Hans Evers

  • Emeritus Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands
  • Editor-in-Chief, Human Reproduction

Professor Evers, MD PhD FRCOG, is the Past-Chairman of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, ESHRE (2001-2003) and the immediate past-chairman of the Dutch National Committee on Research in Human Beings (2004-2008). He is the Editor of Human Reproduction, and has been on the Editorial Board of Fertility & Sterility from 1992-1997, and of several other journals.

Professor Evers has (co)authored well over 250 original articles in peer-review journals. Among the honours and awards he has received are the honorary fellowship (FRCOG ad eundem) of the British Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (2002), the Established Clinician Award of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (1998), and the FOGSI Rallis Award, All Indian College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (1998). Hans Evers has obtained honorary memberships from the Middle East Fertility Society (2000), the Sociedad Argentina de Esterilidad y Fertilidad (2002), the Sociedad Argentina de Medicina Reproductiva (2007), and the Australian Gynaecologic Endoscopy Society (2008). He is a recipient of the World Infertility Award, American Infertility Association, USA (2003) and of the Order of Orange-Nassau to the Netherlands.

Hans Evers is a founding member of the World Endometriosis Society and served as its President from 2008-2011.