Wouter Schievink

Wouter Ingmar Schievink (born 1963, Amsterdam) is a neurological surgeon noted for expertise in brain and spinal cord vascular disorders.[1][2][3][4]

Education and employment

Schievink earned his medical degree at the University of Amsterdam Medical School in 1989 and completed residency training at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota in 1997. This was followed by a cerebrovascular fellowship at the Barrow Neurologic Institute in Phoenix, Arizona. He was the Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery in the Department of Neurological Surgery at the UCI Medical Center, Irvine, California from 1998–2000.[5]

He began academic practice in neurosurgery in 1997 at the Neurosurgical Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, USA. There, he is the Director of the Microvascular Neurosurgery Program since 1998.[1]

Work

He has written and published extensively on cerebral aneurysms, cerebrovascular arterial dissections, and collagen vascular disease as related to the central nervous system.[1] Schievink is also an expert and well published author on Spontaneous Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak Syndrome.[1][6] Schievink was the lead physician on the first ever successful attempt of using fibrin glue to reverse a coma.[7]

As of July 2009, he had published some 130 papers in scientific journals. He is a manuscript reviewer for about 20 journals, including The Lancet and Neurology.[5]

References
  1. Wouter I. Schievink Director, Microvascular Neurosurgery http://www.cedars-sinai.edu/Bios---Physician/P-Z/Wouter-I-Schievink-MD.aspx
  2. New study shows people with BAV more likely to have brain aneurysms http://www.news-medical.net/news/20100504/New-study-shows-people-with-BAV-more-likely-to-have-brain-aneurysms.aspx
  3. Arteriovenous Malformation (AVM) Experts Available For Interviews http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/59270.php
  4. Natasha Richardson Died From Blow To The Head http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1607350/20090319/story.jhtml
  5. http://www.cedars-sinai.edu/Patients/Programs-and-Services/Neurosurgery/Expert-Team/Documents/SchievinkCV07-27-09r-155702.pdf
  6. Schievink, W. I.; Maya, M. M.; Louy, C.; Moser, F. G.; Tourje, J. (2008). "Diagnostic Criteria for Spontaneous Spinal CSF Leaks and Intracranial Hypotension". American Journal of Neuroradiology. 29 (5): 853–6. doi:10.3174/ajnr.A0956. PMID 18258706.
  7. "Neurosurgeons and neuroradiologists at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center injected a biosynthetic "glue" to seal off a spinal fluid leak and restore a comatose patient to consciousness. An article describing the case appears in the April 21 issue of the British medical journal, The Lancet. It is the first known report of a situation in which a patient's coma was reversed by the injection of glue, according to Wouter I. Schievink, M.D., Director of the Neurovascular Surgery Program at Cedars-Sinai and the article's lead author." http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/72338.php
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