pathology of melanocytic tumors, Dr Mooi receives large numbers of problem cases for expert consultation, and is a much sought-after speaker at international pathology congresses and meetings.

Medical Education Revolution

Quite some inspiration can be taken from Sir Ken Robinson and his TED talk which you can see here below on the “Learning Revolution”, where he sites how we need to change our current methodologies and paradigms of Education and not just the mere attempt of “Evolution”, but “Revolution”.

Quoting Sir Ken Robinson “human communities depend upon a diversity of talent, not a singular conception of ability.” and it is this thought and vision we need to see somehow implemented in a structure which has its challenges in changing.

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