Kris Vissers is an accredited anesthesiologist – pain specialist and consultant in palliative care, professor in Pain and Palliative Medicine and chairman of the Radboud Expertise Center of Pain and Palliative Medicine of the Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre in the Netherlands. As a Research Group Leader his research program focusses on the quality of life of vulnerable patients.
Since 2005, he is Professor in Pain and Palliative Medicine at the Radboudumc University Nijmegen. He was the first chairman of the Dutch Society of Multidisciplinary Palliative Care Professionals , chapter of the European Association of Palliative Care (EAPC) and is the immediate past president of the Pain Alliance in the Netherlands, oldest chapter of the IASP. He is Past President of the World Institute of Pain. Currently, he is the Director education and certification of the World Institute of Pain and chair of the ESMO designated centers of integrated oncology and palliative care. His main research interests are focusing on translational approach and research on neuropathic pain and oncology, palliative sedation, identification of patients in a palliative trajectory, quality indicators of the organization of pain and palliative medicine and eHealth and decision making in palliative care and end-of-life. He is author of more than 370 publications in international peer reviewed journals and contributed to more than 20 textbooks. He was promotor of 45 PhD affiliates who completed their training. Currently, he is training about 29 PhD affiliates.