Medicine Matters oncology

Liverpool, UK

Professor Postmus was born in 1951 and obtained his MD at the University of Groningen in 1976. He trained as a pulmonologist in the University Hospital of Groningen from 1977–1981 and has worked in the field of thoracic oncology since 1978.

He defended his doctorate thesis “New approaches in small cell lung cancer” in 1985 and became Associate Professor in the Department of Pulmonary Diseases at the University Hospital of Groningen from 1989–1992.

Professor Postmus was Head Of Department and Professor of Pulmonary Diseases from 1992–2014 in Amsterdam. He was also a board member of (IASLC) from 2003 to 2011 and President of the World Conference on Lung Cancer (WCLC) 2011, held in Amsterdam.

Since March 2015 he has been Professor of Thoracic Oncology in Liverpool. His research in thoracic oncology focuses on early detection, endobronchial therapy, staging procedures, testing and introducing new drugs and new combinations, and methods to communicate and inform patients and relatives.