Erica LT van den Akker is pediatric endocrinologist and associate professor. She is head of the division of Pediatric Endocrinology at the department of Pediatrics Erasmus University Medical Center Sophia Children’s Hospital and lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. She is co-founder of Obesity Clinic CGG, together with Prof Liesbeth van Rossum, which is an EASO Center of Management for diagnosis and treatment of children and adults with obesity.
The center is national referral center for genetic obesity. Van den Akker is member of the clinical practice committee of the European Society of Pediatric Endocrinology and member of the steering group Growth and Obesity of the European Reference Network EndoERN and Erasmus MC HCP representative for EndoERN.
