Sander Dijkstra

Professor Dijkstra serves as professor of orthopaedic surgery at Leiden University Medical Center, the largest bone and soft tumour centre in the Netherlands. After completing his graduate medical study at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Prof Dijkstra completed a thesis on long-bone pathological fractures resulting from bone metastases in 1997. Prof Dijkstra’s research, clinical expertise and development work has focused on specific diagnosis such as benign bone tumours i.e. fibrous dysplasia, giantcel tumour, atypical cartilaginous tumor, and malignant bone sarcomas i.e. chordoma and chondrosarcoma. Furthermore, he specialized in tumor surgery on the sites spine and pelvic surgery, and he is an expert in computer assisted surgery and 3D printed prostheses.