Tommy Andersson

Tommy Andersson MD, PhD, is qualified as a specialist in Neurological Surgery and Neuroradiology, presently Professor and Senior Consultant in Neurointervention at AZ Groeninge, Kortrijk, Belgium, and at the Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. He is the Director for Education in Neuroendovascular treatment at Karolinska, Shared Director for the Section of Neurointervention and angiography at KERIC (Karolinska Experimental Research and Imaging Centre), Chairman of the ESMINT Examination Committee as well as of the Swedish national quality registry EVAS (EndoVascular therapy for Acute ischemic Stroke) and the former Chairman of the Swedish Society of Neuroradiology. Prof Andersson received his medical training and certificates at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and was between 2000 and 2002 fellow in Vascular Neurosurgery and Interventional Neuroradiology at the Departments of Neurosurgery and Medical Imaging, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Canada. He has been the PI for several international multicentre studies and an invited speaker at international conferences more than 300 times in the last 15 years. Prof Andersson has organised more than 40 courses in management of acute stroke patients for European physicians, supervised a large number of Master- and PhD-students and is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles and book chapters.