Jan Van Zundert

Jan Van Zundert is anesthesiologist, since 2005 head of the Multidisciplinary Pain Centre of the Hospital Oost Limburg, Belgium and appointed in 2019 as a full professor in Pain Medicine at the Maastricht University Medical Centre, The Netherlands

He obtained in 1990 the doctoral degree in Medicine at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, completed a 5 years residency in anesthesiology and reanimation at the University hospital Antwerp and specialized in pain medicine at the Radboud University Nijmegen. In 2005 he defended the PhD thesis at the Maastricht University: “The use of pulsed radiofrequency in the treatment of chronic pain”. He followed a 2 postgraduate training in Health Policy and Management at the Catholic University of Leuven and in 2016 he also completed a postgraduate training in Health Law and Health Ethics at the University of Antwerp and wrote a dissertation on “The scope and enforceability of practice guidelines”

He authored almost 100 publications in PubMed indexed journals. He was (co)author of 38 book chapters. He holds functions in the editorial board of several journals and is the past editor of the Dutch and English version of the guidelines “Evidence based interventional pain medicine according to clinical diagnoses”. He is member of the editorial board of the “Evidence based interventional pain medicine, according to clinical diagnoses: Update 2018”

He held several functions in the board of the World Institute of Pain (WIP)