Dr Marjolein den Toom
Marjolein den Toom graduated as a veterinarian at the University of Utrecht in 2005. After 4 years of working in practice, she returned to the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Utrecht. Here she went through a general rotation and her specialist training as a cardiologist to successfully complete it in 2018.
Currently she works as a cardiologist (EBVS, European Veterinary Specialist
Cardiology Companion Animals) at the emergency and referral clinic of Evidensia in
Nieuwegein, the Netherlands. Her research and interest
area include hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) in the cat and congenital heart
disease and pulmonary hypertension in the dog. She
will continue to combine her work in practice with her PhD research into the (genetic) background of
congenital heart disease in dogs, in collaboration with
researchers from the faculty of veterinary medicine of Utrecht University.
In addition, she is the head of the cardiology department of Evidensia in the
Netherlands and is in charge of the development of post graduate education in
cardiology for the Evidensia Academy in the Netherlands.