prof. Allard Hosman MSc, MD, PhD

About Allard Hosman

Allard Hosman graduated from Radboud Medical school with special interest in Medical Science and completed his internships in The Netherlands, Germany and South Africa. After finishing his orthopaedic training he did fellowships in paediatric orthopaedics, trauma- and spine-surgery. In 2003, he finalized his PhD on idiopathic deformities of the spine and started as a spine surgeon at the Radboud University Medical Centre and established the first Acute Spinal Cord Injury unit in the Netherlands. The Radboud UMC is an Eurospine certified centre and founding member of the European Multicentre Study about Spinal Cord Injury.

His research interest focuses on traumatic spinal cord injury. Together with Giuseppe Barbagallo MD and Joost van Middendorp MD PhD, Allard (PI) initiated the SCI-POEM study in 2012. The SCI-POEM study was a prospective, observational, European multicentre study on the neurological recovery after early versus delayed surgical decompression for acute, traumatic spinal cord injury. This AO EU spine sponsored pan-European study recruited patients from 17 centres throughout Europe.

Allard takes great pride training spine fellows and registrars.