Dr. Hans Vriellink, MD, PhD
Transfusion Medicine and Apheresis Specialist
Senior consultant in Transfusion Medicine and Apheresis
Dr. Vrielink (1958) was educated at the University of Amsterdam in Medicine and wrote his thesis (1996) on the ‘Laboratory diagnosis of viruses transmitted by blood transfusion’. He works since 1985 as transfusion and apheresis medicine specialist at Sanquin Blood Supply Foundation, the national blood transfusion service in the Netherlands. He has published many articles and chapters in internationally recognized journals and books on various subjects. Hans Vrielink is initiator of (inter)national courses in the field of apheresis for physicians and nurses and trained since 2013 almost 1,000 apheresis nurses and physicians.
Presently, Hans Vrielink serves as senior consultant of the Apheresis Department of the Unit of Transfusion Medicine for Sanquin Blood Supply and the department of Sanquin Consulting Services. In the latter part of the function, he is involved in training and advising organisations and governments in low and middle income countries in blood banking, transfusion medicine and apheresis all over the world.
Besides his work at Sanquin Blood Supply, Hans Vrielink is international JACIE / FACT inspector. Hans Vrielink is involved in many international associations, for instance as president of the World Apheresis Association, past-president of the European Society for Hemapheresis, and active in various ISBT working parties.
