Koen Van Boxem

Dr. Van Boxem is anesthesiologists with a specialization in pain medicine. He works at the multidisciplinary pain center of the Hospital East-Limburg, Genk, Belgium

Since 2007 he has a scientific affiliation with the University of Maastricht, Netherlands, where he obtained his PhD in 2014 about lumbosacral radicular pain (promotor: Prof. dr. van Kleef, prof. dr. Joosten, prof dr. Van Zundert). He obtained the Fellow in Interventional Pain (FIP)certificate from the World Institute of Pain (WIP) in 2002. In 2018 he obtained the European Diploma Pain Medicine (EDPM) from the European Pain Federation (EFIC).

He is lecturer at the faculty of Pain Medicine at the University of Hasselt, Belgium. He teaches interventional pain medicine at the interuniversity course of algology and is instructor in different international cadaver workshops.

He authored more than 30 articles in PubMed indexed journals and has a h-index of 11 (scopus). He also authored 7 book chapters and several letters to the editor and publications in non-PubMed indexed journals. He is reviewer for several journals on pain medicine.

Dr Koen Van Boxem is an active member of different national and international anesthesiology and pain societies. He is frequently asked to give lectures at scientific meetings (Belgian Pain Society, World Institute of Pain, European Society of Anesthesiology, European Society of Regional Anaesthesia and pain therapy,) and to lecture for a lay public. He is vice-president of the World Institute of Pain section Benelux and since 2018 member of the educational committee of this world-wide organization. Since 2018 he is the president of the Vlaamse Anesthesiologische Vereniging voor Pijnbestrijding (VAVP) in Belgium. Since 2022 he is Co-section editor of Pain Practice and board member of the scientific committee organizing the congress of EFIC in 2023 Budapest.