About
The team of Erasmus MC consists of experts in (shared) decision making, palliative and person centered care, medical ethics, urology, oncological surgery, and medical informatics
We have expertise in shared decision making; patient participation; the development of algorithms predicting outcomes trajectories for different treatments; the development, implementation and evaluation of complex interventions in clinical oncological practice, and the use of NLP and machine learning techniques to capture large textual datasets.
The Erasmus MC team works across five departments: Public Health, Medical Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine, Urology, Oncological Surgery and Medical Informatics.
Examples of our expertise can be found in international projects that we have been involved in recently, including iLIVE, CENTER-TBI and ERSPC.
Researchers
Cláudia Sofia Cruz Oliveira
PhD student
I am a PhD student in the medical decision-making section of the public health department of the Erasmus MC, with a focus on prognosis methodology. My primary role in the project will be to develop prognostic tools to be implemented in decision-support tools in prostate cancer.
Yassin Engelberts
PhD candidate
I’m an epidemiologist by training, now pursuing my PhD at the Erasmus MC. Within 4D PICTURE, I am a member of work package 1. My work primarily focuses on (shared) decision making in oncology and patient and public involvement in research.
Laura Hartman
Embedded ethicist
I work as an embedded ethicist within the 4D picture project as part of WP7. I have a background in philosophy and obtained my PhD in medical ethics at AUMC. I also worked at the House of Representatives and the Dutch Council for Ethics and Health and Health and Society.
Christiaan Huibert Bangma
Professor in Urology
I am a clinician researcher, expert in prostate cancer, with an interest in care path management, value based health care, diagnostics and treatment, and basic research. My role is to link the Anser prostate network to the project especially via Metromapping.
Linetta Koppert
Associate professor Surgical Oncology
I am a surgical oncologist and epidemiologist at the Erasmus MC, Rotterdam. My main focus in clinic and research is breast cancer. My role in the project is to deliver breast cancer patient data in order to develop prediction models on outcome. These could be build in in a breast cancer MetroMap.
Ida Korfage
Co-Principal Investigator
I am an epidemiologist with a focus on (shared) decision making and the involvement of patients and public in research. My primary role in 4D PICTURE will be supporting synergy.
Hester Lingsma
Work Package 2 Lead
I am professor of Medical Decision Making in the department of Public Health of the Erasmus MC. I lead a multidisciplinary research group involved in prediction research, comparative effectiveness research, and quality of care research.
I lead WP2, in which we aim develop prognostic models to predict outcome that are relevant to patients and health care professionals to support treatment decisions. Eventually these models will be presented in user-friendly decision support tools and integrated in the metro maps.
Judith Rietjens
Professor of Design for Public Health
Judith Rietjens is professor of Design for Public Health at the Department of Public Health at Erasmus MC and the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology. Her research and teaching focuses on the integration and combination of methodologies and best practices from design research and public health, to optimize person centred care while taking into account healthcare system complexities.
Monique J Roobol
Professor Decision Making in Urology
Co-developer of the “Rotterdam Prostate Cancer Risk Calculator”: (prostatecancer-riskcalculator.com), and I will guide a PhD student with her work on modelling.
Maartje Schermer
Professor medical ethics and philosophy
I am a professor of medical ethics and philosophy of medicine, interested in the ethics of AI, risk prediction and shared decision-making. Our role in the project is that of ’embedded ethicists’: we will help identify, analyze and deal with ethical issues arising throughout the consortium.
Judith Spek
Project manager
I am part of the research support staff at the department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, and I assist the principal investigators of 4D PICTURE with the management of the project.
Kyra Ubaghs
Project manager
I have an MSc in agricultural sciences; I am a project manager for European projects (Horizon2020, Horizon Europe); My role in the project is to assist Judith Spek who is the designated project manager for 4D picture.
David van Klaveren
Assistant professor at the Public Health department
I am a mathematician and assistant professor in the department of Public health, with an interest in biostatistics and prediction modeling. I will develop and validate new prediction models, and update existing prediction models, to support medical decisions for cancer patients
Erik van Mulligen
Assistant Professor
I’m a data scientist with an interest in text mining, ontologies, and knowledge representation. My primary role in the project will be to collect data sources for WP3 and to work on text mining.
Lionne Venderbos
Assistant Professor
Quality of life researcher who dedicates her time to quality of life research in mainly prostate cancer patients using patient reported outcome data. It generates important information which professionals and patients can use in the disease-specific decision-making process.
Elfi Verheul
PhD researcher
I am a PhD researcher with interest in quality of life, personalized care, and (reconstructive) surgery. With our team, we will develop evidence-based decision-support tools, which can be integrated in a new care path for cancer. My focus is on breast cancer.
