Markus Klimek, MD, PhD, DEAA, EDIC
Was born in Cologne / Germany on 18th October 1968.
He studied medicine and followed the residency programme in Anaesthesiology at the University Hospital Cologne. In july 2001 he started at Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, as consultant and became the Vice-Chairman of the Department in 2002 and Vice-Head of the Residency Training Program in 2007. His major fields of interest are Neuroanaesthesia, patient safety and teaching.
He is the chairman of the medical incident committee of Erasmus MC, president of the Dutch Society of Neuroanaesthesia, editor of the Dutch Anaesthesia Journal (NTvA) and ATLS-course director.
Markus Klimek has established together with his neurosurgical colleagues awake craniotomy procedures at the University Hospital Cologne in 1996 and at Erasmus MC in 2002. He has a personal experience of more than 200 procedures.