Dr. Margaret Van Spronsen
General Practitioner
German Board Certified
Dr. Margaret studied medicine at the University of Leiden in the Netherlands and at the Free University of Berlin, Germany. After obtaining her medical degree in 1985, she continued her studies with postgraduate training in Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Emergency Medicine as well as Family Medicine several hospitals in Germany and in other countries like Saudi-Arabia (Jeddah).
As her husband is a diplomat in the Dutch Foreign Service for many years, Dr. Margaret worked as a General Practitioner in several countries and was treating babies, children and adults of the Expat Community for a variety of medical problems.
During her stay in Romania, she worked 5 years as a general practitioner for an increasing expat community after the revolution and set up a family medicine clinic.
Before she moved to Dubai she worked in Netherlands as an Occupational Health Doctor where she had to deal with a variety of patients with psychosomatic, social, and medical as well as family medicine problems.
She also worked in Netherlands for 12 years as a Dutch Medical Consultant and coordinator for a scientific cosmetic vigilance institute in Paris and had to deal with patients suffering form all kinds of allergic dermatological problems due to the use of various brands of cosmetics.
Dr. Margaret moved to Dubai in May 2008 when she started working as a General Practitioner in private clinic (Free Zone) with a team of European and USA board certified doctors, providing comprehensive primary healthcare.
Dr. Margaret is treating children as well as adults for all kinds of medical problems. She is dedicated to improve your health and one of her goals is to keep you in a healthy and fit condition. She believes in preventive medicine and can give you advice about general physical check-up, well woman and well man check-up, information about diet and lifestyle modification, an up to date in vaccination and travel advice.
Languages spoken - Dutch, English, German, and French.