Steven W.m. Olde Damink MD, PhD, MSc

Steven WM Olde Damink obtained a Master of Science degree in Health Science and a Medical Degree at Maastricht University. His PhD degree in Medicine focused on metabolic changes in patients with liver failure and was performed between Maastricht University Medical Centre (MUMC) and the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, UK. After his board certification as General Surgeon, he became a staff member at MUMC. During the first year, the Hendrik Casimir-Karl Ziegler Research Prize of the Royal Dutch Academy of Science allowed him to work as fellow Hepato-Pancreatic-Biliary Surgery at Essen University, Germany.

In 2008 he got the opportunity to work half of his time as a Consultant Surgeon HPB Surgery at University College Hospital London. This position was later transformed to the Royal Free Hospital, both teaching hospitals of University College London where he was appointed as Senior Lecturer. In 2012 he became head of the Research Department of Surgery at the MUMC and stopped clinical work in London, but kept his academic post at UCL until today. At MUMC he initiated together with Prof Ron Heeren and Prof Peter Peters the Maastricht Multimodal Molecular Imaging Institute (M4I) where he serves as clinical liaison. In 2015 he was appointed as Professor of Surgery on the chair of Translational Research Gastrointestinal Surgery and became Research Line leader at the Research School Nutrition & Translational Research in Metabolism (NUTRIM).

His clinical work has always been focused on Hepato-Pancreatic-Biliary Surgery and the care for the (metabolically) compromised surgical patient. His key motivation is to improve patient outcomes by transferring the knowledge acquired in basic research into everyday clinical practice, and vice-versa to translate the clinical questions into basic research questions.