Johannes Ernest Everard "Jan" Keunen was born on 2 October 1954 and is a Dutch ophthalmologist, professor, and politician.
18 Facts About Jan Keunen
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Jan Keunen served as a member of the Senate between 2020 and 2023.
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Jan Keunen was born in 1954 in the Dutch city of Roermond to Rudy Jan Keunen and Beatrice Finaly.
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Jan Keunen's father was the president of an Eindhoven leather tannery, which was founded by his great-grandfather in 1828, while his mother worked as a nurse.
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Jan Keunen grew up with two sisters and one brother, and he attended the Eindhoven secondary school Scholengemeenschap Augustinianum from 1967 to 1972 at HBS-B level.
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Jan Keunen subsequently studied medicine at Radboud University Nijmegen, graduating in 1979, and served as a reservist at the Utrecht military hospital Dr A Mathijsen.
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Jan Keunen became a junior staff member there in 1985, when he started studying at Utrecht University.
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Jan Keunen moved to the Academic Hospital Utrecht in 1989, when the Ooglijdersgasthuis became part of that hospital.
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Jan Keunen took a job as ophthalmology department head and professor at the Leiden University Medical Center in 1995.
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Jan Keunen continued working at the Leiden hospital until February 2005.
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Jan Keunen's department was the first in the Netherlands to use a microsecond laser in 2007 and the Pascal Photocoagulator in 2008.
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Jan Keunen cut back his hours after his wife's death in 2014 and became acting department head.
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Jan Keunen retired from the Radboud UMC in 2019 with his farewell lecture being planned for June 2020.
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Jan Keunen has been a member of the VVD since about 1990 and a member of the party's health care network since the early 2000s.
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Jan Keunen remained its chair until January 2019, and he is still a board member of VVD Rijk van Nijmegen.
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Jan Keunen was installed as senator on 26 October 2020 after Roel Wever had vacated his seat to accept the position of mayor of Heerlen.
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Jan Keunen did not run for re-election in May 2023, and his term ended on 13 June.
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Jan Keunen married divorce attorney Florence Lohuis on 14 April 1989 in Montfoort.