Albert Wiegman, MD, PhD, FESC

Associate professor
Principal Investigator
Chair Examiners Medical Faculty
Amsterdam UMC
University of Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Albert Wiegman was born on June 28th,1956 in Amsterdam.

In 1984 he graduated as a MD.

He was registered as a pediatrician in 1991 and became member of the pediatric staff at the Academic Medical Center from that moment on.

His specialization in pediatric cardiology was completed in 1993.

The pediatric-lipid outpatient department came under his care from 1993 on.

In the same year, he started his research into the treatment of familial hypercholesterolemia in children in co-operation with the research team of Prof. J.J.P. Kastelein, head of the department of vascular medicine.

In 2003, he brought his research to completion in his thesis: ‘Pediatric implications of heterozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia’.

From 1996 till 2011, Albert was asked by the Board of the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam to hold the post of medical director, in a combination with being a pediatric cardiologist.

In 2011, he was invited to become the chairman of The Apostolic Society, still in combination with pediatric cardiology at the Academic Medical Center.

He is married and lives in Diemen, nearby the city of Amsterdam.