Prof. Frederik Barkhof

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Prof. Frederik Barkhof

Frederik Barkhof received his MD from VU University, Amsterdam (NL) in 1988 and defended his PhD thesis in 1992, for which he received the Philips Prize for Radiology (1992) and the Lucien Appel Prize for Neuroradiology (1994). Since 2001 he serves as a full Professor in Neuroradiology at the department of Radiology & Nuclear Medicine at Amsterdam UMC. In 2015 he was appointed as full Professor of Neuroradiology at the institute of Neurology and the Hawkes Centre in the faculty of Engineering at UCL in London (UK) to translate novel imaging techniques. In 2018 he received the John Dystel Prize by the AAN and NMSS for his unique contributions to MS research. In 2019, he became a senior fellow of the ISMRM and in 2021 he received their Gold Medal.

Prof. Barkhof was the chairman of the Dutch Society of Neuroradiology and is the co-founder and past president of the MAGNIMS study group (www.magnims.eu). He is leading the Queen Square MS Centre Trial Unit, involved in analysis of multicenter drug trials. He serves on the Editorial boards of Radiology and Multiple Sclerosis Journal and is the associate editor for neuroimaging for Neurology. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Radiology.