Welcome to the userpage of Steven Fruitsmaak!

...although that is not my real name, just a copyrighted internet pseudonym. I first edited Wikipedia in April 2005 while studying medicine at the University of Leuven, Belgium.

I partially shifted my attention from Wikipedia to Wikinews after I met the friendly Wikinews community and decided that it could use more improvement than Wikipedia. I became an admin on Wikinews on October 17, 2006 and an accredited reporter on March 4, 2007. I became an admin on Wikipedia on July 26, 2008 but am no longer active as an administrator.

I graduated as a medical doctor in 2009 and started training as a specialist in internal medicine and geriatrics. I started a PhD in Biomedical Sciences (working in molecular endocrinology) in 2011 and obtained my PhD in September 2017. Later I joined as an Editorial Board member of WikiJournal of Medicine. Currently I work as a geriatrician at and a consultant in Metabolic Bone Diseases and Rare metabolic bone diseases at University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium. You can check out my Publons profile.

If you need me, you can e-mail me and I'll be glad to help out.

You can find out some of my skills in my userboxes. Finally, my motto is:

Non scholae, sed vitae discimus.

Enjoy Wikipedia!

Wikipedia Work

Some things I am particularly proud of:

• Created: Bacteriuria , Critical illness-related corticosteroid insufficiency , Exhaled nitric oxide , Human bocavirus , Iron supplements, Intercostal space, Enzyme induction and inhibition, general medical examination , Lupus headache , Remitting seronegative symmetrical synovitis with pitting edema, Renalase , Solitary pulmonary nodule , Tree of Hippocrates , Tricho-hepato-enteric syndrome .
• Expanded: Catamenial pneumothorax, Cystatin C , Gestational diabetes, Hernia, Myocardial infarction, Snoezelen, Transient synovitis .
• Non-article namespace: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Medicine-related articles), Portal:Medicine, Wikipedia:WikiProject Belgium.

Here's the full list of articles I created.

I've also uploaded quite a few images and other media:

• On Commons (check my gallery there).
• Here on the English Wikipedia: check my upload log.

Trophies

		The Medicine Barnstar
		To Stevenfruitsmaak, for numerous contributions to medical articles. Axl (talk) 20:11, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

		The Helping Hand Barnstar
		Thank you for being so helpful Maen. K. A. (talk) 14:15, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Publications

See my full publications list at ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9681-8330

Bookmarks

• Redir categories
• My edit count
• My latest articles
• Pictures from military WWII
• New medical articles
• List of Medicine-related deletion discussions
• Wikipedia:Arguments to avoid in deletion discussions

• List of country calling codes

Userboxes (More...)

This user is a physician.

PhD This user has a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Biomedical Sciences.

Activities

This user participates in WikiProject Medicine.

This user is a member of WikiProject Belgium.

11,000+ This user has made more than 11,000 contributions to Wikipedia.

This user has written or expanded 12 articles featured in the Did You Know section on the Main Page.

Wikipedia:Babel

nl Deze gebruiker heeft het Nederlands als moedertaal.

en-4 This user can contribute with a near-native level of English.

their, to, your, its, ... This users english is far from being perfect!.

fr-3 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau avancé de français.

es-2 Este usuario puede contribuir con un nivel intermedio de español.

de-1 Dieser Benutzer hat grundlegende Deutschkenntnisse.

la-1 Hic usor simplici latinitate contribuere potest.

grc-1 Ὅδε ὁ χρήστης δύναται συμβάλλεσθαι ὀλίγῃ γνώσει τῆς ἀρχαίας ἑλληνικῆς.

Other projects

This user contributes to Wikimedia Commons.