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Prof Marco H Blanker
University Medical Center Groningen

ICS 2018

Open Discussion Session 28 Open Discussion ePosters 568 Scientific evidence for pelvic floor devices

ICS 2017

Podium Short Oral Session 15 Male Lower Urinary Tract Dysfunction 270 Patient Attitudes towards Deprescribing of alpha-blockers and willingness to participate in a discontinuation trial

ICS 2016

Podium Short Oral Session 4 Male Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms - Should We Treat Only the Prostate? 38 Discontinuation of alpha-blocker therapy in male lower urinary tract symptoms: a systematic review

Podium Short Oral Session 4 Male Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms - Should We Treat Only the Prostate? 39 Prescription patterns of alpha-blockers for male Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms in Dutch men.

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Marco Blanker

ICS Committee Member

Profession:General Practitioner
Qualifications:PhD Staff Member Chairman of Department/Section Professor
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General practitioner since 2004; Epidemiologist since 2002; Doctoral thesis "Normal values and determinants of urogenital tract (dys)function in older men: The Krimpen Study" (promotor Siep Thomas and Ruud Bosch).

Currently working as a GP in a group practice (3 days/week), and as associated professor at the department of general practice and elderly care medicine of the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), the Netherlands. Main scientific interest in functional urology and urogynaecology.

Lead of research program pelvic- and abdominal problems in primary care at UMCG.
Principle investigator of:

  • Exploring the male and female pelvic floor: the Coevorden study
  • URinControl study (RCT comparing a mobile application with care as usual for urinary incontinence in women in general practice)
  • alpha-blocker cohort study (prospective cohort study in men treated with an alpha-blocker)
  • self-management for male LUTS, a new online personalised intervention (observational cohort study)
  • enuresis in adolescents and adults (retrospective cohort study)
  • Child incontinence (retrospective cohort study, qualitative study, prospective cohort study)
  • recurrent UTIs (retrospective cohort study, qualitative study, prospective cohort study)
  • Overactive Bladder - treatment pathways (qualitative study, retrospective cohort study)

Evidence based medicine (EBM) teacher for the vocational training of general practitioners (both for trainers and trainees) at the University Medical Center Groningen.

Member of the ICUD subcommittee on nocturia and the ICS/ICCS Nocturia and nocturnal enuresis working group; corresponding author of the Dutch GP-guideline Male LUTS (finished 2013; revision ongoing); member of guideline committee BPH/LUTS of the Dutch Society of Urology (NVU, finished 2018).

Prof Marco H Blanker declared on the Wednesday 3rd January 2024 that they had the following existing or known future financial relationships or affiliations:

URinControl

  • Other: IP holder URinControl app, no income from this
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