Dr. Jeannette Hofmeijer

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Jeannette Hofmeijer studied Medicine at Radboud University Nijmegen, where she received her master's degree in Medicine cum laude in 1998. She trained as a neurologist and intensive care physician at the University Medical Center Utrecht and obtained her PhD in Biomedical MR Imaging Spectroscopy from Utrecht University, focusing on edema formation in cerebral ischemia (2007). In 2008, she combined her role as a vascular neurologist at Rijnstate Hospital in Arnhem with a research position at the University of Twente. In 2019, she was appointed as a professor of Translational Neurophysiology. Her research interests focus on the effects of ischemia on the brain, particularly in patients with brain infarctions and cardiac arrest, conditions that are major causes of disability worldwide. Hofmeijer advocates for the integration of clinical observation and targeted experimentation to provide new insights for diagnostics and treatments. Her ongoing work involves combining clinical EEG registrations with experimental in vitro studies to explore synaptic failure in the context of cardiac arrest and brain infarction. She is the principal investigator of the Dutch-Belgian TELSTAR consortium, conducting multicenter clinical trials to test new treatments and diagnostics for comatose patients after cardiac arrest.

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