Rik Stokking was born July 22, 1965, at the Holy Hospital in
the city of Vlaardingen, the Netherlands.
In 1983 he obtained his VWO-diploma at the C.C. Groevenbeek in Ermelo and
started the study Technical Physics at the Technical University of Twente
at Enschede. In 1984 he moved to Utrecht to begin the study Medical Biology
with Medical Informatics as the main project. The study was completed in
1990 to be followed by military service (at that time still mandatory in
the Netherlands) as a lieutenant at the RIVM public health research facilities
in Bilthoven. This period was followed by working as a PhD and Research
Associate at the Image Sciences Institute
of the University Hospital Utrecht
/ Utrecht University. As part
of his work he did research on liver(-vessel) segmentation and visualization
from MRI data, and inventory of Abdominal Aorta Aneurysms using CTA data.
The major part of his work, however, involved research in the area of integrated
visualization of functional and anatomical brain data resulting in a PhD
thesis defended on friday the 13th of February, 1998.
For little over 2 years, Rik worked in the USA as a Postdoctoral Associate
and Associate Research Scientist at the Yale
Image Processing Group in New
Haven where he continued research into integrated visualization. More
specifically, the subject concerned the integration of difference SPECT
data with MR images for epilepsy research.
At the moment Rik is working at the Brain
Imaging Center of the Montreal Neurological
Institute, McGill University in
Montreal, Canada.
Rik started his pre-occupation with medical procedures at a
very young stage causing a lot of problems the day he was born. The doctors
had given up on him, but already at an early age Rik started to challenge
medical professionals... ;-) His subsequent life-path gradually pulled
him back to hospitals to (again) try to work with clinicians (and this
time with far less problems). This path was paralleled by a private life
mainly governed by fun and sports. Playing a lot of football (european
soccer) both outdoors and indoors (USVF
webpages), and arranging competitions, consumed most of his time between
work. Furthermore, sleeping used to be a hobby in the years bk (before kids)....
The day Rik defended his PhD thesis was also the day that he and Judith
married (
marriage invitation). Their move to the USA for a period of little over
2 years has made a huge impact on their lives. An even more profound change
occurred on November 3rd, 1998 when their son Yuri was born at Yale New
Haven Hospital. He was 'scheduled' for October 20th, but needed a little
push to wake-up and step out of his comfy-bed (Yuri copied some genes from
his daddy...). The heavy contractions started around 5.30 a.m., and from
then on Yuri proved unstoppable. He was born at 9.21 a.m., weighing 8 lb
1.5 oz (3670 grams) and measuring 20 3/4 inches (53 cm). So far, Yuri has
been a very good boy and sleeping may well be considered a hobby....
The family Stokking recently moved to Montreal, Canada where their second
boy Roy (named after Mount Royal) was born. Judith and Rik were expecting
Roy to show up late (as did Yuri), but apparently Roy copied the 'when
to show up for appointments'-genes from his mother. Two days ahead of his
due date, at 1 am sunday morning the 13th of august, 2000, Roy started
ringing the belly-bell. At 5 am the waters broke, so the family packed
up and drove to the hospital. Within 4 hours Roy was in the arms of his
mother. Roy was born at 8.45 a.m., weighing 7 lb 1 oz (3205 grams) and
measuring 20 1/4 inches (51.8 cm). So far, Roy has been a very good boy
and sleeping (during the day) may well be considered a hobby....
Photos Yuri (November98
- December98)
Photos Yuri
(December98 - March99)
Photos Yuri
(January99 - April99)
Photos Yuri
(April99 - June99)
Photos Yuri
(July99 - Oct99)
Photos Yuri
(Nov99 - Feb00)
Photo Roy (ultrasound)
(April 2000)
Photos family
(August 2000)
Photos family
(Feb 2001)
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marriage invitation). Their move to the USA for a period of little over
2 years has made a huge impact on their lives. An even more profound change
occurred on November 3rd, 1998 when their son Yuri was born at Yale New
Haven Hospital. He was 'scheduled' for October 20th, but needed a little
push to wake-up and step out of his comfy-bed (Yuri copied some genes from
his daddy...). The heavy contractions started around 5.30 a.m., and from
then on Yuri proved unstoppable. He was born at 9.21 a.m., weighing 8 lb
1.5 oz (3670 grams) and measuring 20 3/4 inches (53 cm). So far, Yuri has
been a very good boy and sleeping may well be considered a hobby....