Ferdy is a resident in internal medicine with an interest in endocrinology. He has studied medicine in Rotterdam and has finished his PhD in the Erasmus Medical Center, focusing on understanding pathophysiology and clinical presentation of patients with rare thyroid hormone signalling diseases, particularly MCT8 deficiency, and on developing and evaluating novel therapies for these rare diseases. He is getting enthusiastic about enhancing understanding of complex pathophysiology and applying this to help patients in a bench to bedside translational manner.