Netherlands
Respiratory

Janwillem Kocks
MD PhD
Janwillem Kocks is a practicing General Practitioner, Professor of Inhalation Medicine at the Observational and Pragmatic Research Institute in Singapore and managing director of the General Practitioners Research Institute.
He obtained his medical degree in 2004 at the University of Groningen. In January 2005 he started his PhD research within the Groningen Research Institute on Asthma and COPD (GRIAC) resulting in his thesis “Towards health status guided care in COPD”. He combined his PhD training with the specialist training for general practitioner and graduated as general practitioner in March 2009 and obtained his PhD in June 2011.
He visited the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand (headed by Professor Richard Beasley) between July 2013 and February 2014 as senior research fellow and was visiting professor at the Observational & Pragmatic Research Institute (headed by Professor David Price) end of 2017.
He is member of the board of directors of the International Primary Care Respiratory Group (IPCRG) and the past president.
His current research focuses on early diagnosis and individualised management of both asthma and COPD in primary care including improving inhalation technique by education and smart inhalers.