Wouter I. Schievink MD

Dr. Wouter I. Schievink is a Professor of Neurosurgery and Director of the Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak Program in the Department of Neurosurgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California. Dr. Schievink specializes in the outcomes of complex cerebrovascular surgery, spontaneous intracranial hypotension (SIH)/spinal CSF leaks, extracellular matrix proteins in intracranial aneurysms, cervicocephalic arterial dissections, and models of intracranial aneurysms.

Dr. Schievink is a leading expert and widely published author on Spontaneous Cerebrospinal Fluid Leak Syndrome. He earned his medical degree from the University of Amsterdam Medical School in 1989 and completed his residency training at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, in 1997. He then completed a cerebrovascular fellowship at the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona.

From 1998 to 2000, Dr.Schievink served as Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery in the Department of Neurological Surgery at the UCI Medical Center in Irvine, California. He began his academic neurosurgical practice in 1997 at the Neurosurgical Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he continues to practice.

Dr. Schievink is an active member of the Medical Advisory Committee for Spinal CSF Leak Canada.