Dennis Mook-Kanamori (1979) is a clinical epidemiologist at the Leiden University Medical Center. He completed his medical degree at the University of Leiden in 2005 and his PhD at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam in 2010. Since 2014, he is a Dutch board certified family practice physician. His research focuses mainly on genetic, metabolomic and proteomic biomarkers of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. He currently also works as a general practitioner in the Hague.