Diederik van Dijk

prof. dr.

    1995 …2024

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    Biography

    Diederik van Dijk is an epidemiologist and anaesthesiologist-intensivist. His research focuses on outcomes after cardiac surgery and intensive care admission, and he has multiple publications in NEJM, JAMA, Circulation and Anesthesiology. In the Octopus trial, he demonstrated that cognitive decline may also occur after cardiac surgery without heartlung-machine. Another multicenter trial supervised by Van Dijk failed to show any benefits of epidural anesthesia in cardiac surgery patients. A more recent trial in 4,500 cardiac surgery patients, evaluating prophylactic intraoperative dexamethasone showed multiple benefits of this drug in patients younger than 75 yrs of age. In 2012, Van Dijk was appointed professor of Intensive Care medicine. Since 2021, he is chair of the department of intensive care at the UMC Utrecht.

    Side activities

    Dutch Society of Intensive Care (NVIC), board member 2013 - 2019

    European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM), national representative of the Netherlands 2013 - 2016

    Netherlands Journal of Critical Care, section editor cardiothoracic care

    Deputy chair Ethics section of the European Society of Intensive Care

    Chair of the Dutch working group for a guideline for post ICU care

    Fellowship & awards

    Clinical Scholar Research Award, provided by the International Anesthesia Research Society

    Personal grant for cardiothoracic fellowship at the Royal Infirmary Edinburgh, provided by the European Association of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesiologists

    Mid-career Grant, provided by the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists

    External positions

    kerngroeplid werkgroep Passende Zorg - overleg over bevorderen van passende IC zorg in Nederland - NVIC

    1 Sept 202431 Dec 3999

    voorzitter richtlijncommissie Passende IC Zorg - voorzitten van de werkgroep die een landelijke richtlijn Passende Zorg zal maken - NVIC

    1 Sept 202431 Dec 3999

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