Professor Bastiaan Bloem is a neurologist at the Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He received his medical degree, with honours, at Leiden University Medical Centre in 1993 and obtained his PhD degree in 1994. Bloem is a neurologist at the Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. He received his medical degree, with honours, at Leiden University Medical Centre in 1993 and obtained his PhD degree in 1994. He trained as a neurologist between 1994 and 2000. He received additional training as specialist in movement disorders during fellowships at The Parkinson’s Institute, Sunnyvale, California, and the Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London. In September 2008, he was appointed professor of neurology, with movement disorders as special area of interest.

Professor Bloem is on the editorial board of leading national and international (scientific ) journals and has over 800 publications to his credit. Since 2020 he serves as Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Parkinson’s Disease. In 2002, Professor Bloem founded the Radboudumc Center of Expertise for Parkinson’s & Movement Disorders and, together with Dr. Marten Munneke, developed ParkinsonNet, an innovative care concept for Parkinson’s patients consisting of 70 professional regional networks.
Professor Bloem is attached to the following societies:

• Executive Scientific Advisory Board of The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research
• Royal Holland Society of Sciences
• Academia Europaea
• Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
• Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

In 2018, he won the Tom Isaacs award in recognition of his long-standing achievements in the field of Parkinson’s disease. In 2022 he received the Stevin Award, the highest recognition for a Dutch scientist who has had greatest impact on society.