Ingemar Merkies

Prof. dr. Ingemar S.J. Merkies, was born in Curaçao and trained to become a medical doctor at the Amsterdam University Medical Center (Free University location; cum laude) and later at the Erasmus medical center in Rotterdam to become a neurologist. He defended in 2001 (cum laude) his thesis “Evaluation of scale and measurement instruments in immune-mediated polyneuropathies” and has been active as a scientist over the last three decades. He has published > 200 papers in peered reviewed journals mainly focusing on constructing and evaluating outcome measures in neuromuscular illnesses. He is a board member of the Peripheral Nerve Society, an international organization addressing illnesses of the peripheral nervous system. He is also actively involved in elucidating the genetic background and therapeutic options of painful neuropathies in close collaboration with Prof. dr. Catharina Faber (MUMC+), Prof. Giuseppe Laura, Instituto Neurologico Carlo Besta, Milan, Italy, and Prof. Stephen Waxman, Yale University, USA. He is appointed as professor at the Faculty of Health, Life Sciences and Medicine (FHML) by the Princes Beatrix Foundation with the chair “Functional Clinimetrics in chronic illnesses, in particular in neuromuscular disorders”.