Is er perspectief voor een revival van de radiofrequente lumbale facet blokkade in Nederland?
Past: 50 jaar RF facet lumbaal
Prof. Dr. Jan Van Zundert is anesthesiologist and chair of the Multidisciplinary Pain Centre, Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg (ZOL), Genk/Lanaken, Belgium. He is also Professor Pain Medicine at the Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
He graduated in Medicine (MD) in 1990 at the KU Leuven, Belgium and completed a 5 years’ residency in anesthesiology and reanimation at the University Hospital Antwerp (UZA). Additional specialization in Pain Medicine at the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands in 1995.
He obtained in 2005 his PhD at the Maastricht University with the thesis: “The use of pulsed radiofrequency in the treatment of chronic pain”.
In November 2024 he received the John J. Bonica Award of the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine for his demonstrated outstanding contributions to the development, teaching and practice of pain medicin.
He authored more than 150 publications in PubMed indexed journals with an Hirsh factor of 41 and is editor of the Dutch & English version of the guidelines “Evidence Based Interventional Pain Medicine According to Clinical Diagnoses. His research interests focus on clinical and translational research in interventional pain medicine. He is member of several national and international associations for Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine and president-elect of the World Institute of Pain.