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    Prof. Dr. Dirk De Ridder

    Member of the Innovation & Research Board of Advisors to MedVici Health

    Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Otago, New Zealand

    Prof. Dr. Dirk De Ridder advises MedVici Health as a member of the Innovation & Research Board of Advisors, contributing long-standing expertise and an established international network. The choice of physician and clinic always rests with the patient.

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    Profile summary and areas of expertise

    Dirk De Ridder is Professor of Neurosurgery in the Department of Surgery and Critical Care (Dunedin) at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Dirk De Ridder studied medicine at Ghent University (1992), obtained a PhD from the University of Antwerp and was a neurosurgeon at Antwerp University Hospital from 2000 to 2012. The research of Dirk De Ridder addresses phantom percepts such as tinnitus and chronic neuropathic pain, studied with functional imaging and with invasive and non-invasive neuromodulation. Dirk De Ridder developed burst stimulation, first described for spinal cord stimulation in 2010, and is a co-editor of the Textbook of Tinnitus (Springer).

    • Neuromodulation
    • Tinnitus research
    • Pain research

    Clinical work and institutions

    1. University of Otago (opens the institution's website)

      Department of Surgery and Critical Care (Dunedin), Faculty of Medicine

      • since 2013Professor of Neurosurgery

    2. Universitair Ziekenhuis Antwerpen (UZA) (opens the institution's website)

      Department of Neurosurgery · BRAI²N

      • 2000–2012Neurosurgeon

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    Scientific publications (9)

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    Disclosure: According to his own disclosure, Dirk De Ridder acts as a speaker and consultant for Abbott; the intellectual property rights to burst stimulation are licensed to Abbott.

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