Keynote speaker
Prof. Emeritus Andrew I.R. Maas
Andrew I.R. Maas is Emeritus Professor of Neurosurgery at the Antwerp University Hospital and University of Antwerp. He is an Advisory Board member to Wings for Life, and holds positions as past Chairman of the Neurotraumatology Committee of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS), the International Neurotrauma Society, and the European Brain Injury Consortium. As a young student he was already involved in the development and implementation of the GCS. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Brain Injury Association (2016), and an Honorary Doctorate at the Burdenko Institute Moscow (2013).
Dr Maas was the Principal Investigator of the IMPACT study group (International Mission on Prognosis and Clinical Trial design in TBI), that was awarded an NIH grant (2003-2011). Together with Prof David Menon, University of Cambridge, he coordinated the large scale collaborative project CENTER-TBI: Collaborative European NeuroTrauma Effectiveness Research in TBI (www.center-tbi.eu), supported by the FP7 program of the European Union (Grant no: 602150; duration:2013-2021), which has yielded over 300 publications to date.
Key Note Lecture
The topic for the key note lecture is “Life-time lessons in the Care and Research of Traumatic Brain Injury”