Dr. Marc Daemen

Areas of focus

• Operations on the spine: herniated discs and canal stenosis (in the back).

Education and work experience

• 1985-1991 Albert Schweitzer Atheneum, Geleen
• 1991-1997 Medicine, Maastricht University
• 1997-2001 PhD research, Maastricht University
• 2001-2003 Assistant neurosurgeon, Maastricht Academic Hospital
• 2003-2009 Neurosurgery training, Maastricht Academic Hospital
• 2009-2010 Chef de Clinique neurosurgery, Atrium Hospital Heerlen
• 2010-2016 Neurosurgeon, Medinova Clinic Arnhem
• 2016-present Neurosurgeon, Nedpsine Clinic, from 2019 under the name Bergman Clinics | Exercise. 

Membership

• Dutch Association For Neurosurgery
• Association of Independent Medical Specialists (VVMS).
• International Association for the Study of Pain
• European Association of Neurosurgical Societies

Promotion

• 2001 "Apoptosis and inflammation in experimental ischemia-reperfusion injury. Matters of life and cell death." Cum Laude, Maastricht University

Publications

• Pull ter Gunne, A.F., M.A. Daemen, P.R. Depauw (2008). "Your diagnosis?" Neurotrauma case study Dutch Journal of Neurology and Neurosurgery 109, 263-4.
• Daemen, M.A., G. Hoogland, J.M. Cijntje, G. Spincemaille (2008). "Upregulation of the GABA transporter GAT-1 in the spinal cord contributes to pain behavior in experimental neuropathy." Neurosci Lett 444: 112-5.
• Rijkers, K., J. van Aalst, E. Kurt, M.A. Daemen, E.A.M. Beuls, G. Spincemaille (2009). "Effect of spinal cord stimulation in Type I complex regional pain syndrome with 2 rare severe cutaneous manifestations." J Neurosurg 110: 274-8.

Patent

• US Patent 6,924,267 (2001). Inventors: Daemen, M.A. et al. Application of natural alpha-1 acid glycoprotein, natural alpha-1 antitrypsin for treatment of ischemia-reperfusion induced tissue damage in humans and animals.

Prices

• Maastricht University Student Prize 1994-1995 (best research done by student). Autonomic dysfunction in an animal model of neuropathic pain: sympathetic denervation or hyperactivity?
• The 1995 Dutch Hippokrates Prize of the Leiden Medical Society Hippokrates. The role of the autonomic nervous system in an animal model of reflex sympathetic (Sudeckian) dystrophy.
• National Institutes of Health Travel Grant 1999 of the National Institute of Health, Bethesda MD, United States. Delayed inflammation after renal ischemia-reperfusion: involvement of IFN-gamma, IL-12 and IL-18.
• NUTRIM/KNAW 2001 Thesis Award for Best Thesis. Apoptosis and inflammation in experimental ischemia-reperfusion. Matters of life and cell death.
• VENI Laureate NWO 2006 for the project Pinching Questions on Pain.