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Frederik Barkhof (born February 2, 1962) is a neuroradiologist. He led the development of the Barkhof Criteria for using MRI findings to predict conversion to clinically definite multiple sclerosis.

Early life and education

Barkhof was born on February 2, 1962, in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He completed his medical degree at VU University Medical Center in 1988 and his PhD in 1992. Upon defending his thesis, he received the Philips Prize for Radiology and the Lucien Appel Prize for Neuroradiology.

Career

Upon graduating, Barkhof joined the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and co-published Comparison of MRI criteria at first presentation to predict conversion to clinically definite multiple sclerosis in 1997. This led to the development of the Barkhof Criteria for using MRI findings to predict conversion to clinically definite multiple sclerosis (MS). Following this publication, he became a Full Professor in Neuroradiology at Vrije's Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine and served as a senior staff member of their MS Center Amsterdam. By 2004, the Barkhof criteria was accepted into the new multiple sclerosis diagnostic criteria because of its high specificity for predicting conversion to multiple sclerosis.

Barkhof left Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in 2015 to accept an appointment as Professor of Neuroradiology at the University College London. As a result of his academic work, Barkhof was awarded the 2018 John Dystel Prize by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and the American Academy of Neurology "for his outstanding contribution to multiple sclerosis research in the understanding, treatment and prevention of multiple sclerosis." Following this, he also received a Gold Medal from the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine for his contributions to MRI research. In 2018 and 2020 Barkhof was listed by Thompson-Reuters as one of the top 3000 most influential scientists world-wide.

References

1. "Barkhof, Frederik, 1962-". id.loc.gov. Retrieved May 19, 2021.
2. ^ "Biography Frederik Barkhof, MD, PhD" (PDF). ectrims-congress.eu. Retrieved May 19, 2021.
3. Barkhof, Frederik; Filippi, M.; Miller, D.H.; Scheltens, P.; Campi, A.; Polman, C.H.; Comi, G.; Adèr, H.J.; Losseff, N.; Valk, J. (November 1997). "Comparison of MRI criteria at first presentation to predict conversion to clinically definite multiple sclerosis". Brain. 120 (11): 2059–2069. doi:10.1093/brain/120.11.2059. hdl:1871/24709. PMID 9397021.
4. Hurley, Dan (4 October 2018). "Professionalism-Multiple Sclerosis: Frederik Barkhof, MD, PhD: A Slight Detour on the Way to Winning the Dystel Prize for MS Research". Neurology Today. 18 (19): 47. doi:10.1097/01.NT.0000547373.94239.8e. S2CID 80903897.
5. Sastre-Garriga, Jaume; Tintoré, Mar; Rovira, Alex (2004). "Specificity of Barkhof Criteria in Predicting Conversion to Multiple Sclerosis When Applied to Clinically Isolated Brainstem Syndromes". JAMA Neurology. 61 (2): 222–224. doi:10.1001/archneur.61.2.222. PMID 14967770.
6. "Spotlight on Professor Frederik Barkhof". ucl.ac.uk. 2 August 2018. Retrieved May 19, 2021.
7. "Professor Frederik Barkhof awarded 2018 John Dystel Prize". ucl.ac.uk. February 13, 2018. Retrieved May 19, 2021.
8. "Frederik Barkhof ontvangt gouden medaille voor zijn bijdrage aan MRI onderzoek" (in Dutch). May 18, 2021. Retrieved May 19, 2021.
9. "Brain Science professors featured among the world's most-cited researchers of 2020". ucl.ac.uk. December 4, 2020. Retrieved May 19, 2021.
10. "IoN academics cited in global list of influential researchers". ucl.ac.uk. November 28, 2018. Retrieved May 19, 2021.

External links

Frederik Barkhof publications indexed by Google Scholar

• Living people
• 1952 births
• Physicians from Amsterdam
• Dutch neurologists
• Academics of University College London
• Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam alumni