Interview Paul Hofman, Professor of Forensic and Post-mortem Radiology
Paul Hofman, Professor of Forensic and Post-mortem Radiology: “We need more investigations into the cause of death”

Paul Hofman, Professor of Forensic and Post-mortem Radiology: “We need more investigations into the cause of death”
Silke Metzelthin, Rixt Zijlstra, Erik van Rossum, Annemarie Koster, Silvia Evers and Ruud Kempen – affiliated with three different CAPHRI research lines – have successfully applied for a four-year ZonMw grant to test the (cost-) effectiveness of the ‘Stay Active at Home’ programme.
On 30 September Casper Webers won the Poster Award for his poster titled 'Valuing treatment with infliximab for ankylosing spondylitis using a willingness-to-pay approach'.
On 17 September Geneviève van Liere received the oral presentation award for her talk on anogenital chlamydia.
Irma Everink is a PhD candidate in the CAPHRI Research Line Ageing and Long-Term Care. She was selected for this award for her abstract on ‘Effects of an integrated care pathway within geriatric rehabilitation: preliminary results’.
On 9 November Annerika Slok defended her PhD thesis titled ‘Towards personalised management using the Assessment of Burden of COPD (ABC) tool’ and was awarded the distinction cum laude.
‘There’s no cure for osteoarthritis’, is what Wikipedia and all available textbooks say. According to the consortium ‘William Hunter revisited’, led by Prof. Karperien (University of Twente), it is now time to revise this.
De prijs voor de beste kennisbenutting in de natuurkunde gaat dit jaar naar prof. dr. Ron Heeren (M4I). Hij werkt aan verbetering van de klinische diagnostiek door middel van beeldvormende massaspectrometrie.
David Townend, endowed professor of Law and Legal Philosophy in Health, Medicine and Life Sciences: Governance and Regulation in a Changing Science Landscape
Anke Langenfeld has received the Scientific Award for her poster ‘Development of a Self-administered Neck Mobility Assessment Tool (S-ROM-Neck) In Chronic Neck Pain Patients: A prospective cohort study’.