Marcel Slockers

140 Curriculum Vitae From 2003, he has been training GPs. Together withAVG doctor Michiel Vermaak, a doctor for the mentally retarded, he gives training courses at the GP institute and also in several refresher courses on recognising and dealing with people with intellectual disabilities. Since 1995, he has been active in setting up a scheme for first line medical health care for undocumented people. In 2008, he was one of the initiators in promoting the accessibility of care for undocumented people, not only in the first line but all throughout the healthcare system. In 2014, Marcel was co-founder and board member of the Dutch Street Doctor Group, NSG. In 2015, a strong movement emerged from the NSG to address the uninsured epidemic. The Human Rights Board has nominated the NSG for the Human Rights People's Prize in 2018. Since 2014, he has been actively involved in international conferences of the International Street Medicine Group (ISMS) and he was co-organiser of the fourteenth International Street Medicine Symposium in Rotterdam. The articles he wrote in the Straatkrant, a newspaper sold on the streets by homeless people, have been collected in two small books in 2008 and 2011. The past few years, he has been writing blogs about his work as a street doctor for Medisch Contact, a Dutch weekly magazine for doctors published by the KNMG (Dutch federation of professional associations of doctors). He is conducting his research in good cooperation with the GGD Rotterdam (Municipal Health Service) and is strongly supported by the Department of Public Health without having an employment relationship with these organisations. Marcel has been married to Gustie Slockers-Beverwijk who worked for 32 years as a registered psychologist in her own practice in Rotterdam. They have three children together. Currently, he is working as a GP in health centre DWL-de Esch in Rotterdam. He also works as one of the street doctors in Rotterdam at CVD-Havenzicht which has a living department, a night shelter and a nursing ward for twenty people.