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Looking for an expert on healthcare, prevention and healthy living?

Our experts are researching how to live longer and healthier lives, and how society can future-proof healthcare with consideration for everyone.

Are you a journalist looking for researchers with specific expertise in the field of healthcare? Do you want to find out more about a particular healthcare scientist? Our experts are investigating how to live longer and healthier lives, and how society can future-proof healthcare with consideration for everyone.

On this page, you’ll find all the profiles of scientists conducting research in healthcare – from disease prevention to affordable and inclusive healthcare. You can find their contact details, areas of expertise and links to their research below. Scroll down to see the complete list.

Do you have a specific question and want to speak to a scientist at VU Amsterdam? Get in touch with our healthcare experts directly by using the contact details below. For other media-related inquiries, please contact VU Amsterdam’s press office.

Our experts

Take a look at our various healthcare experts:

Anne van der Geest - postdoctoral researcher in preventive care

Expertise: preventive and proactive healthcare, healthcare system, probiotics, nutrition, medications

Anne van der Geest

Carina Pittens – assistant professor of patient involvement

Expertise: medications, patient involvement, healthcare, healthcare system

Dr. Carina Pittens

Ingeborg Brouwer – professor of nutrition for healthy living

Expertise: healthy eating, sustainable eating, cardiovascular diseases, physiology

Jolanda Maas – associate professor of clinical psychology

Expertise: mental health, nature, spatial design, physical activity

Koen Hindriks – professor of artificial intelligence (AI)

Expertise: AI in healthcare, social AI, conversational agents (chatbots), social robotics, human-AI interaction

Lieselot Vandenbussche – assistant professor care system

Expertise: healthcare system design, collaboration between healthcare providers, social workers, municipalities and residents, healthcare and well-being in local communities

Marcel Canoy – endowed professor of health economics

Expertise: elderly care, informal care, healthcare system, nursing home care, healthcare policy, personal budget (PGB) dossier, rising healthcare costs, caring communities.

Marit Sijbrandij, PhD

Full Professor, Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences

Marit Sijbrandij, PhD

Meike Bartels – professor of genetics and well-being

Expertise: happiness

Mirjam Pijnappels – professor of prevention and rehabilitation

Expertise: exercise behaviour among elderly people, prevention, rehabilitation, mobility

Piet Stam – professor of health economics

Expertise: risk equalisation, risk selection, data modelling

Rob Wüst – assistant professor of movement physiology

Expertise: muscle function, fatigue, metabolism, movement physiology, long covid, heart, diabetes

Taco de Vries - professor of addiction and neurobiology

Expertise: addiction, smoking, alcohol, neural research

Xander Koolman – professor of health economics

Expertise: health insurance contracts, healthcare costs, integrated healthcare agreements, healthcare waiting lists, own-risk deductible, market operations in the health sector

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