Bert Joosten - What happens in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit? Translational research on effects and treatment of procedural pain.

 

Biography:

• A Full professor - Personal Chair Anesthesiology and Pain Management, School for Mental Health and Neuroscience, University of Maastricht, the Netherlands.
• Study Biology at University of Nijmegen.
• PhD at University of Nijmegen (Fac. Mathematics and Natural Science): Thesis :” Axonal growth and guidance during the formation of the pyramidal tract”.
• Post-doctoral Research-Associate. Dept. of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Georgetown University Washington DC USA
• Assistant Prof. and PI CNS Regeneration-Research at the Rudolf Magnus Institute for Neurosciences, UMC-Utrecht
• 2003: PI and Head Research Anaesthesiology, Dept. Anaesthesiology and Pain management MUMC+  and UM Maastricht and as of  2012 : Professor in “Experimental Anaesthesiology and Pain Management”, MUMC+ and UM

 
Researchfields: Neuropathic Pain; Interventional Pain Treatment; Neuromodulation; Inflammatory pain; Developmental Neuroscience; Repair and injured CNS; Drug Delivery; Biomaterials; Chronification of  Pain, Genetics of Pain.

Author and co-author of > 200 scientific publications in peer reviewed Journals
H-factor: 42

 

Abstract:
The main aim of the pain research team (integrated into Division 3 MHeNs) is to understand mechanisms underlying chronic and/or chronification of pain during development and in adult. It is therefore that we established a translational research-line with the Sophia Children’s Hospital Erasmus University Rotterdam as of 2011.  The focus of this research-line is to understand what and how the impact of procedural pain in the NICU affects the neonate and induces long-term changes on pain threshold, anxiety as well as on stress in later life. Based on a well-established and reproducible translational animal model we study the effect of experimental pharmacological interventions on acute and long lasting changes and discuss (possible) impact for NICU and clinic.