| Name: |
A.J.M. (Bart) van Wijck, MD, PhD |
| Function: |
Staff Anesthesiology |
| Department: |
Anesthesiology |
| Division: |
Division of Anesthesiology, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine |
| E-mail address: |
A.vanWijck@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 Albert J.M. van Wijck (Bart) studied Medicine in Utrecht and was resident in Anaesthesiology in Heerlen and Maastricht. After 6 years in private practice, he moved to the University Medical Centre Utrecht and was appointed Head of the Pain Clinic in 1998. The Pain Clinic is a tertiary pain centre that has multi-disciplinary facilities to treat all types of pain, including radiofrequency nerve blocks, spinal cord stimulation, cognitive behavioural therapy and a pain management program. He initiated a post-graduate training in Pain Medicine for anaesthesiologists. Since 2001, eight fellows completed the training.
In 2002 Albert van Wijck obtained a MSc-degree in Clinical Epidemiology. His research is focussed on pain, especially herpes zoster and postherpetic neuralgia. In 2006 he wrote his PhD thesis “postherpetic neuralgia”, describing the results of the PINE-study (Prevention by epidural Injection of postherpetic Neuralgia in the Elderly), a cost-effectiveness analysis of a single epidural injection with bupivacaine and methylprednisolone for herpes zoster and a new Bayesian approach for analysis of quality of life in trials. He is (co-)author of several papers on pain, HZ and PHN and is involved in ongoing trials.
Current projects include:
- The STIP-study to measure the effectiveness of intrathecal steroids for intractable postherpetic neuralgia (in collaboration with Mienke Rijsdijk).
- Quality of life after Herpes Zoster (http://www.impactstudie.nl)
- Evaluation of implementation of a postoperative pain service in the UMCU (in collaboration with Jacqueline van Dijk).
- Determination of clinical features, quantitative sensory testing and functional brain imaging of chronic unexplained pain (in collaboration with Jan van Gijn and Tom Snijders).
- Functional brain imaging of the influence of interoceptive awareness and autonomic function in pain processing in fibromyalgia (in collaboration with Judy Veldhuijzen).
- The role of the pterygopalatine ganglion in cluster headache and Sluder’s neuralgia (in collaboration with Karin Oomen and Sander de Ru).
- Efficacy of regional anaesthesia in patients with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (in collaboration with Maarten Mensink).
- Incidence and treatment of painful diabetic neuropathy (in collaboration with Harald Valk).