Willem-Bart Slooff, MD
Dr. Willem-Bart Slooff is a neurosurgeon at UMC Utrecht and St. Antonius Hospital, specializing in peripheral nerve surgery, spinal surgery, and general neurosurgery. He completed his medical training at Leiden University and went on to specialize in neurosurgery at VU University Medical Center (VUmc) in Amsterdam, finishing his specialist training in 1998.
Erik Walbeehm, MD PhD
Dr. Erik Walbeehm (1964) completed his general surgical training at the Sint Elisabeth Hospital in Tilburg. He then trained as a plastic surgeon at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam. He further specialized in hand surgery during a dedicated hand surgery internship in Manchester under Prof. McGrouther. In 2004, he obtained his PhD with research on nerve […]
Orlando Merced-O’Neill
Orlando Merced-O’Neill has over 30 years of experience and leadership in regenerative medicine, organ and tissue transplantation, and microsurgery. He has been continually involved with Axogen since July 2002 and joined full time in August of 2006. He is nationally and internationally recognized for his surgical innovations in tissue and organ recovery, microsurgery, and peripheral […]
Prof. Milomir Ninkovic, MD PhD
After completing his medical degree in Sarajevo, he went on to earn his PhD in reconstructive surgery from the University of Sarajevo. Subsequently, he embarked on his residency in general surgery at the University Clinical Center Sarajevo, followed by a specialized fellowship in Microsurgery at the University Clinical Center of Ljubljana. Continuing his educational journey, […]
David Krijgh, MD
After graduating as medical doctor in 2012, he worked at the department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery at St. Antonius. In 2013 he started his plastic surgeon training at the UMC Utrecht and St. Antonius and in 2018 he passed the EBOPRAS (European Board of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery) exam. He gained experience […]
Godard de Ruiter, MD PhD
Godard de Ruiter has been a neurosurgeon at HMC in The Hague since 2012. In addition to medicine, where he obtained his doctor’s degree cum laude in 2003, he also graduated in biomedical sciences. After both studies, he worked for two years in the neurosurgery department of the Mayo Clinic Rochester in the United States […]
Willem Rinkel, MD PhD
In 2020 he received his PhD degree on the thesis “The Rotterdam Diabetic Foot Study – A different view on lower extremity neuropathy”. He currently works as a principal investigator and resident physician in plastic and reconstructive surgeon training at the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery at the University Medical Center Utrecht. His […]
Prof. Ivan Ducic, MD PhD
After graduating as medical doctor in Croatia, he received his PhD in Medical Sciences and Pharmacology, concluding several years of neuroscience research at the Gerogetown University Department of Pharmacology. He then started his residency in Plastic Surgery at Georgetown University in Washington, DC after which he followed a fellowship in Peripheral Nerve Surgery at The […]
Prof. Ronald Bleys, MD PhD
Ronald L.A.W. Bleys graduated as MD in 1986 at Utrecht University. He has been working as an anatomist at the University Medical Center Utrecht since 1987. In 1995 he received his PhD degree on the thesis “Innervation of the basal cerebral arteries: pathways and densities”. Part of this research had been performed at the department […]
Prof. Henk Coert, MD PhD
Henk Coert is a plastic surgeon dedicated to the care of hand, wrist and peripheral nerve problems. After his residency, he obtained an ACGME accredited add-on qualification in hand surgery at the NYU and Mount Sinai Medical Centers in New York City. His current position is professor and chairman of the Department of Plastic Surgery […]
