About R. (Ruben) Dammers, PhD
Introduction
My main clinical and research interests are in paediatric neurosurgery, skull base surgery, neurooncology, and cerebrovascular neurosurgery.
At the Erasmus MC Stroke Center I am (co)director of annual courses on skull base surgery and microvascular techniques.
At the Erasmus MC Stroke Center I am (co)director of annual courses on skull base surgery and microvascular techniques.
Education and career
- Medical degree: Maastricht University, the Netherlands, 2001.
- PhD: Maastricht University, the Netherlands, 2003 (Non-invasive assessment of arterial remodelling in arteriovenous fistulas for hemodialysis).
- Neurosurgical training: Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 2003-2009
- Research fellow at UAMS, Little Rock, AR, USA, 2007.
- Clinical fellow at Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, the Netherlands 2009-2011.
publications
Publications on Pubmed
research groups
- CONTRAST (Collaboration for New Treatments of Acute Stroke)
- DECSA (Dexamethasone (DXM) therapy in symptomatic patients with chronic subdural hematoma)
- DIST (Dutch Intracerebral Hemorrhage Surgery Trial)
- DSHR (Dutch Subdural Hematoma Research Group)
