On Thursday evening, on the occasion of his farewell from the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), Doctor Frank Kroon received a royal decoration.
Kroon received the ribbon from Mayor Henri Lenferink of Leiden. Kroon conducted research in the field of HIV and AIDS. Thanks in part to these studies, an infection with HIV has become a chronic disease in contrast to thirty years ago.
Kroon was appointed at the LUMC in 1983. During his training as an internist-infectiologist, AIDS was still an almost untreatable and stigmatizing disease.
The doctor was committed to improving the quality of HIV care within and outside the Netherlands. He conducted scientific research into the usefulness of preventive vaccinations in this patient group, for which he received the Dick Held Prize in 2000.
He also played a role in gaining knowledge about how people with HIV can be protected as much as possible against certain infectious diseases.
Kroon also contributed to the development of professional behavior, also at the LUMC. For ten years he gave a week of in-service training in Suriname to all layers of healthcare that were involved with HIV.
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