| Name: |
Prof. C.J. (Cor) Kalkman, MD, PhD |
| Function: |
Professor of Anesthesiology / Research Chair |
| Department: |
Anesthesiology |
| Division: |
Division of Perioperative and Emergency Care |
| E-mail address: |
C.J.Kalkman@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
Q04.2.313 |
| Correspondence: |
UMC Utrecht
P.O. Box 85500
3508 GA Utrecht
The Netherlands |
About
Professor Cor J. Kalkman (1954) studied Medicine and trained in Anesthesiology at the University of Amsterdam (AMC). His PhD thesis was on Anesthetic and Physiologcial Factors affecting Somatosensory Evoked Potentials. In 1990/91 he was Visiting Researcher in San Diego, USA, working there with Dr. John Drummond, where he developed techniques to monitor the spinal cord at risk during anesthesia and surgery (myogenic motor evoked potentials to transcranial stimulation). Thereafter, back in Amsterdam, he adapted this method to monitor spinal cord function during surgery for thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms and initiated a series of experimental studies on spinal cord ischemia, which resulted in several PhD theses by young researchers.
In 1999 he moved to the University Medical Center Utrecht, to set up an academic anesthesia research program. His current appointment is Professor of Anesthesiology and Chair of the Division of Perioperative Care and Emergency Medicine. Since 2007 he heads the UMC Utrecht Patient Safety Center. Cor Kalkman’s clinical interests are Neuroanesthesia and Patient Safety. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Neurosurgical Anesthesia & Critical Care from 2003 to 2008, serving as President in 2007
Cor Kalkman's current research interests are outcomes research and patient safety. He has supervised several large randomized clinical trials, including the AIDA study comparing the incidence of postoperative nausea and vomiting after volatile or intravenous general anesthesia, the Octopus trial that compared cognitive outcomes after 'off-pump' cardiac surgery with conventional cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass and the PINE study that investigated the effect of epidural steroids administered in the acute phase of herpes zoster to prevent postherpetic neuralgia. He is currently studying the possible adverse effects of being exposed to anesthesia at a very young age (0 -12 months) on neurocognitive development and behaviour in children.