prof.dr. J. (Jaap) Valk

Education

State University, Leiden
Stichting Klinisch Hoger Onderwijs Rotterdam

1957 – 1963   Neurological and psychiatric training, Valerius Clinic Amsterdam and Mental Hospital, Wolfheze
1963 – 1969   Neurologist-psychiatrist Municipal Hospital Arnhem and Mental Hospital Wolfheze
1971                Thesis at the University of Amsterdam, Promotor: Prof.dr. B.G. Ziedses des Plantes Sr.
1969 – 1973  Radiological training. Diagnostic: dpt. of Radiology at the Free University Hospital and Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam. Therapy: dept. of Radiotherapy Academic Medical Centre and Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam
1973               Head of the dpt. of Neuroradiology Valerius Clinic, Amsterdam; head of the dpt. of Neuroradiology Free University Hospital, Amsterdam
1979               Professor of Neuroradiology Free University, Amsterdam
1981 – 1996  Professor of Radiology and Neuroradiology, head of the dpt. of Radiology and Neuroradiology, Free University Hospital, Amsterdam
1996 - 1999   Professor of Radiology and Neuroradiology, dept. of Radiology, Free University Hospital
1999 – now    Neuroradiologist at MRI Centrum Amsterdam / Rotterdam
and Consultant Medical Centre Alkmaar

Books and publications

15 books on neurological, psychiatrical and radiological subjects, amongst which a book on

• Computed Tomography of Cerebral Infarctions (Raven Press, 1981),
• Basic Principles of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (Elsevier, 1985),
• Magnetic Resonance of Head, Neck and Spine (1987),
• Magnetic Resonance of Myelin, Myelination and Myelin disorders
  2nd edition 1995, 3rd edition 2005 (co-authored by Prof. Dr. M.S. van der Knaap, Springer Verlag, 1990)
• Magnetic Resonance of Dementia (with Prof. dr. F. Barkhof, Springer Verlag 2002)
• Contributed chapters to 17 other books.
• Published over 200 scientific articles in leading journals.

Postgraduate courses and invited lectures

Invited faculty member in many international courses in neuroradiology and pediatric neuroradiology: ECR, ESNR, ASPNR, ASNR, ISMRM, ESMRB, ESMRN, etc.
Invited speaker on many conferences in Europe, North and South America, Turkey, China, Saudi Arabia, Emirates.

Organisation of Conferences

Organized the following international conferences and congresses:

• in 1985 the Congress of the European Society of Neuroradiology Amsterdam,
• in 1994 the European Course of Neuroradiology (Base of the Skull) in Maastricht,
• in 1997 the Conference Course of the Dutch Society of Neuroradiology and the 5th Congress of the European Society of Magnetic Resonance in Neuropediatrics.

Membership of 15 (Dutch, European, American and other International) Scientific Organizations.
 

Member of International Editorial Boards of leading radiological journals.
  

18 Theses (Supervision of fellows working on PhD thesis), 8 of which "cum laude".

Honorary memberships and awards

• Honorary member of the Dutch Society of Special Education
• Honorary member of the International Academy of Research in Learning Disabilities
• Honorary member of the Turkish Neuroradiological Society and
• Honorary member of the Royal Belgian Radiological Society.
• Awarded the Wertheim Salomons gold medal for his scientific work, the highest honor of the Dutch Society of Radiology
• Awarded the Cornelia de Lange award of the Dutch Society of Child Neurology, and
• Gold Medal (1999) of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
• Honorary member of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA 2004)
• Wei Lun Lecture, China University of Hong Kong (2004)
• June 2006 Honored in the name of the Queen: Ridder in de Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw