Guido completed his medical degree in 2018 at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. In 2018, he wrote his master thesis, “Establishing a parathyroid cell-line”, at the Mannstadt Laboratory of the Endocrine Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, United States. 

From 2013 to 2015, he worked at the Calcium and Bone-metabolism laboratory, department of Internal Medicine of the Erasmus MC in Rotterdam as a research assistant on his own project “The identification and characterization of possible cancer stem cells in bone metastasis of prostate cancer.”

In March 2019, Guido started his PhD the department of General Practice at the Erasmus MC. He finished his thesis “Children and adolescents with musculoskeletal complaints: prevalence, characteristics and management” in June 2024 and will defend his thesis on March 12th 2025. From September 2019 he also took part in the vocational training to be a general practitioner but in June 2024 voluntarily left the training program.

During his PhD in 2022 he also obtained his Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology at the Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences (NIHES) at the Erasmus MC Graduate School.

Currently, Guido is appointed as Epidemiologist, working within the DARWIN EU® project.

Publications

van Leeuwen GJ, de Schepper EI, Rathleff MS, Bindels PJ, Bierma-Zeinstra SM, van Middelkoop M. Incidence and management of Osgood-Schlatter disease in general practice: retrospective cohort study. Br J Gen Pract. 2022 Mar 31;72(717):e301-e306. 

van Leeuwen GJ, de Schepper EIT, Bindels PJE, Bierma-Zeinstra SMA, van Middelkoop M. Patellofemoral pain in general practice: the incidence and management. Fam Pract. 2023 Nov 23;40(4):589-595. 
 
van Leeuwen GJ, van den Heuvel MM, Bindels PJE, Bierma-Zeinstra SMA, van Middelkoop M. Musculoskeletal pain in 13-year-old children: the generation R study. Pain. 2024 Aug 1;165(8):1806-1813.

van Leeuwen GJ, Kemmeren LAM, Piscaer TM, Oei EHG, Bindels PJE, Bierma-Zeinstra SMA, van Middelkoop M. Knee Pain, Joint Loading, and Structural Abnormalities on MRI in 13-Year-Old Children in a Population-Based Birth Cohort. Am J Sports Med. 2024 Oct;52(12):3046-3053.