Pieter Kubben is a medical doctor from the Netherlands. He is a senior resident in neurosurgery at the Maastricht University Medical Center, and performs a PhD thesis on glioma surgery with intraoperative MRI.

As a hobby, he started developing software for mobile computing and clinical decision support. Starting in 2001, he has won two international awards for his efforts in PHP & MySQL.

Since 2009 he focuses on Rich Internet Applications and developing mobile apps for iOS,  Android and Windows 8.

In 2010 he released three medical iPhone apps, and became IT editor and associate editor-in-chief of the open-access journal Surgical Neurology International. One of his apps, called NeuroMind, became the #1 ranked app for neurosurgery for iPhone, iPad and Android. It has been mentioned three times in the widely cited “Top Apps” on iMedicalApps.com, and is also available for Windows 8. Testimonials and media coverage are available here.

In 2011 he gave a TEDx talk explaining his philosophy behind the apps, and his vision on clinical decision supporting systems (CDSS). Such systems are implemented in NeuroMind 2.0 which was released in April 2012.

In December 2012 he was named one of the “Top Ten Internet-Smart Doctors in the WORLD” by the weblog InternetMedine.com.

A detailed curriculum vitae is available from his website.