Assistant Professor - medical
Strategic program(s):
Biography
Nuclear medicine physician,
Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University Medical Centre Utrecht and Princess Maxima Centre for pediatric oncology, Utrecht (fixed term).
Specific clinical fields of interest:
Nuclear Neuro-imaging (i.e. neuro-oncology, epilepsy, neurodegeneration), Pediatric nuclear imaging, Hemato-oncology, Head and Neck oncology, Nuclear therapies (theranostics)
Research line:
Clinical neuro imaging (co-PI of multicenter study using FET PET for management of glioblastoma, local PI of multicenter TAU PET study investigating clinical value of TAU PET in neurodegeneration), national PI for an European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) initiated nuclear treatment study in Meningioma (‘LUMEN’ study). Experimental neuroimaging using neuroinflammation tracers (PI of multi-center study using neuroinflammation PET).
Leadership:
-Member and vice chair of EORTC Brain tumour group/ nuclear medicine committee.
-Member of Neuroimaging committee, European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM)
-EANM representative for the European Academy of Neurology (EAN), member of management group of EAN scientific panel on neuroimaging.
-EANM liaison person to the EAN Brain Health Summit initiative.
-Co-Chair of Dutch Society for Nuclear Medicine Neuroimaging committee.
Research aim
With nuclear theranostics we aim to develop radiopharmaceuticals to improve the disease diagnosis and therapy, including clinical translation for direct impact. Disease areas of interest are (childhood) cancer, neurology and infectious diseases.
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We aim to improve treatments and clinical outcomes of patients with gliomas and other brain tumors, by combining expertise from oncobiology, neuropsychology, imaging, surgical & clinical neurology, and palliative care.
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