Prof. Dr. Tommy Andersson

Present positions

Professor of Neurointervention, AZ Groeninge, Kortrijk, Belgium.
Senior Consultant in Neurointervention, Department of Neuroradiology, Karolinska University Hospital
Director for Education in Neuroendovascular Treatment, Karolinska University Hospital
Shared director for the Section of Neurointervention and Angiography at KERIC (Karolinska Experimental Research and Imaging Centre)
Chairman of the Swedish national quality registry EVAS (EndoVascular therapy for Acute ischemic Stroke)
Chairman of the Examination Committee and member of the Executive Committee at ESMINT (European Society of Minimally Invasive Neurological Therapy)
Former chairman of the Swedish Society of Neuroradiology

Master of Physical Education, Stockholm, 1977-1979
Master of Pedagogic and Educational Research, 1983
Advanced course in Neuropathology, Karolinska lnstitute Medical School, 1988
University Medical Degree (MD), Karolinska lnstitute, Stockholm Sweden, 1988
PhD studies, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA,1991
Doctor of Medical Science (PhD), Karolinska lnstitute, Stockholm, Sweden,
1994
License to practise medicine, the Swedish National Board of
Health and Welfare, Stockholm, Sweden, 1994

Qualification as a Specialist of Neurological Surgery (board certified), The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare, Stockholm, Sweden, 2000
Fellowship in Vascular Neurosurgery and lnterventional Neuroradiology, Departments of Neurosurgery and Medical lmaging, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Canada, 2000-2002
Qualification as a Specialist of Neuroradiology (board certified), The Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare, Stockholm, Sweden, 2004
lnternational Master Degree in Neurovascular Diseases, Paris Sud University, France, and Mahidol University, Thailand, 2004
lnternational Good Clinical Practice Training, Pharma Lessons, 2018

>400 occasions since 2004 (dural fistulae, arteriovenous malformations, intracerebral aneurysms, subarachnoid hemmorhage, vasospasm, acute stroke, intracraniell stenting, intracranial arteriosclerotic disease, spinal vascular malformations, CNS vasculitis, extracranial stenting)
Resident’s best lecturer award Beitostölen, Norway, March 2007 and April 2011 (Scandinavian course in vascular neurosurgery)

Visiting Professor, Manila, The Philippines, April, 2008 (acute stroke, dural fistulas) and February 2012 (acute stroke, arteriovenous malformations)
Awarded “Torgny Greitz-lecturer” 2016

In cooperation with Ev3/Covidien/Medtronic organised 43 courses in the management of acute ischemic stroke since 2010
In cooperation with Cerenovus – Johnson & Johnson organized 3 courses in the management of acute ischemic stroke since 2018
Organised 3 Nordic-Baltic conferences in neurointerventional therapy

In conjunction with the Swedish Society of Neuroradiology organised 2 annual “Torgny Greitz lectures”
Co-organizer of the ECMINT course cycle, Oxford, UK since December 2014 and responsible for the annual ESMINT Diploma Examination, Nice, France

Responsible for preclinical animal testing at KERIC of “TREVO” endovascular thrombectomy device
PI, FIM-study for “IRIIS/Capture” endovascular thrombectomy device
Local PI, FIM-study for “Golden Retriever” endovascular thrombectomy device
Local PI, FIM-study for “Embotrap” endovascular thrombectomy device
Local PI, FIM-study for the “LOVIT-trial” of the “Illuminate” device for vasospasm treatment

Local PI, Ex Vivo Pilot study “ClotSpect” using Diffuse Reflection Spectroscopy to evaluate the composition of blood clots retrieved at thrombectomy
Member of the steering committee and Co-PI for the “SPERO” Post Marketing Study of the “Geometric Clot Extractor” for challenging occlusions
Member of the Steering Committee and Co-PI for the “BRAVO” FIM- study for the BRAVO flow diverter device
Co-PI, European PI for the ARISE-II study (multicentre RCT for FDA-approal)

Responsible, Chairman of the Steering Committee, for the Swedish national registry “EVAS” (Endovascular treatment in acute ischemic stroke)
Member of the Steering Committee for the Swedish National Stroke Registry “Riksstroke”

>150 original peer-reviewed articles

Olli Tähtinen, “Stent-assisted Endovascular Therapy of Complex Intracranial Aneurysms”. PhD-thesis, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, November 2014
Niels Fockaert, “Mechanical endovascular thrombectomy in acute ischemic stroke in Belgium: a retrospective multicenter case study”. Master-thesis, University of Leuven, May, 2015

Johnson Ho, “Generation of Patient Specific Finite Element Head Models”, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, December, 2008

Laleh Zarrinkoob, “Cerebral blood flow measurements with 4D PCMRI”, Umeå University, Sweden, 2019

Jose Alves, MD, Master in Neuroradiology, 2004-2007
Ladislau Pavic, MD, Master in Neuroradiology, 2005-2008
Joost deVries, MD, Master in Neurovascular Diseases, 2005-2006
Gustaf Mårtensson, Master of lngeneering, Doctoral Dissertation (PhD): “Analysis of laminar and turbulent flows with turbomachinery, biotechnology and biomechanical applications”, 2006
Johan Lundberg, MD, Doctoral Dissertation (PhD): “On endovascular methods for cell transplantation – exploring the selective intra-arterial and trans vessel routes”, 2011

Luca Verganti, Master in Neurovascular diseases, 2010-2011
Claudio Moratti, Master in Neurovascular diseases, 2010-2011
Åsa Kuntze-Söderqvist, MD, Doctoral Dissertation (PhD): “Mechanical thrombectomy for acute ischemic stroke”, 2016
Philip Little, PhD-student, 2013 -ongoing
Ulrik Nilsson Ranta, PhD-student,2013 – ongoing
Olivier Francois – PhD-student, 2019, ongoing