About: Baziel van Engelen is full Professor of Neuromuscular diseases at the Radboud University Medical Centre Nijmegen (Radboudumc), The Netherlands. He studied Medicine at the Radboud University and Philosophy at the University of Amsterdam which he finished cum laude in 1992. He did his Neurology and Child Neurology residency at the Universities of Berlin, Germany and Nijmegen, finished his thesis “A neuro-immunological approach to intractable childhood epilepsies” in 1995, and was awarded a research fellowship in the Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation in Rochester Minnesota, USA. He became associate professor for neuromuscular diseases at the Radboudumc in 2000, and full professor in 2003. He has published over 400 articles in his research field.

Education: MD, PhD, MA

Current Position: Professor of Neuromuscular Disorders at the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre Department of Neurology, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.