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Curriculum vitae
Wouter Anton Moojen was born on the 27th of June, 1983 in Utrecht, The Netherlands. He grew up in the village Groenekan. He obtained his Athenaeum diploma (pre-university diploma) cum laude in Utrecht 2001. In 2001 he started medical school at the Utrecht University and received his medical doctor degree in 2007. In the same year he started working as a house officer at the University Medical Center Utrecht (dr. J.W. Berkelbach van der Sprenkel). His interests in vascular/skull base surgery and spine surgery (dr. G.J. Amelink and Professor F.C. Öner) started. After six months he started at the Leiden University Medical Center. In the summer of 2008 he visited Toronto Western Hospital (Professor Fehlings) where his interest for spine research was triggered. In December 2008 his neurosurgery residency program (J.HC. Voormolen and Professor W.C. Peul) commenced. The patient inclusion for Felix Trial in Leiden University Medical Center and the Medical Center Haaglanden started in 2009. In 2009 he was trained in neurology at the Leiden University Medical Center (Professor R.A.C. Roos), in radiology at the Leiden University Medical Center (Professor M.A. van Buchem), in intensive care medicine (Professor E. de Jonge), pathology (dr. S.G. van Duinen), and in thoracic surgery (Professor R.J.M. Klautz). In 2011 and in 2013 he worked in total for 15 months at the neurosurgical departments in the Medical Center Haaglanden (R. Walchenbach) in The Hague and for three months in Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam (Professor C.M.F. Dirven). In 2012 he finished his epidemiology training (MSc) at the VU University Amsterdam. In 2014 he visited two neurosurgical centers abroad as part of a travelling fellowship: Helsinki (Professor J. Hernesniemi) in July and August, and Berlin (Professor P. Vajkoczy) in September and October. He will finish his neurosurgery residency at the end of 2014. His areas of interest in neurosurgery are spine, vascular and skull-base surgery.
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