Frans Leijten

Dr. Frans S.S. Leijten (1960) studied medicine at Utrecht University and obtained his MD in 1986. He became a neurologist and clinical neurophysiologist in 1994. In 1996 he defended his PhD thesis on critical illness polyneuropathy at Leiden University. He worked as an epileptologist at epilepsy center SEIN, then called Meer en Bosch, in Heemstede, from 1994-1996. Since then, he has been working at the University Medical Center Utrecht, where he was head of the EEG department and the monitoring unit for invasive EEG recordings. He was also chairman of the National Dutch Epilepsy Surgery Taskforce. He is a member of the European Childhood Epilepsy Surgery Group U-TASK, of the European Network for Epilepsy Research ENER and of the European Reference Network for rare and complex epilepsies EpiCare. He is a member of the Consilium Neurologicum, responsible for the education of neurology residents in the Netherlands. He has received...