| Name: |
H.J. (Hans) Gerbershagen, MD, PhD |
| Function: |
Staff Anesthesiology |
| Department: |
Anesthesiology |
| Division: |
Division of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine |
| E-mail address: |
H.J.Gerbershagen-2@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 Hans Jürgen Gerbershagen (1975) studied medicine at the University of Cologne (Germany), Manchester (England), and Capetown (South Africa) and received his M.D. degree in 2002. He joined the anesthesiology and intensive care residency program at the department of Anaesthesiology and Surgical Intensive Care at the University of Cologne. He did a fellowship in pain management and specialized in palliative care. In 2009 he past the two-part European examination in anaesthesiology and intensive care and received the title of Diplomat of the European Society of Anaesthesiology (DESA). In 2009 he joined the staff of the Anaesthesiology Department at the UMC Utrecht. He received his PhD degree from the University of Cologne in 2011 (Topic of his PhD thesis: Analysis of risk factors for the development of acute and chronic postoperative pain).
Interest and Focus
Hans Gerbershagen’s main research interest is the study of perioperative and posttraumatic pain. He has performed several prospective studies to analyze risk factors for acute and chronic postoperative pain. He is deeply involved in the statistical analysis of the QUIPS registry (Quality Improvement of Postoperative Pain Treatment). This registry compares quality outcome measures and other influencing factors of postoperative pain treatment. The registry includes some 115,000 patient data sets that have been collected by 120 hospitals so far.
As an advisory board member of the EU-funded international PainOut project (Improvement in Postoperative Pain Outcome) he has contributed to the development of outcome and risk questionnaires. Furthermore, he is engaged in the developing of surgical procedure-specific pain outcomes on basis of PainOut and QUIPS data to generate specific pain treatment recommendations.