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University Medical Center Groningen

prof. dr. A.P. (André) Wolff


Prof. Dr. André P. Wolff, MD,PhD

Date of birth:                2-12-1959, Eindhoven

 

 

Anaesthesiology, Pain and Palliative Medicine

In 2015 Wolff started as Head of the Pain Centre at the department of Anaesthesiology in the University Medical Centre Groningen In February 2016, Wolff was appointed professor in Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University of Groningen and the University Medical Centre Groningen. Wolff joined the UMCG Palliative Team, the UMCG Spine Centre and the UMCG Pelvic Pain Centre. In 2019 Wolff became the medical head of the UMCG Pain Centre. After graduation in medicine at the Radboud University in Nijmegen (Radboud UMC) André Wolff finished his specialization in anaesthesiology also at the RadboudUMC in 1987. He started working in the field of anaesthesiology, pain- and palliative care in the St Anna Hospital (Oss), Later called Bernhoven hospital (now in Uden) in 2000 after fusion with the St Joseph Hospital in Veghel. He experienced in pain management and all (invasive) pain treatment techniques; the complex ones included, such as neuromodulation and epiduroscopy. Wolff became chairman of the multidisciplinary Regional Pain Centre North East Brabant, organized the pain treatment activities into a professional organisation and started patient care quality projects such as “the Out Patient Clinic Carrousel” in order to prevent the chronification of pain syndromes in a multidisciplinary way. This project was financially supported by the Dutch Order of Medical Specialists. In 2002 and 2003 he also worked at the Pain Treatment Centre in the University Medical Centre Utrecht for one day a week.

In 2003 he changed position to the dept. of Anaesthesiology, Pain and Palliative Medicine (APPM) at the RadboudUMC. He continued his activities in anaesthesiology, pain treatment and palliative care and introduced Epidurosopy again for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes as quality project, but now in Nijmegen.

From 2006-2012 Wolff was clinical director of the RadboudUMC department of Anaesthesiology and in 2007 he also became clinical director in the department of Operating Theatres.

 1987               Graduation Medicine at the Radboud University Nijmegen

1987 - 1992 Specialization in Anaesthesiology at the RadboudUMC Nijmegen, Chairman Prof. dr L.H.D.J. Booij

1992 - 2000 St Anna Hospital in Oss, dept. of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine

2000 - 2003  Bernhoven Hospital Oss and Veghel, dept. of Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine

1996-2003    Chairman and co-ordinator of the multidisciplinary Regional Pain Centre in North East Brabant in Oss; Initiator and responsible for development of this Pain Centre into a professional organization

1997 - 2007  Part time working for Pain Knowledge Centre, RadboudUMC

2002 - 2003  Part time for Pain Treatment Centre University Medical Centre Utrecht

2003 - 2015              Staff member RadboudUMC dept. of Anaesthesiology, Pain and Palliative Medicine (APPM), Chairman Prof. dr G.J. Scheffer

2003 - 2008  Staff member Pain Treatment Centre RadboudUMC

2006 - 2008  Head Pain Knowledge Centre RadboudUMC

2006 - 2015  Clinical Director dept of Operating Theatres RadboudUMC

2006 - 2012  Clinical Director dept of Anaesthesiology, Pain- and Palliative Medicine, RadboudUMC

2015 -                        Head Anaesthesiology Pain Centre University Medical Centre Groningen (UMC Groningen)

2016 -             Professor in Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine at University of Groningen and University Medical Centre Groningen

2017 -             Head UMCG Pelvic Pain Centre

2018 - 2019   Interim Head UMCG Spine Centre

2019 -             Head UMCG Pain Centre (Collaboration Anaesthesiology Pain, Pelvic Pain, Spinal Pain, Pain Rehabilitation centres)

 

Relevant professional activities

1992               Radiology hygiene 4A course, Cohen institute Leiden

1994               Implementation of neuromodulation techniques for chronic pain patients in Bernhoven Hospital Oss/Veghel

1995 - 1996  National Working Group for guideline development invasive pain treatment for low back pain with and without radiation, CBO, Dutch Quality Centre

1997 - 2003  Organizer annual symposium for anaesthesiologist-pain physicians, RadboudUMC

1999 - 2003 Project leader development out clinic patient program on the prevention of chronic pain in multidisciplinary pain centre North-east Brabant, funded by the “Dutch Order of Medical Specialists”

2002               Introduction of Spinal Endoscopic Techniques for chronic failed back surgery patients in Bernhoven Hospital Oss/Veghel

2000 - 2002  National Working Group for guideline development on chronic non-specific low back pain, CBO, Dutch Quality Centre

2003 - 2007  Board member Section Pain of the Dutch Society of Anesthesiologists (NVA)

2004               Introduction of Spinal Endoscopic Techniques for chronic pain patients with failed back surgery as a top-clinical activity in RadboudUMC

2004 - 2007  Representative of the Dutch Society of Anesthesiologists in the National Platform for Pain and Pain Medicine

2004 - 2006  Board member in Co-operation Platform of Pain Disciplines (SWVP)

2004               Co-founder and board member (secretary) of the Dutch Working Group Spinal Endoscopic Technics (LANSET)

2006 - 2008  Head Pain Knowledge Centre RadboudUMC Nijmegen

2006 - 2008 Board member of the Scientific Advisory Council National Pain Fund

2005 - 2007  Board member of the Dutch Society for the Study of Pain (NVBP)

2007               Chairman and organization symposium on Pain Data Registration and Documentation, Dutch Pain Knowledge Centres

2007 - 2008  Chairman organizing committee 10th Dutch-Belgium Pain Congress

2007 – 2015 Chairman Committee Quality Policy of the Dutch Society of Anaesthesiology

2009 - 2015  RadboudUMC Working group Acute Hipfractures

2013 -            Editorial Board of World Journal of Anaesthesiology

2015 -            Steering Committee Implementation of Chronic Pain Standard in the Northern part of the Netherlands

2016 -            Scientific Advisory Counsil National Health Deal Chronic Pain

2016               29th of November: Oration for professorship Anaesthesiology and Pain Medicine University of Groningen: “Other light on chronic pain: no symptom but disease!”

2016 -            National steering group National Health Deal Chronic Pain

2017 - 2018  Working committee development Network indicator Standard of Care Chronic Pain

2018 -            Working committee development implementation plan Standard of Care Chronic Pain

2019 -            Chairman Health Deal Chronic Pain national steering group

2020 -            Chairman Scientific Committee Anaesthesiology UMCG

2020 -            Chairman development Dutch Guideline Organisation of Chronic Pain Care (Leidraad )

2020 -            Member Dutch Guideline development Pain rehabilitation

2020 -            Topic Editor Journal of Clinical Medicine

2021 -            Member Dutch Society of Anaesthesiology (NVA) Working group Knowledge Agenda

Patient safety and Quality of care

From  2007 until 2012 Wolff was chairman of the national multidisciplinary working groups for guideline development to improve safety and efficacy of the perioperatieve process in the Dutch hospitals. He also became the chairman committee Quality of the Dutch Society of Anaesthesiology (NVA). In 2010 he started a cooperation with IQHealthcare, specialized in Implementation science, to study the effects on adherence and patient outcomes of tailored implementation strategies of these Dutch guidelines. This was the basis for a research group that started at that time: Evidence Based Perioperative Patient Safety. Varoius PhD students elaborated under his supervision research on implementation activities and instruments to identify and improve perioperatieve safety. Wolff got active in various organizations and hospital committees that are involved in patient safety and quality of care. As a patient safety officer for the RadboudUMC he developed and lead a program to improve patient safety and professional safety culture in the RadboudUMC (STAP: Standaardisatie-Teamwork-Aanspreken-Patient gerichtheid). Wolff co-founded and became board member of the Dutch Society for Safe Curative Care (VVCZ). This society counts actually more than 16 Dutch hospitals as members that are helped to improve patient safety. Wolff also lead a patient safety education program in the RadboudUMC. As one of the activities he was involved in the introduction of Crew Resource Management for all professionals of the clinical high risk departments. He also started workshops to introduce Reflection for professionals involved in patient care to improve engagement, safety and quality of care. He was active in perioperative safety audits and was consulted by various hospitals. From 2016 to 2020 Wolff is involved in the Dutch Health Deal Chronic Pain (HDCP), a national initiative started to improve chronic pain patient care, to make it Sensible, Economical and Excellent (Zinnig, Zuinig & Excellent), according to the stepped care model of the Standard Chronic Pain. His attention is focused on improving patient care pathways. Wolff was member of the HDCP Scientific Advisory Counsil and he participated in the steering group to elaborate HDCP, also for the Northern part of the Netherlands and participates in various working groups such as implementation of the Standard of Care Chronic and structure indicator Standard of Care Chronic Pain. Wolff also chairs the Dutch Guideline Organisation of Chronic Pain Care (2020-2022).

2006-2009    Chairman Central Working Places Assembly, dept. of APPM and Operating Centre RadboudUMC

2006-2009    Research committee dept of APPM RadboudUMC

2007-2009    Task force anaesthesia nurses, Operating Centre

2007              Working group development activities for Physician Assistants, dept of APPM RadboudUMC

2007 - 2009  Chairman multidisciplinary working group for the development of the Dutch Guideline on Preoperative patient care (TOP 1)

2008 - 2015  Chairman policy committee Perioperative Quality & Safety, dept. of APPM RadboudUMC

2008 - 2010  Chairman multidisciplinary working group for the development of the Dutch Guideline on Peroperative patient care (TOP 2)

2009 - 2015 Project leader/Safety Officer RadboudUMC Perioperative Quality & Safety (such as implementation of Dutch guidelines pre-, per- and postoperative patient care and various VMS topics, Veiligheid Management Systeem)

2009               Chairman Committee Education & Research, dept. of Operating Theatres

2010               Committee Quality, Dutch Society for Anaesthesiologists

2010 - 2012  Chairman multidisciplinary working group for the development of the Dutch Guideline on Postoperative patient care (TOP 3)

2010               RadboudUMC Advisory board Electronic Patient File System

2011- 2015   Clinical Director dept. of Operating Centre, RadboudUMC, with special attention for patient safety

2012               Organization and chairman 16th congress of the Dutch Society for Day Surgery and Short Stay

2012 - 2014  Medical Advisor EPIC

Quality and Safety Officer, dept APPM, RadboudUMC

2011 - 2016 Chairman committee Quality, Dutch Society for Anaesthesiologists

2011 - 2015  Chairman of Dutch Federation of University Hospitals consortium on best practice Perioperative Patient Safety

2011               Co-founder Dutch Society for Safe Curative Care (VVCZ)

2011- 2016   Secretary at the Board of the Dutch Society for Safe Curative Care (VVZC)

2011 - 2014  Chairman of the Dutch Society of Day Surgery and Short Stay

2012               Organization symposium on patient safety and unsafety in the operative patient path

2012               Organization and chairman 2nd symposium of the Dutch Society of Safe Curative Care

2010               Certificate Good Clinical Practice, RadboudUMC

2012 - 2015 Chairman committee Incident Reporting Operating Centre RadboudUMC

2012 - 2015  RadboudUMC officer patient safety education

2012 - 2014  Chairman working group development and implementation of Crew Resource Management in RadboudUMC

2012 - 2013  RadboudUMC Working Group Perioperative Efficiency

2012               Critical IWKV (Instituut voor Waarborging Kwaliteit en Veiligheid) Audit dept of Surgery Pantein Hospital Boxmeer

2012 - 2015  Central NFU committee Master Quality and Safety in Patient Health Care

2013 - 2015  RadboudUMC Officer Patient Safety Education

2013               Organization and chairman 18th congress of the Dutch Society for Day Surgery and Short Stay

2014               Organization and chairman 19th congress of the Dutch Society for Day Surgery and Short Stay

2016 -            Steering committee Health Deal Chronic Pain

2017 - 2018  Working group netwerk indicator Zorgstandaard Chronische Pijn

2018 - 2019  Working group implementation Zorgstandaard Chronische Pijn

2018 - 2019 Steering committee National Health Deal Chronic Pain

2020               Chairman steering committee National Health Deal Chronic Pain

2019 -            Chairman Dutch Counsel Professors in Anaesthesiology Pain Medicine

2020 -            Chairman Scientific Committee Anaesthesiology UMCG

Audit and consultancy activities

2011               Audit Schepener Hospital Emmen, perioperatieve care

2012               Audit Ziekenhuis Pantein Boxmeer, surgical Care

2012               Chairman audit Instituut voor Waarborging Kwaliteit en Veiligheid  (IWKV) at dept of Lung Diseases in RadboudUMC

2013               Audit Antonius Hospital in Nieuwegein, perioperative care

2014               Audit Jeroen Bosch Ziekenhuis, perioperative care

2014               External Consultant/Critical Audit Perioperative Patient Safety in Atrium Medical Centre Heerlen

2014 - 2015   External Consultant/Critical Audit Diakonessenhuis Utrecht

2015 -             Various reviews for ZONMW

2017 -             Consultancy medical lawsuits

2018               Chairman audit NFU Master Quality and Safety in Patient Care. RadboudUMC Nijmegen

2018-2020     Mentor in NFU master course Quality & Safety in Patient care

2021-2023     Mentor in NFU master course Quality & Safety in Patient care

 

Science

In his resident time Wolff participated in research addressing the effect of epidural local anaesthetic agents, including Ropivacaine, a new drug at that time. From 1992-1997 Wolff participated in the anaesthesiology animal laboratory to elaborate the effect of short acting local anaesthestic agents in the white Wistar rat. Subsquently he started working for the Pain Acknowledge Centre Nijmegen where he was involved in various research and quality projects such as the development of the Dutch Pain Classification, the development of Epiduroscopy and in organizing scientific symposia and congresses.

He performed and published various studies on “Segmental Nerve Root Blocks in Patients with Chronic Radiating Low Back Pain: Bringing Light to the Darkness?” and finished his PhD thesis on this subject in 2006. The Dutch Society of Anaesthesiologists awarded this thesis as the best one for 2006-2007. Thereafter, from 2006 to 2008, he followed prof. dr Ben Crul as Head of the Pain Acknowledge Centre Nijmegen, supervising scientific and educational projects. 

In 2008 he became leader of a validation project for clinical hands on instruments developed to detect neuropathy. This project resulted in publications based on multi centre studies with respect to neuropathy identification tools.

Because of his activities in the field of patient safety and quality of care, Wolff also became the leader of a research group studying themes related to “Evidence Based Perioperative Patient Safety”. Main topics are the implementation effects of the national guidelines concerning the Pre-, Per- and Postoperative trajectory and implementation strategies. Various PhD students are active in this research area. Another main topic is studying instruments to identify unsafety in the perioperative patient care.

In Groningen main research.

In February of 2016 Wolff started as professor in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine at the University and UMC Groningen. He initiated research on the understanding, prevention and treatment of sensitization and somatosensory nervous system conduction patterns of chronic pain, with specific attention for precision diagnosis via the nervous system and central sensitization. Main research populations are patients with spinal pain, visceral related pain and oncology related pain. Innovation and quality of chronic pain related patient care paths is another topic of interest. Wolff collaborates for research within the UMCG with various departments and externally in national and international networks on chronic pain and pain in oncologic patients.

See publication list for further information

1986 -1987   North-Sulawesi, Indonesia: research program on the regional epidemiology of Hepatitis-B

1992 -1995   Animal laboratory, Dept of APPM, RadboudUMC: dose effect-relationship studies of short acting local anaesthetic agents (Wistar rats)

1995 - 2006  Pain Knowledge Centre RadboudUMC. Chairman Prof. dr B.J.P. Crul. Participation in various projects, amongst others pain classification, prevention of chronic pain and epiduroscopy

2006               PhD Thesis RadboudUMC: “Segmental Nerve Root Blocks in Patients with Chronic Radiating Low Back Pain: Bringing Light to the Darkness?” Promoter: Prof. dr B.J.P. Crul, co-promoters: dr G.J. Groen and dr O. Wilder-Smith

2007               Dutch Society of Anaesthesiology (NVA) - Abbot Award for the best PhD Thesis in 2006-2007

2008               Project leader Validation study of DN4 and PainDetect questionnaires for neuropathic pain patients in the Netherlands (Funded by Dali) RadboudUMC

2010               Certificate Qualification guiding research internships

2010 - 2015              Research group leader Evidence Based Perioperative Patient Safety RadboudUMC:

2014               BROK certificate: re-registration clinical research NFU/RadboudUMC

2016 -             Research leader on the understanding, prevention and treatment of sensitization and somatosensory nervous system conduction patterns of chronic pain. Patients with spinal pain, visceral pain and oncology related pain are main populations of interest. A research group is being formed with anaesthesiology staff members, residents and (PhD) students in cooperation with other UMCG departments and (inter)national networks

2019               BROK certificate: new registration clinical research

2020               Chairman Scientific Committee Anaesthesiology UMCG

2021               Topic Editor, Journal of Clinical Medicine

 

Teaching & education

In 1992 in Oss, Wolff started to organize periodic meetings to educate primary health care physicians in diagnosis and treatment of chronic pain syndromes. From 1997, the moment at which he started to work also for the Pain Knowledge Centre Nijmegen, he started to organize educational meetings and symposia and gave lectures to various kinds of health care professionals to improve their knowledge in chronic and oncologic pain medicine. From 2004-2008 he was a teacher in the PKO-curriculum in pain medicine for medicine students. For some years he also gave resuscitation lessons for dentistry students.

Since he was active in the field of patient safety and quality of care, he also gave lectures to residents, medical specialists and nurses of all specialties in the RadboudUMC. Wolff started lectures for 3rd year level medicine students in the context of Medical Professional Development (MPV-4). In 2010 as organizer and teacher he was involved in a serial of post-academic courses at the Academy of the Dutch Order of Medical Specialists. This was developed for medical specialists, hospital board members and managers to facilitate the implementation of the national guideline Preoperative patient care. In 2010 he also started as a teacher for BioMedical Science students (MBO-2, topic patient safety). In that year he also was involved in a post-academic course on the National Guideline on Responsibilities in Patient Care (Medisch Contact television). From 2009-2014 Wolff teached 5th year residents Anaesthesiology in Patient Safety and Quality of Patient Care (E-course of the National Curriculum Anaesthesiology).

In 2012 Wolff became program leader for Patient Safety Education in the RadboudUMC for all professionals involved  in patient care. These Master classes including master classes adressing the Patient Safety Management System themes. In that year he also got engaged as faculty member for the NFU Master Quality and Safety in Patient Care and became responsible for the development of and was teacher in Module 1.

In 2013 Wolff started teaching patient safety in the Radboudumc introduction course for physicians, residents, medical specialists and nurses who started newly in the Radboudumc. Wolff also supervised internship projects for end level students studying at the faculties Social Science, Radboud University Nijmegen and Business science, RadboudUMC and Catholic University of Brabant, Tilburg on topics concerning Organization and logistics.

At the University of Groningen Wolff participates in the Bachelor Medicine Curriculum and teaches Pain Medicine to bachelor students (Bachelor thesis, Personal Profiling and Oncologic Pain, Pain Week, Healthy Ageing, Learning Community Molecular Medicine), Master students Medicine, Movement Sciences, Summer School students and Anaesthesiology residents.

1992 - 1995 Teacher Lung physiology at School for Intensive Care Nurses, Ede

1995 -            (Invited) speaker at various national and international congresses: topics related to invasive pain treatment, the chronic pain syndrome and cancer pain, perioperative quality and safety

1994 - 2006 Teacher in education for primary care physicians, medical specialists, paramedics and students on acute, chronic and cancer pain treatment

2004 - 2008 Teacher Resuscitation training for students Dentistry

2004 - 2006  Teacher PKO-curriculum on pain medicine, faculty of Medicine, RadboudUMC

2008               Supervisor internships for end level students at faculties Social Sciences, Radboud University Nijmegen and Business sciences, RadboudUMC and Catholic University of Brabant, Tilburg

2009               Teacher Patient Safety Education for residents and medical specialists of all medical specialties at RadboudUMC

2009                Teacher in curriculum on Medical Professional Development (MPV-4), medicine students 3e level

2009 - 2014  Teacher national curriculum for residents anaesthesiology: perioperative safety and quality of care

2010              Teacher serial of post-academic courses for medical specialists, hospital board members and managers on the implementation of the national guideline preoperative patient care; organized by the Academy of the Dutch Order of Medical Specialists

2010              Post-academic course Medisch Contact television addressing the National Guideline on Responsibilities in Patient Care. J Legemaate, A. Wolff, B. Crul

2010              Teacher MBO-2 students biomedical sciences

2010              Teacher introduction course Patient Safety for new residents

2010              Certificate Qualification Practical Clinical Education RadboudUMC

2010              Certificate Qualification Theoretical Education RadboudUMC

2010              Certificate Qualification to supervising resident internships RadboudUMC

2012 - 2015  Teacher patient safety for residents Anaesthesiology

2012 - 2015  Program leader and teacher Patient Safety Master classes RadboudUMC

2012 - 2015  Program leader Patient Safety Education RadboudUMC

2012 -            Faculty NFU Master Quality and Safety in Patient Care; responsible for development of Module 1

2013 - 2015  Teacher introduction course Patient Safety for nurses

2014 -            Teacher and coordinator Module 1 Master Quality and Safety in Patient Care

2015              Certificate Qualification Theoretical Education RadboudUMC

2015 -            Teacher  Personal Profiling 2.1 Curriculum Medicine UMCG

2015 -            Teacher  Pain Management in Oncologic Pain, Curriculum Medicine UMCG

2016 -            Teacher Summer School Oncology and Pain Medicine RUG

2016 -            Supervisor  Bachelor thesis students RUG

2016 -            Teacher Pain Medicine Anaesthesiology Residents UMCG

2016               Teacher Pain Medicine National Curriculum Anaesthesiology Residents

2016 -             Teacher and supervisor Bachelor thesis Medicine students University of Groningen

2017 -             Supervisor Master thesis Medicine students University of Groningen

2018 -             Supervisor scientific internships RUG Bachelor and Master students Medicine

2018 -             Teacher Bachelor students Medicine and Movement Sciences

2019               Course Supervising PhD Students

2019 -             Training assessment residents in new curriculum Anaesthesiology

2019 -             Training assessment EPA residents in new curriculum Anaesthesiology

Management, governance experience & leadership

In the Anna Hospital in Oss Wolff followed a communication course How to treat patients in a friendly way and a later he followed a management training for medical specialists, in the Bernhoven Hospital Oss and Veghel. After 2000 he followed curriculum part 1 and 2 of the Personal Development and Leadership at the Catan School of Excellence. In 2006 Wolff experienced the Radboud Curriculum Integral Management for leaders, and in 2011 he followed the Curriculum Soul, Professionalism and Leadership, specifically organized for the management team of the department of Anaesthesiology in the Radboudumc that he was part of.

In 1996 Wolff became the chairman of the Regional Multidisciplinary Pain Centre North East Brabant until 2003. In 2006, after he had moved to the RadboudUMC, he became clinical director of the department of Anaesthesiology, Pain- and Palliative Medicine, which he ended in 2012. From 2006 to 2008 he was Head of the Pain Knowledge Centre and in 2007 Wolff became clinical director of the Operating Centre, which was later transformed in an academic department. When prof dr Hein Gooszen became chairman, Wolff’s function became more focused on safety. In 2009 he became the leader of a multi-year integral perioperative implementation program (STAP: Standardization, Team work, Addressing each other and Patient centredness) to enhance patient safety and culture in the Radboudumc.

Between 1996 and 2008 Wolff was board member in various professional organizations in the area of pain medicine such as the Section Pain of the Dutch Society of Anesthesiologists (NVA) and the Dutch Society for the Study of Pain (NVBP). He was representative of the Dutch Society of Anesthesiologists in the National Platform for Pain and Pain Medicine (SWVP). In 2004 he was co-founder and became secretary in the board of the Dutch Working Group Spinal Endoscopic Technics (LANSET). He also was board member of the Dutch Epiduroscopy foundation from 2006 – 2008. Wolff was board member of the Scientific Advisory Council National Pain Fund. In 2011 Wolff co-founded and became board member of the Dutch Society for Safe Curative Care (VVZC) in which more than 16 Dutch Hospitals participate at this moment. Finally Wolff was chairman of the Dutch Society of Day Surgery and Short Stay from 2011 – 2014 and is board member of the Help Elandsdoorn foundation to support minor local health care projects in Elandsdoorn, S-Africa.

In 2015 Wolff became the Head of the Pain Centre at the department of the Anaesthesiology in the UMC Groningen. He supervised the movement of the Pain Centre from location Groningen to Haren (Beatrixoord) and started its translation into a new organization. Wolff also started participating in the management team of the UMCG Spine Center and Pelvic Pain Centre and joined the UMCG advisory counsil for the Comprehensive Centre for Cancer.

Since 2017 Wolff became Medical Head of the Pelvic Center and in 2018 also of the Spine centre. After integration of the Anaesthesiology Pain Centre, Spine Centre, Pelvic Pain Centre and Pain Rehabilitation, Wolff became Head of the UMCG Pain Centre in 2019.

 Management & Leadership Education:

1999               How to treat your client kindly? St Anna Hospital Oss

2001               Management training for medical specialists, Bernhoven Hospital Oss and Veghel

2005               Training: Personal development and leadership, Catan School of Excellence, part 1

2006               Training: Personal development and leadership, Catan School of Excellence, part 2

2006 - 2007 Radboud Curriculum Integral Management, training for leaders, RadboudUMC

2010 - 2011  Curriculum Soul, Professionalism and Leadership, dept. of APPM (management team), RadboudUMC

2015               Course Mindful Leadership for medical professionals, RadboudUMC

2019               Course, Non-violent Communication, Wenckebach Institute Groningen

2021               Course, Listening Empathically, Savory Language

2021               Follow up course Non-violent Communication, Savory Language

 

Other

1987 – 1992 Supervising physician National Pilgrimages to Lourdes, nonpaid

2005  -            Board member of the Elandsdoorn foundation (S-Africa) nonpaid

2021 -            Member VOLT; member working group Healthcare, nonpaid

 

Memberships

Former:

Dutch Society of Anaesthesiology (NVA)

Pain Section of Dutch Society of Anaesthesiology

International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)

Dutch Chapter of IASP (NVBP)

The Dutch Pain Society

American Society for Regional Anaesthesia (ASRA)

American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA)

European Society of Anaesthesiologists (ESA)

European Society for Regional Anaesthesia (ESRA)

Dutch Order of Medical specialists (OMS)

Royal Dutch Society of Medicine (KNMG)

International Society for Quality in Healthcare (IsQua)

ASA Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) 

 

Actual:

Federation Medical Specialists (FMS)

Dutch Society for Day Surgery and Short Stay (NVDK)

Society for Safe Curative Care (VVCZ)

International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)

IASP Special Interest Group Pelvic Pain (IASP-SPP)

International Pelvic Pain Society (IPPS)

Dutch Society of Anaesthesiology (NVA)

European Pain Federatrion (EFIC )

Dutch Society of Anaesthesiology, Pain Section (NVA-SP)

 

Awards

2006   NVA (Nederlandse Vereniging voor Anesthesiologie) - Abbott Award best Thesis in 2006-2007: “Segmental Nerve Root Blocks in Patients with Chronic Radiating Low Back Pain: Bringing Light to the Darkness?”

2011   Order of Medical Specialists (OMS) Safety Award for development and implementation of the National Multidisciplinary Guidelines on the Pre- and Peroperative Trajectory (Chairman)

2012   RadboudUMC Safety Award for development and implementation of the ‘Groene Golf’ in RadboudUMC

2013   Poster Award ‘Non Compliance of Procedures is Most Important Cause of Perioperative Reported Unsafety’. Heideveld A, Calsbeek H, Gooszen H, Wolff A, Damen J. 26 sept 2013 AMC Benchmarkcongres

 

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