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Hans van Geelen

Hans van Geelen

🇳🇱 Netherlands

Training and career​

  • Leadership President, IUGA (2001–2002)1

Known for​

  • Prospective urethral-pressure study across pregnancy and delivery (1982). Measured urethral pressure serially during pregnancy and postpartum, documenting reduced pressure and length parameters after vaginal delivery.2
  • Anterior repair versus Burch colposuspension study (1988). Prospectively assessed clinical and urodynamic outcomes after anterior vaginal repair and Burch colposuspension for stress incontinence.3

Footnotes​

  1. 50 Years of IUGA. Accessed October 2026. ↩

  2. van Geelen JM, Lemmens WAJG, Eskes TKAB, et al. "The urethral pressure profile in pregnancy and after delivery in healthy nulliparous women." American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 1982;144(6):636–649. doi:10.1016/0002-9378(82)90431-8 ↩

  3. van Geelen JM, Theeuwes AGM, Eskes TKAB, et al. "The clinical and urodynamic effects of anterior vaginal repair and Burch colposuspension." American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. 1988;159(1):137–144. doi:10.1016/0002-9378(88)90509-1 ↩