Heidi Mylenbusch, MD, PhD

Dr. Heidi Mylenbusch is a board-certified anesthesiologist with subspecialty and certification in Pain Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine, Emergency Medicine, and Diving Medicine.

She completed her medical degree at the University of Cologne in 1986 and the Anesthesiology internship and specializations in 1996 at the University of Göttingen (Germany). Since then, she has been working as a full-time anesthesiologist and pain therapist. Over the years, she has been teaching pain fellows, residents, nurses, and medical students the pathophysiology of pain, specific pain syndromes including cancer pain, and advanced interventional pain therapies.

Since 2003, Dr. Mylenbusch has been working in the Netherlands as an independent anesthesiologist and pain therapist. After 10 more years of clinical practice at the Hospital Ziekenhuisgroep Twente in Almelo, in 2012 she joined Dr. Michiel Schepers’ team at the Rugpoli Twente in Delden, Netherlands. Enthusiastic about the combination of effective conservative pain treatments with invasive intervention of the spine, she also trained and certified in skills of musculoskeletal medicine. Today she provides care for an average of 50 patients a week. Because of her expertise in interventional pain management techniques, she offers effective and innovative therapy for a challenging patient population. As a responsible anesthesiologist, she is developing protocols and quality standards for the whole group of 5 Rugpoli offices in the Netherlands. Her current research focuses on the mechanisms of discogenic pain with Modic changes.

She is passionate about teaching new colleagues joining the team and she has been a course instructor for the International Pain and Spine Intervention Society since 2014.

Dr. Mylenbusch is a fellow of the Dutch and the German Society of Anesthesiologists, member of WIP (she passed her FIPP examination in Budapest in 2017), and member of the International Pain and Spine Intervention Society, where she is engaged as an instructor and as member of the International Division.