Specialization
Neurosurgery
Focus of research
Research focus lies on:
- Neurovascular Disorders (research institute Amsterdam Neuroscience), with emphasis on clinical trials in subarachnoid haemorrhage and chronic subdural hematomas.
Clinical focus lies on:
- Neurovascular disorders
- Paediatric neurosurgery
- Tumours in the brainstem and spinal cord
- Tethered cord syndrome
- Syringomyelia
Peter Vandertop is Professor and Head of the Neurosurgery Department at Amsterdam UMC. His areas of specialization include paediatric neurosurgery and vascular neurosurgery, with a particular interest in cerebral aneurysms, tethered cord syndrome, brain stem and spinal cord tumours.
Vandertop studied medicine at Utrecht University, where he was subsequently trained as a neurosurgeon under the guidance of Prof. dr. Cees A.F. Tulleken. From 1990 to 1998, he was a staff member at the Neurosurgery Department of the University Hospital Utrecht; during this period he also held a position as an extraordinary staff member at the Eemland Hospital in Amersfoort. In 1994 he successfully defended his PhD thesis ‘Experimentally-induced Autonomic Neuropathy’ (Utrecht University, prof. dr. W.H. Gispen and prof.dr. C.A.F Tulleken). In January 1999, Vandertop was appointed as chair of Neurosurgery at VU University/VUmc and from June 2005 also chair of Neurosurgery at University of Amsterdam/AMC, both nowadays Amsterdam UMC. His work extends beyond clinical practice and academia; he is actively involved with the Dutch Association of Neurosurgeons, serving as vice-chairman from 2001 to 2004 and chairman from 2004 to 2007. From 2007-2016 he was member of the Scientific Board of Hersenstichting Nederland. In 2016 he was appointed as member of the regional Medical Disciplinary Board Amsterdam.