Prof. Dr. Steven Olde Damink

Role in LiSyM-Cancer

• Partner in C-TIP-HCC
• contributes patient cohorts, supervises organoid technology, samples and clinical & routine laboratory parameters, and diagnoses

Expertise

• Senior physician and experimentalist with specialization in hepatobiliary surgery
• Cirrhosis organoids for functional and intervention assays

Degrees

• 2020, Advanced Medical Leadership MUMC+, Avicenna
• 2018, Advanced Mangement Programm (AMP194), Harvard Business School Boston, US
• 2014, MUMC+ Leadership Programm 2013-2014, Avicenna.
• 2005 - 2006, Fellow Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary Surgery der Klinik für Allgemein-, Viszeral- und Transplantationchirurgie, Universitätsklinikum Essen, Germany (Director: Prof. Dr. med. C.E. Broelsch).
• 2005, Registration as Surgeon (Royal Dutch Medical Association)
• 2005, PhD Dissertation (Cum Laude): Pathophysiological basis of hepatic encephalopathy (Promotores: Prof. dr. PB Soeters & Prof. Dr. PC Hayes)
• 1997 - 1999, Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Fellow and Hon. Senior House Officer, Department of Medicine, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, Head: Prof. dr. PC Hayes.
• 1995, Medical Degree, Maastricht University
• 1992, Doctoral Degree Medical School, Maastricht University
• 1992, Master of Science degree Health Sciences, Maastricht University

Professional Experience

• 2021 – present, Head Divison HepatoPancreatoBiliairy (HPB) Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Centre +, Maastricht
• 2021 – present, Head Clinical Patient Pathway HPB, Maastricht University Medical Centre +, Maastricht
• 2017 – present, Secunded Professor of Surgery, Medizinische Fakultät, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
• 2016 – present, Head of the Division of Liver & Digestive Health, School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism (NUTRIM), Maastricht University
• 2015 – present, Professor of Surgery (Personal chair), Maastricht University Medical Centre +, Chair of Translational Research Gastrointestinal Surgery
• 2012 – present, Director Research Laboratories, Department of Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Centre +, Maastricht
• 2012 – 2017, Consultant HPB Surgery & Liver Transplantation (academic post), Royal Free Hampstead NHS, and Senior Lecturer University College London, London, UK
• 2008 – present, Clinical Lead Nutrition Team, Maastricht University Medical Centre +, Maastricht
• 2005 – present, GI and HPB Surgeon Department of General Surgery, Maastricht University Medical Centre +, Maastricht
• 2010 – 2012, Consultant HPB Surgery & Liver Transplantation, Royal Free Hampstead NHS, and Senior Lecturer University College London, London, UK
• 2008 – 2012, Co-Director HPB Surgical Research Lab Institute of Hepatology, UCL, London, UK
• 2009 – 2010, Honorary Consultant Surgeon Liver Transplantation, Royal Free Hampstead NHS
• 2008 – 2010, Consultant HPB Surgery, University College London Hospital and, Senior Lecturer HPB Surgery University College London, London, UK
• 2006 – 2007, Clinical and Surgical associate der Klinik für Allgemein-, Viszeral- und Transplantationchirurgie, Universitätsklinikum Essen (Germany) (Director Prof. Dr. med. C.E. Broelsch)

Honors and Awards

• 2006, NUTRIM Research School Prize for the best PhD, period 2005-2006
• 2006, 2nd Prize best PhD 2005-2006 Dutch Society of Gastroenterology (AstraZeneca Gastrointestinale Research Award 2006)
• 2005, Altena Prize Dutch Society of Hepatology
• 2005, Elected as rising star of Gastroenterology 2005 by the ASNEMGE (Association of National European and Mediterranean Societies of Gastroenterology, Ceremony UEGW meeting Copenhagen October 2006)
• 2001, Winner Pelerin Prize, Academic Hospital Maastricht
• 1993, Winner research award, Medical School, Maastricht Universi