Manon Benders

Full Professor

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Biography

Manon Benders is professor in Neonatology of the Wilhelmina Children's hospital, UMC Utrecht. Currently she is head of the Department since 2015 (18 stafmembers/fellows and 10 physician assistents).

She obtained her PhD degree in Leiden (1999, Prof. Margot van der Bor). She was qualified as a Pediatrician-Neonatologist since 2006 (prof. Frank van Bel). thereafter she did a fellowship in Neonatal Neurology (prof. Linda de Vries).

She has been a consultant neonatologist in the Wilhelmina Children’s hospital of the University Medical Center in Utrecht, the Netherlands since 2006. In 2014 she was working as a senior clinical lecturer, King’s college London and honary consultant in Neonatology at Guy’s and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.

Before she did a junior research fellowship on cerebral ultrasound (Prof. dr. F. Walther) in UCLA in 1997, USA and a senior neonatal neurology research fellowship on neonatal...

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Contact

m.benders@umcutrecht.nl

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Research groups

Congenital heart disease

Research aim

To improve long term cardiovascular and neurodevelopmental outcome in patients with severe congenital heart disease.

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Perinatal neuroimaging & neuromonitoring

Research aim

We use longitudinal fetal and neonatal neuroimaging and neuromonitoring to study brain development and function, model brain diseases, and improve long term outcome in high-risk infants.

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Protection and repair of the injured newborn brain

Research aim

Our mission is to unravel the impact of early life adversity, such as perinatal asphyxia and stroke, preterm birth and early life stress on brain development and to design strategies to improve outcome of affected infants, shaping a better future.

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Perinatal surgery & brain damage

Research aim

Our mission is to unravel the impact of neonatal surgery, as well for congenital heart defects as non-cardiac anomalies on brain injury, development and long-term impairments to develop strategies to improve long-term outcome shaping a better future.

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Recent publications

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Physicians' required competencies in AI-assisted clinical settings Lotte Schuitmaker, Jojanneke Drogt, Manon Benders, Karin Jongsma
British Medical Bulletin, 2025, vol. 153

Neuroprotective therapies in the NICU in preterm infants Eleanor J. Molloy, Mohamed El-Dib, Janet Soul, Sandra Juul, Alistair J. Gunn, Manon Benders, Fernando Gonzalez, Cynthia Bearer, Yvonne Wu, Nicola J. Robertson, Mike Cotton, Aoife Branagan, Tim Hurley, Sidhartha Tan, Abbot Laptook, Topun Austin, Khorshid Mohammad, Elizabeth Rogers, Karen Luyt, Pia Wintermark, Sonia Lomeli Bonifacio, Sonia Lomeli Bonifacio,... Show all

Brain MRI Injury Patterns across Gestational Age among Preterm Infants with Perinatal Asphyxia Corline E J Parmentier, Loubna El Bakkali, Elise A Verhagen, Sylke J Steggerda, Thomas Alderliesten, Maarten H Lequin, Laura A van de Pol, Manon J N L Benders, Frank van Bel, Corine Koopman-Esseboom, Timo R de Haan, Linda S de Vries, Floris Groenendaal
Neonatology, 2024, vol. 121, p.616-626

Neuroinflammatory markers at school age in preterm born children with neurodevelopmental impairments S Van der Zwart, E F Knol, P Gressens, C Koopman, M Benders, E Roze
Brain, behavior, & immunity - health, 2024, vol. 38

Correction: Detailed statistical analysis plan for ALBINO: effect of Allopurinol in addition to hypothermia for hypoxic-ischemic Brain Injury on Neurocognitive Outcome — a blinded randomized placebo-controlled parallel group multicenter trial for superior Corinna Engel, Mario Rüdiger, Manon J.N.L. Benders, Frank van Bel, Karel Allegaert, Gunnar Naulaers, Dirk Bassler, Katrin Klebermaß-Schrehof, Maximo Vento, Ana Vilan, Mari Falck, Isabella Mauro, Marjo Metsäranta, Sampsa Vanhatalo, Jan Mazela, Tuuli Metsvaht, Roselinda van der Vlught, Axel R. Franz,
Trials, 2024, vol. 25

Morbidity and trends in length of hospitalisation of very and extremely preterm infants born between 2008 and 2021 in the Netherlands Karen De Bijl-Marcus, Manon J.N.L. Benders, Jeroen Dudink, Kees Ahaus, Marijn Kahlmann, Floris Groenendaal
BMJ Open, 2024, vol. 14

Fellowships & Awards

Funding as Principal Investigator

1991 Leids Universitair Fonds: International Foundation for Student Research Projects: ‘Cardiac and Cerebral Doppler-sonography in Neonates’. University of California Los Angeles, Verenigde Staten (€20K)

2005 NSCK reward: Registry ‘Severe Hyperbilirubinemia in Neonates in the Netherlands.’...

External positions

Consultancy - . - Chiesi