Diederik W. J. Dippel PhD, MSc

Diederik WJ Dippel is a vascular neurologist and professor of acute treatment of neurovascular diseases. He wrote a PhD thesis on decision analysis in the clinical neurosciences. He has (co-) authored more than 300 scientific papers on stroke diagnosis and treatment. He was PI of several investigator-driven multicenter randomized clinical trials including the game-changing MR CLEAN (Multicenter Randomized Clinical trial of Endovascular treatment for acute ischemic stroke in the Netherlands). He is now Research Leader of CONTRAST, the Collaboration for New Treatments for Acute Stroke, a large private-public funded body uniting clinical and experimental academic researchers in the Netherlands.