Leiden University Medical Center

Geschiedenis

The Leiden University Medical Center or LUMC, is the university hospital affiliated with Leiden University, located in Leiden, Netherlands, of which it forms the medical faculty. It resulted from the merger of the Academisch Ziekenhuis Leiden and the medical faculty of Leiden University in the late 1990s, forming an academic health science centre. Similar arrangements exist for most university hospitals in the Netherlands.
The hospital has clinical departments of all medical specialties, and acts as a tertiary referral centre for the northern part of the province of South Holland. In addition, it has a wide range of research programmes in both clinical and basic medical research, leading to a large output of scientific publications.
Special units include:
Ophthalmology
Neurosurgery
Cardiothoracic surgery
Neonatal and pediatric surgery and intensive care
Pediatric oncology
Orthopedic medicine
Biliary surgery
Rheumatology
Level I trauma center