Folkert Asselbergs

Principal Investigator, PROF.DR.

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Research interests

Prof. Dr. Folkert W. Asselbergs is a consultant cardiologist, Prof of Translational Data Science at the University of Amsterdam, Chair of Amsterdam Heart Center, Prof of Precision medicine at the Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, chair Digital cardiology and AI committee of the European Society of Cardiology, chair data infrastructure Dutch Cardiovascular Alliance (www.dcvalliance.nl), and associate editor of the European Heart Journal for the section digital innovation. His research program focuses on precision medicine using real-world data from electronic health records and registries and -omics research for drug target discovery, pharmacogenetics and stratified medicine using digital twinning. He founded the nudging unit that will provide a framework to conduct pragmatic trials embedded within routine care for knowledge discovery and improvement of patient care by increasing guideline adherence (www.nudgingtrials.com) and the Amsterdam Center for Computational Cardiology (http://computational-cardiology.nl). He published over 650 papers and editor of the textbook "Clinical Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Real-World Data". He is coordinator and co-PI in several(inter-) national consortia in the field of trustworthy AI, translation data science and digital health (www.ai4hf.com, heart4data.nl, www.mydigitwin.nl, www.datatools4heart.eu).

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Education/Academic qualification

Master, Health Economics, The London School of Economics and Political Science

PhD, Clinical Pharmacology

Postdoctoral fellowship Bioinformatics, Dartmouth College

Postdoctoral fellowship Genetic Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Master, Medicine, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen

External positions

Prof Precision Medicine, University College London

Keywords

  • R Medicine (General)

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