Andrew I. R. Maas MD, PhD

Andrew I.R. Maas is a Professor and Chairman of the department of Neurosurgery at the Antwerp University Hospital and University of Antwerp. He holds positions as the Past President of the International Neurotrauma Society, Co-Chairman of the European Brain Injury Consortium, and member of the Neurotraumatology Committee of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies.
Dr. Maas was the principal investigator of the IMPACT study group (International Mission on Prognosis and Clinical Trial Design in TBI), which was awarded an NIH grant (2003-2011) on the research project: “Clinical Trial Design and Analysis in Traumatic Brain Injury”. The IMPACT project consisted of a collaborative venture between the Erasmus University Rotterdam, Antwerp University Hospital, the University of Edinburgh, and the Medical College of Virginia, Richmond USA. The IMPACT studies have resulted in over 55 publications and recommendations for improved trial design, have set the standard for prognostic analysis in TBI, and proposed formats for standardization of data collection in TBI studies. Dr. Maas has also received funding from the Flemish Institute for Science and Technology for a project concerning Individualized Targeted Management in Neurocritical care (2009-2011).