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    Carmen Vleggeert-Lankamp, MD MSc PhD

    Neurosurgeon
    Leiden University Medical Centre

    Carmen Vleggeert-Lankamp, MD, MSc, PhD is a Neurosurgeon and Spinal Surgeon in Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, the Netherlands. She is the director of the Spine research group and focuses on evaluation of Spine care and on fundamental research in radiculopathy. She is currently the President of the board of CSRS Europe, and of the Netherlands Society for Neurosurgery. She is a member of the board of Eurospine, responsible for the Research Committee.
    She was born in the Netherlands in 1969. She received her MSc grade in Pharmacy in 1995 and afterwards graduated from medical school at the University of Utrecht in 1998. She did her residency in Neurosurgery at the Leiden University Medical Centre from 1998-2006. In 2006 she obtained her PhD degree on evaluation of peripheral nerve regeneration. In 2006 she started to specialize in spine surgery and changed her research focus to spine. Currently she coordinates a research group with numerous PhD students that work on research themes varying from cervical to lumbar and from degenerative to congenital spine diseases. She is actively involved in research concerning the etiology of sciatica and stenosis. In cooperation with Technical University Delft, Erasmus University and the Computational Neuroscience Outcome Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, she is integrating machine learning algorithms into spine care. She and her research group received several research awards. She is specialized in spine surgery with special interest for craniocervical deformities and reconstruction, and achondroplasia.
    She has a long list of scientific publications and invited guest lectures. She is actively involved in spinal teaching, she is supervising multiple PhD trajectories and is involved in spine training programs of the EANS, CSRS and Eurospine.


     

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