Philip Scheltens, MD
Prof. Dr. Philip Scheltens, VU Medical Center, Amsterdam
Dr Philip Scheltens studied at the VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands, gaining his MD in 1984, and PhD (Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Alzheimer's disease) in 1993. Clinical residencies in neurosurgery at the Municipal Hospital Slotervaart, and at the Vrije Universiteit Medical Centre, Amsterdam, supported his academic development.
Dr Scheltens is Professor of Cognitive Neurology and Director of the Alzheimer Center at the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam. His main clinical and research interests are Alzheimer's disease, vascular dementia, frontotemporal dementia, magnetic resonance imaging, PET imaging and biomarkers. He is active in the field of biomarkers and clinical trials and has been the national PI for many studies, including fase 1-3 multicenter clinical trials. He founded and directs the Alzheimer Center since 2000, from which over 19 PhD theses have appeared since then.
Dr Scheltens is an active member of several societies including the Dutch Society for Neurology, the International Psychogeriatric Association, the American Academy of Neurology, the Alzheimer Imaging Consortium, the ISTAART consortium and the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology. He has been instrumental in organising several national and international conferences among which the Imaging symposium attached to ICAD. He chairs the dementia panel of the European Federation of Neurological Societies.
He is associate editor of the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry and book review editor of Alzheimer Disease and Associate Disorders. He is chief editor of the official journal of the Dutch Society of Neurology (Tijdschrift voor Neurologie en Neurochirurgie).
He is also member of the editorial boards of Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders and International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, and acts as an ad hoc reviewer of scientific articles for, amongst others, The Lancet (Neurology); Stroke; Neurology, Annals of Neurology, New England Journal of Medicine, Brain and Science.
He has authored more that 410 peer reviewed papers and > 50 book chapters. Dr Scheltens co-edited the book on Magnetic Resonance in Dementia (Springer) and co-edited the book on Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Clinical Applications (Oxford University Press). He is Treasurer of the International Society for Vascular Behavioural and Cognitive Disorders (Vas-Cog) since 2003.
