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| Professor Ben Mol |
Professor Mol’s research is focused on the
organisation of multi-centric evaluative research in Obstetrics, Gynaecology
and Fertility.
“My research is focused mainly upon
everyday practices—my most important task is the stimulation and innovation of
evaluative research in obstetrics, gynaecology and reproductive medicine,”
Professor Mol said.
After studying medicine at the University
of Amsterdam, Professor Mol worked in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology
and Biostatistics at the Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam (AMC). In 1999 he obtained his doctorate with honours at the Faculty
of Medicine, University of Amsterdam with his dissertation entitled Evaluating
the effectiveness of diagnostic tests: tubal subfertility and ectopic pregnancy.
Professor Mol trained as a gynaecologist at the
University Medical Centre (Universitair Medisch Centrum) in Utrecht and from
2002 he was a senior researcher in the department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
at the AMC. From 2003 to 2007, he worked as a gynaecologist-perinatologist at
the Maxima Medisch Centrum, in Eindhoven, and between 2007-2013 as Professor of
Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the AMC in Amsterdam.
Professor Mol was instrumental in initiating the Dutch
consortium for Research in Women’s Health, in which 70 hospitals collaborate in
multicentre trials. Main topics that
were evaluated were timing and methods of induction of labour, prevention of
preterm birth with pessary, tocolysis, indications for IVF, tubal flushing for
infertility and treatment of menorrhagia.
He has worked at the University of Adelaide since 2014,
and holds an NHMRC practitioner fellowship, which was awarded as the highest
ranked application in 2014. During his time in Adelaide, Professor Mol
developed extensive relations with Asian universities.
“I am delighted to be starting my appointment at
Monash University and Monash Health,” Professor Mol said.
“My ambitions at Monash are to translate the findings
of clinical practice, to initiate a Victorian clinical trial network in women’s
health research, to extend my global collaborations and to mentor junior
colleagues in these ambitions.”
Professor Mol’s professional adage is ‘A day
without randomisation is a day without progress'.
