PN 1 | SPEAKER BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
GENERAL INFORMATION
Name
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First Name
Middle Name
Stef
Title
:
Cdr Dr
Country
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The Netherlands
Organization
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Royal Dutch Navy Reserve
Department
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1-CMI (Civil Military Interaction) Command
Position
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SME CBRN (Subject Matter Expert CBRN)
Last Name
Stienstra
BRIEF INFORMATION
Strategic and creative consultant in biomedical science, with a parallel career as a Commander of the reserve
of the Royal Dutch Navy. For the Dutch Armed Forces, he has responsibility for the counter measures in
CBNRe threats and (medical) consequence management both in a military and a civilian (terrorism) setting.
He is strategic functional specialist for “Health & Environment” of the 1-Civil-Military-Interaction Command
(1-CMI) of the Dutch Armed Forces and for 2015 also in the NATO Response Force (NRF).
He was the director of the 2014 and 2016 World Congress of CBRNe Science & Consequence Management in
Tbilisi, Georgia.
In his civil career he works international as a scientific supervisory board member for several medical and
biotech companies, merely involved in biodefense. He is visiting professor for the Rhein-Waal University in
Germany. For Expertise France, a French governmental institute, he is Key Expert for Medical CBRN and
manages now a project in West Africa to support local public health systems to make the EU CBRN Center of
Excellence partner countries more prepared for outbreaks of highly contagious diseases..
Dr Stienstra has finished both his studies in Medicine and in Biochemistry at the University of Groningen in
The Netherlands and has extensive practical experience in cell biology, immuno-hematology, biodefense and
transfusion medicine.
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