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Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands	MD	2006	Medicine
Maastricht university, Maastricht, The Netherlands	PhD	2020	Clinical Neuroscience
St Willibrord Spital, Emmerich Am Rhein, NRW Germany		2015	Anesthesia & Critical care

Dr Riphagen is interested in the use of multi modal imaging ( MRI. PET ) combined with plasma and physiology metrics to better predict the trajectories of people with Alzheimer's disease related pathology. Current research is focused on the role of the basal forebrain in AD and functional testing of the Locus Coeruleus.

Dr Riphagen is a physician researcher (MD, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands) with a background in Anesthesia and Critical care (Residencies in The Netherlands (medicine, critical care) and Germany (anesthesia & critical care) with an interest in aging and dementia. From 2015 to 2020 he was part of the Brain Aging and Dementia lab (Dr.David Salat) researching vascular contributions to dementias and received a PhD in Neuroscience from the School for Mental Health and Neuroscience of Maastricht University (The Netherlands) in 2020. After that he was a research fellow in the MGH Gordon Center for medical imaging (Dr. Georges El Fakhri), and is currently instructor at the Athinoua A. Martinos Center for medical imaging, a co-investigator for the The Harvard Aging Brain Study (HABS) and the Bluespot/Heidi Jacobs Lab.(Dr. Heidi Jacobs).