| Name: |
J.M. (Stefan) Dieleman, MD |
| Function: |
PhD student and resident in Anesthesiology |
| Department: |
Anesthesiology |
| Division: |
Division of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine |
| E-mail address: |
S.Dieleman@umcutrecht.nl |
| Phone number: |
+31 (0) 88 75 59677 |
| Fax number: |
+31 (0) 30 254 1828 |
| Visiting address: |
UMC Utrecht
Heidelberglaan 100
3584 CX Utrecht
The Netherlands |
| Correspondence: |
UMC Utrecht
P.O. Box 85500
Mail stop Q04.2.313
3508 GA Utrecht
The Netherlands |
About
Stefan Dieleman is a PhD student and anesthesiologist in training (MD-PhD program). Before he started this program, he has worked as a student on an animal (rat) model of cardiopulmonary bypass, together with Fellery de Lange. This project has resulted in several publications in The British Journal of Anaesthesia, Journal of Neuroscience Methods and Life Sciences. In 2008, he graduated as an Epidemiologist.
Interest and focus
The core theme of Stefan’s research projects concerns on outcomes in cardiac anesthesia. Althought his first research project was predominantly pre-clinical, his current research projects have their focus on clinical outcomes in cardiac surgical patients.
Current projects
Stefan’s PhD project concerns the DExamethasone for Cardiac Surgery trial (DECS trial), a multicenter trial evaluating the effect of a single intraoperative injection of dexamethasone on major adverse events after cardiac surgery. Between 2007 and 2011, a total of 4500 patients will be enrolled in 9 centres for cardiac surgery in The Netherlands. The DECS trial is funded by the Netherlands Heart Foundation and ZonMW.
Besides the DECS trial, Stefan is also responsible for the conduct of the iPEGASUS-Utrecht project: a study which form part of the International PErioperative Genetics And Safety oUtcomes Study (iPEGASUS), coordinated by Duke University Medical Center (Durham, NC, USA). The goal of iPEGASUS is to create a global biorepository with data and specimens from a large number of cardiac surgical patients, to aid future research to evaluate the association of genetic factors with perioperative outcomes.