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Koen Van Boxem

Koen Van Boxem, MD, FIPP, EDPM, PhD is an Anesthesiologist from Belgium. He had extensive training in pain therapy, and in 2002 he became a Fellow Interventional Pain Practice (FIPP). In 2014 he completed his PhD in Lumbosacral radicular pain at University Maastricht in The Netherlands. Dr Van Boxem also has a
European Diploma Pain Medicine (EFIC).

Currently he is President of Vlaamse Anesthesiologische Vereniging voor Pijnbestrijding (VAVP),  Member Educational Committee of World Institute of Pain, and Vice-President of the Benelux Section of World Institute of Pain.

Dr. Van Boxem has been involved in 22 articles on pain (Hirsch factor 7), his lectures mainly focus on radicular pain (pathophysiology, pulsed radiofrequency, epidural corticosteroid injections) and is involved in evidence-based guideline development of pain therapy.