| PERSONALIA | |
| Name | Pieter Leonard Kubben |
| Birthdate | 30 April 1978 in Geleen, The Netherlands |
| Location | Maastricht, The Netherlands |
| EDUCATION | |
| 2003 - now | Resident in neurosurgery (Maastricht University hospital) |
| 1996 - 2002 | Medical education, graduated as MD in 2002 (Maastricht University) |
| 1990 - 1996 | Gymnasium-ß (High School "Scholengemeenschap Sint Michiel", currently known as "Graaf Huyn College") |
| NEUROSCIENCE | |
| 2010 | "Improving interobserver agreement for volumetric assessment of brain tumor resection". Kubben PL, Postma AA, Kessels AGH, Scholtes F, Martin D, Van Overbeeke JJ, Van Santbrink H. Biomedica 2010. Aachen, Germany. 17-18 March 2010. |
| 2009 | Graduate committee member of MSc thesis "Image Distortion Analysis of the PoleStar N20" by R.M. Plessius. Technical University of Eindhoven, Department of Biomedical Image Analysis. 12 August 2009. |
| 2009 | Graduate committee member of MSc thesis "The 3D Registration of the High Field MRI and the Low Field MRI Brain Scan" by W. Wang. Technical University of Eindhoven, Department of Biomedical Image Analysis. 20 July 2009. |
| 2009 | Participant in hands-on course "Decompression and stabilisation of the spine". Wenckebach Instituut, Groningen, The Netherlands. 28-29 May 2009. |
| 2009 | Colloquium presentation "Basics of Neuroanatomy and Neurological disease". Technical University of Eindhoven, Department of Biomedical Technology. Eindhoven, The Netherlands. 16 April 2009. |
| 2009 | Television interview on L1 about intraoperative MRI. 17 March 2010. (watch video on YouTube) |
| 2009 | "Intraobserver and interobserver agreement in volumetric assessment of glioblastoma multiforme resection". Kubben PL, Postma AA, Kessels AGH, Van Santbrink H. MHeNS Research Day. Maastricht, The Netherlands. 17 March 2009. |
| 2009 | Participant in symposium "StealthVIZ with StealthDTI Module". Brussels, Belgium. 5-6 March 2010. |
| 2009 | Presentation on Intraoperative MRI. 1st LWNO-i meeting. Utrecht,The Netherlands. February 27, 2009. |
| 2009 | Participant in Boerhaave Course "Neuro-Oncologie in de Praktijk III: EEN RECIDIEF, WAT NU?". The Hague, The Netherlands. 16 January 2009. |
| 2008 | "Preliminary experience with PoleStar N20 iMRI in pediatric neuro-oncology". Cornips E, Kubben P, Ter Laak-Poort M, Granzen B, Vles J, Weber J. 36th meeting of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery (ISPN). Cape Town, South Africa. 12-16 October 2008. |
| 2008 | "Eerste ervaringen met de PoleStar N20 intraoperatieve MRI in de kinderneurooncologie" (First experiences with the PoleStar N20 intraoperative MRI in pediatric neurooncology). E Cornips, M Ter Laak-Poort, P Kubben. Najaarsvergadering NVVN, Leiden, The Netherlands. 3 October 2008. |
| 2008 | Participant in pilot study about Patient Safety |
| 2008 | Member of the Expertpanel Oncoline / Pallialine |
| 2008 | Member of hospital task group for new intranet system (Intraspect) |
| 2008 | ICH-GCP course ("Basiscursus Regelgeving en Organisatie voor Klinisch onderzoekers") |
| 2007 | "Intraoperative MRI in brain surgery" [article in Dutch]. Kubben PL, van Santbrink H, Spincemaille GH, Vandertop WP. Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2007 Dec 29;151(52):2877-82. |
| 2007 | "Combining Functional Neuronavigation and Low Field Strength Intraoperative MRI". Kubben PL. Advanced Techniques in Intraoperative MRI. Frankfurt am Main, Germany. 9-10 November 2007. |
| 2007 | "Multimodal imaging and functional neuronavigation". Kubben PL. Advanced techniques in Image Guided Surgery. Marbella, Spain. 3-5 June 2007. |
| 2007 | "Endoscope-based navigation and iMRI controlled resection of pituitary adenomas". Kubben PL, Cornips EMJ. 4th World Conference of the International Study Group on Neuroendoscopy. Paris-Versailles, France. 9-12 May 2007. |
| 2007 | "Combining functional neuronavigation and low field strength intraoperative MRI". Kubben PL, Spincemaille GHJJ. 1st International Symposium on Cognitive Neuroscience and Neurosurgery. Tübingen, Germany. 17-20 March 2007. |
| 2007 | "Low field strength intraoperative MRI with functional neuronavigation using local shielding". Kubben PL, Spincemaille GHJJ. European Congress of Radiology. Vienna, Austria. 9-13 March 2007. (poster within the IMAGINE-stand of the TUe-BMT group) |
| 2006 | Presentation about functional neuronavigation and intraoperative MRI on the Medtronic Navigation Summer Course (Sintra, Portugal) |
| 2006 | Implementation of functional neuronavigation on the Stealth Station using Brainvoyager QX |
| 2006 | Participant of the Polestar User Meeting. (Louisville (CO), USA) |
| 2005 - now | Research project on intraoperative MRI in collaboration with the department of Biomedical Image Analysis of the Technical University of Eindhoven |
| 2003 - now | Research in functional MRI, a computer aided approach to visualize the functioning of the brain. In cooperation with Brain Innovation. |
| 2000 - 2002 | “Intramedullary spinal cord glioblastomas.” Kurt E, Schijns OEMG, Kubben PL , Beuls EAM. 5th Congress of the European Association of Neuro-Oncology, Florence-Italy. 7-10 September 2002 |
| 2001 - 2003 | “Evaluation of Selective Serotonin Receptors 5-HT 2A in the Brain Using 123 I-5-I-R91150 and Single-Photon Emission Computer Tomography in Healthy Subjects.” I.H.A. Al Younis, P. Kubben , H. D'Haenen, K. Van Laere, A. Honig, A. Leentjens, A. Bossuyt, M. van Kroonenburgh. Wetenschappelijke Vergadering NVNG, Zwolle. 17 mei 2002 |
| 1999 - 2001 | “Clinical Features of 137 patients with small-cell lung cancer and a low titer of anti-Hu antibodies.” Verschuuren J, Wirtz P, De Koning P, Van den Maagdenberg A, Kubben P , Ten Velde G, Twijnstra A. Abstracts of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology, Philadelphia-USA. 5-11 May 2001. Neurology 2001;56(8)(suppl. 3): A415: P06.042 |
| INFORMATION & COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY | |
| 2010 | Interview with Observant (Maastricht University magazine) on iPhone applications. |
| 2010 | Release of 3 iPhone applications in App Store: NeuroMind, Safe Surgery and SLIC. |
| 2009 | Course participant "Flex 3: Developing Rich Internet Applications". Prisma-IT. Rotterdam, The Netherlands. 30 November - 4 December 2009. |
| 2009 - now | Webmaster and developer at DigitalNeurosurgeon.com. |
| 2008 - now | Webmaster of the NVNA website (Dutch Association for Neurosurgical Residents) |
| 2008 | A collaborative webbased framework with optimized mobile synchronisation: Upgrading to Medicine 2.0". Kubben PL. International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies). Vol 2, No 3 (2008) pp. 31-33. |
| 2008 | "A collaborative webbased framework with optimized mobile synchronisation: Upgrading to Medicine 2.0". Kubben PL. 3rd International Conference on Interactive Mobile and Computer Aided Learning. Amman, Jordan. 16-18 April 2008. |
| 2008 | Development of decision tree prototype for mobile devices on leptomeningeal metastases (in Dutch) |
| 2007 - now | Weblog on HealthDirect Neurology (in Dutch), from Reed-Business / Elsevier Healthcare. |
| 2006 | Design and development of NeuroWiki.com, a framework for collaborative mobile content distribution for web and PDA. Built in (X)HTML, PHP and MySQL. |
| 2006 | Presentation of PDA-based decision support system on Slice of Life 2006 (Lausanne, Switzerland) |
| 2005 | Additional prize on Slice of Life 2005 for development Mobile Electronic Logbook & Mobile Electronic Notebook, based on winning concept in 2004 (Portland (OR), USA) |
| 2004 | Second stage submission juror European Academic Software Awards (Le Locle and Neuchâtel, Switzerland) |
| 2004 | 1st prize (Student Software Award) on Slice of Life 2004 for PDA software submission (international conference about ICT in medical education) Presentation and poster about electronic logbook and content management system for web and PDA using Mobipocket |
| 2002 - 2004 | Cooperation with medical faculty and MedHand (Sweden) for PDA software development |
| 2002 - 2003 | Co-developer of medical cases using CAMPUS (Heidelberg, Germany) |
| 2002 | Study trip to USA (Harvard, UCLA, Stanford) and Canada (Montreal, Toronto) about E-learning (point of interest: mobile computing and wireless networking) |
| 2002 | Second stage submission juror European Academic Software Awards (Ronneby, Sweden ) |
| 2001 - now | Member of the Dutch workgroup for E-learning in medical education |
| 2001 | Development and national presentation of website "e-Neurology" (an educational website with patient cases for medical students - off line in 2004). Abstract: “Effectief ontwerp van interactieve neurologische patiëntcasuïstiek voor gebruik via het web.” Kubben PL , Grave WS de, Krom MCTFM de. 10e Geneeskundig Onderwijs Congres, Veldhoven. 22-23 november 2001. |
| 1999 - 2001 | Course instructor "Programming in Delphi", Faculty of Psychology |
| 1998 | Course "Programming in Delphi", Faculty of Psychology |
| 1997 - 1999 | CBT (Computer Based Training) instructor, Medical Faculty |
| MANAGEMENT | |
| 2008 | Introclass Entrepreneurship, Universiteit Maastricht Business School |
| 1999 - 2001 | Vice-chairman of the Faculty Council, Medical Faculty |
| 1998 - 1999 | Chairman of medical students organization MFV Reflex, currently known as MSV Pulse |