Full Professor
University of Otago, New Zealand
Dirk De Ridder, MD, PhD, is professor of Neurosurgery at University of Otago in New Zealand and co-runs a private neuromodulation clinic in Belgium. He is also associated with Manipal University in India, Trinity College in Dublin, and teaches at the University of Bonn in Germany.
He has developed “burst” and “noise” stimulation as novel stimulation designs for implants, and is currently working on multifocal or network stimulation, as well as reconditioning stimulation.
With more than 25 years of clinical and research practice he has co-edited 4 books, written 56 book chapters and more than 340 pubmed listed journal articles. This has resulted in a Google Scholar H-index of 85, with more than 33,000 citations
The Future of Smart Neuromodulation
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