Frank Huygen MD, PhD, FIPP, FFPMCAI (hon)

Prof. dr. Frank Huygen is a Professor in Anesthesiology, especially Pain Medicine at the Erasmus MC University Hospital of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. He is the director of the Centre of Pain Medicine, a multidisciplinary pain clinic specializing in acute, chronic benign and oncologic pain and palliative care. Frank Huygen is the principal investigator of the Academic Centre of Pain Medicine (Erasmus MC ACE).

Professor Huygen graduated as a fellow of interventional pain practice and is certified in complex invasive pain treatment modalities like neuromodulation and epiduroscopy. He is especially interested in CRPS and has been involved in several research lines and theses focusing especially on CRPS, neuropathic, and oncologic pain. He is the past elected president of the Dutch Anaesthesia Pain Society and is chairman of a national multidisciplinary guideline committee on mechanical low back pain.