Dr. I.D. (Inge) Wijnberg

Willem C. Schimmelgebouw
Yalelaan 112
Kamer -
3584 CM Utrecht

Dr. I.D. (Inge) Wijnberg

Assistant Professor
Equine Internal Medicine
+31 30 253 1107

Inge D.Wijnberg, graduated in 1990 “with honor’s” as veterinarian at the  University of Utrecht.  Her H index is 24 and RG score 34.4. Her DVM degree included additional doctoral degrees for her almost one  year study program in the USA in 1988-1989.  After working in private practice and a short period at the department of Immunobiology at the RIVM she started in 1995 as Resident Equine Internal Medicine at the Department of Large Animal Internal Medicine and Nutrition at Utrecht University.  A three months training under supervision of Professor Reef (University Pennsylvania, USA) in echography, echocardiography and cardiology was part of the trainee program in 1996. In 2000 she became RNVA Specialist Equine Internal Medicine.

In 2002 she defended her PhD entitled “the diagnostic possibilities of EMG needle examination in the horse”  and received the Doctor degree at UU in Veterinary Medicine. In 2003 a permanent position as assistant professor UU was obtained and in 2004 the registration  as Specialist EVCS in the ECEIM register was a fact.  Her focus in clinics are infectious diseases, cardiology, neuromuscular diseases and neonatology.  She coordinated the Neonatal Foal Intensive Care Unit from 1996-2016. Until September 2016 she was chairman of the Bachelor program  “Circulation”  of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine , Utrecht University. From 2003- 2016 she was (co)organizer of the Bachelor program “ Clinical Reasoning  and Clinical skills”  Veterinary Medicine and member of the working group bachelor Respiratory diseases and neurology. Other activities were member of the Education committee, Quality Committee for educational qualification, active member of the University Labour Representation Board, education Advisory Committee.

She is a member of the ECEIM exam question writing group. She has been visiting professor at the University of Brno, Czech Republic and St George University Grenada West Indies, Buenos Aires and trained many specialist over the world in many international workshops and courses. She initiated and participated in several national and international research projects, occasionally involving other species and is Chief Specialty Editor for Frontiers in Veterinary Medicine Section Comparative and Clinical Sciences. With her as (co-) author over 135 publications are recorded in Research gate. She initiated and supervised three PhD tracts.

Since September 2016  continues her UU work for 1 day per week and she participates in the emergency shift on a regular basis. In addition she works fulltime as Senior advisor for the Coordination Expert Centre working circumstances and preventive health for the Ministry of Defence in the cluster (micro)biology and infectious diseases. Topics include Bioterrorism, transport hygiene, diagnostics  field detection of infectious agents, and military working animals. In this position she is also active as representative expert for the Ministry of Defence in several NATO panels (FWSVS, C-IED MWD working group and BIOMED-P). She is governmental senior advisor for the MOD in the EDA CAPtech CBRN and HF. Other tasks are project management on research projects on bio- diagnostic, biodetection and outbreak management in cooperation with other (research) partners such as TNO,  RIVM, and Biotrack.