Kees Hugo Polderman MD, PhD

Dr. Kees Hugo Polderman, MD, Ph.D. studied medicine at the University of Amsterdam and trained as an internist and subsequently as an intensivist at the Free University Hospital in Amsterdam. His Ph.D. thesis, entitled “Interac­ti­ons of en­do­c­r­ine sys­t­ems with ca­r­di­o­vas­cular sig­nif­ica­nce”, was completed in 1993. He obtained a European diploma in intensive care medicine in 2000. He has previously worked at the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam and at the Utrecht University Medical Center in the Netherlands. He moved to the United States in August 2009 to become the medical director of Neurocritical care services at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

He is a member of the board of directors of the Neurocritical Care Society. He has co-authored 121 international (85 PubMed cited) and 62 national (Dutch) publications. His main lines of research are use of therapeutic hypothermia for neuroprotection and cardioprotection, systemic and cardiovascular consequences of neurological injuries, and quality assessment in the ICU.