Dr Irene T.M. Lindenburg
- Insurance physician (verzekeringsarts)
- PhD (dr.), Leiden University, 2015
- Member, Science Committee, Netherlands Society of Insurance Medicine (NVVG)
Irene Lindenburg is an insurance physician. She received her PhD from Leiden University in 2015 for research on treating severe anaemia in the unborn child with a blood transfusion in the womb.
- Thesis: Leiden University 2015
Her research covered the indications and risks of the procedure, how to monitor its quality, and how the children develop in the long term. She studied the long term as first author of the LOTUS study, which followed 291 children.
- Indications: Fetal Diagn Ther 2014
- Quality: Fetal Diagn Ther 2011
- LOTUS study: Am J Obstet Gynecol 2012
As an insurance physician she writes on work and health. In the educational article Arbeidsgerichte zorg (work-focused health care), she and her co-authors argue that attention to work belongs to every clinician's task.
- Work-focused care: Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd 2025
She is a member of the Science Committee of the Netherlands Society of Insurance Medicine (NVVG), which reviews guidelines, standards and protocols for quality and relevance.
- Science Committee: nvvg.nl
Selected
- 2025
- 2015
Intrauterine blood transfusion: indications, risks, quality control and long-term outcome
Doctoral thesis, Leiden University, 10 September 2015
supervisor D. Oepkes·repository
- 2014
Intrauterine blood transfusion: current indications and associated risks
Fetal Diagn Ther 2014;36(4):263-271
- 2013
BJOG 2013;120(7):847-852
- 2012
Am J Obstet Gynecol 2012;206(2):141.e1-141.e8
- 2011
Fetal Diagn Ther 2011;29(4):307-314
All publications: 19 journal papers (6 as first author), the thesis and 7 conference abstracts.