Prof. Dr. Jan Van Zundert, PhD
Prof. dr. Van Zundert is anesthesiologist and since 2005 Head of the Multidisciplinary Pain Center at the Hospital Oost-Limburg (ZOL) Genk-Lanaken. He appointed in 2019 as a full professor in Pain Medicine at the Maastricht University Medical Centre, The Netherlands.
In 2005 he defended the PhD thesis at the Maastricht University: “The use of pulsed radiofrequency in the treatment of chronic pain”. He followed a 2 year postgraduate training in Health Policy and Management at the Catholic University of Leuven and in 2016 he also completed a postgraduate training in Health Law and Health Ethics at the University of Antwerp and wrote a dissertation on “The scope and enforceability of practice guidelines”
He authored 105 publications in PubMed indexed journals. He was (co)author of 42 book chapters. He holds functions in the editorial board of several journals and is the past editor of the Dutch and English version of the guidelines “Evidence based interventional pain medicine according to clinical diagnoses”. He is member of the editorial board of the “Evidence based interventional pain medicine, according to clinical diagnoses: Update 2018”. He held several functions in the board of the World Institute of Pain (WIP)
