Philippe Rigoard, MD-PhD

Professor of Neurosurgery / Chair of the department of Spine Surgery & Neuromodulation
Director of PRISMATICS Lab (Predictive Research and Innovative Strategies for Medical & Advanced Technology Integration in Care Systems)
Poitiers University Hospital, France.
International Neuromodulation Society (INS) Treasurer / INS Europe, Canada, and Africa Regional Past Director-at-Large / SFNM French chapter Past-President

His main research interests are neuromodulation and spine biomechanics. He has been involved in intensive scientific collaborations with several researchers worldwide, e.g., Prof. Krishna Kumar (USASK, Canada), Prof. Line Jacques (UCSF, USA), Prof. Richard North (JHU, USA), Dr. Adnan Al-Kaisy (London, UK), Dr. Kliment Gatzinsky (Göteborg, Sweden), Prof. Maarten Moens (VUB, Belgium), Prof. Sam Eldabe (Leeds, UK), Prof. Rod Taylor (Exeter, UK) and Prof. Konstantin Slavin (UIC, USA).
In 2021, he had the privilege to organize and the honor to host the 2nd INS Congress of the European Chapters in Paris (2-4 Sept 2021).

Prof. Rigoard has also published 174 articles in peer-reviewed journals indexed in PubMed, an H-Index of >35 and i-10>84, several book chapters, has lectured at more than 300 conferences and symposia worldwide and edited an Atlas of Anatomy of the Peripheral Nerves (Springer), including recent neuromodulation techniques available in the expert version.