Marcel Slockers

139 Curriculum Vitae Curriculum Vitae Marcel Slockers was born on April 13, 1956 in Punta Cardon in Venezuela. He is the fourth son in a family of six children. His father worked for Shell in Venezuela until Marcel had the age of four. Marcel got his VWO-diploma (pre-university education) at het Albert Einstein college in Hoogvliet, a place near Rotterdam. Initially, he was not selected to study medicine and he finished his propaedeutic year at Wageningen Agricultural University. He studied medicine in Rotterdam where he was also trained as a general practitioner (GP). As a student, he was active on several boards and also worked as a nursing assistant in various institutions. In November 1983, he started a new GPs practice in the newly built residential area DWL-The Esch in Rotterdam. From then on, he had weekly consultations in a shelter for homeless people called night shelter CVD-Havenzicht. CVD-Havenzicht was an old former school. He also had consul- tation hours in van Speyk, a day shelter for homeless people. In 1987, he initiated the establishment of health centre DWL-de Esch. Since 1990, he has been in a business partnership with general practitioner Hilde van Meer. In the early nineties, the need arose for an infirmary for homeless people. In CVD-Haven- zicht, a nursing ward for ten beds was realised with 24 hour nursing care, supported by the geriatric specialist Lijneke Jacobs. Because of his work as a street doctor, Marcel developed expertise in areas such as substance abuse, mental health problems, mental disabilities and palliative care for homeless people. Around 2003, he organises that street doctors working at the SalvationArmy, the Pauluskerk and the CVD ( a service centre), would start working with an electronic patient file set up by him and organised from the GGD. Partly on his initiative, the GGD chooses for a set-up with street doctors working for the GGD as independent entrepreneurs who can also provide independent policy advice. Since the 1980s, he has been involved as a guest lecturer at the Erasmus Medical Centre, initially in general practitioners education, later also in the Public Health department. He lectures together with homeless people, in the first and third year and at various minors in public health, infectious diseases and psychiatry.