Andy Hoepelman


Ilja Mohandas "Andy" Hoepelman is a Dutch former Olympic water polo player and current professor in Medicine, subspecialty Infectious Diseases. He has more than 500 peer reviewed articles on his name. He won an Olympic bronze medal at the 1976 Montreal Olympics as part of the Dutch men's team. He is with his Masters team HZC de Robben European champion in Istanbul, Budapest, Rijeka and Kranj. In 2015 the team became World Champion in Kazan. From 2012-2016 he was a member of the LEN TWPC.Since 2017 he is a member of the FINA TWPC, where his interest is in modernizing Waterpolo rules, education of referees and Beach Waterpolo.
He was cofounder and chairman of the regional Waterpolo training Centre "Talent Centraal" until 2015 when TC was discontinued. In 2018 he founded together with others a regional Waterpolo training center where he currently serves as chairman.Since July 2020 he is chairmen of the Dutch Waterpolo club UZSC, 6 times champion in the Netherlands since 2014.

Life

Hoepelman obtained an MD and PhD from Utrecht University, writing a dissertation entitled Iron and Infection. He worked at Rockefeller University in New York City and was head of the Department of Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases at the University Medical Center until 2017. From that time on he is Head of the division of Infectious Diseases at the UMC, Utrecht. More than 50 students finished there thesis under his supervision.. He has authored more than 500 peer reviewed publications
His sons Ruben Hoepelman and Benjamin Hoepelman have followed their father in playing water polo at an international level, his son David is a specialist in informatics.