The ‘E-manager Chronic Diseases’ project, a collaboration between CAPHRI, TNO, NIVEL and the University of Twente, was awarded a prestigious grant within the Innovative Medical Devices Initiative (IMDI) program of ZonMw earlier this month.
Onno van Schayck and Annerika Slok received the NRS science award for their research about the Assessment of Burden of COPD tool.
The CaRe Award 2018 has been awarded to Ben Wijnen for his dissertation titled “Health Technology Assessment in Epilepsy: Moving Towards Patient-Centered, Efficient Care”.
Congratulations to Kei Long Cheung, now postdoc at CAPHRI, who defended his thesis titled 'The Use of an Economic Decision Support Tool in the Context of Tobacco Control - Prerequisites for the development of a support tool for economic decision-making'.
Marieke van Engelenburg- van Lonkhuyzen was awarded the KNGF thesis prize for her thesis titled 'Pelvic physiotherapy: in childhood bladder and bowel dysfunctions'.
At the IUSTI conference on sexually transmitted infections, Prof.dr. Christian Hoebe, professor infectious disease control (GGD South Limburg and CAPHRI research line IPG) received the best oral presentation award for his talk on the femcure study.
Health economists and Health Technology Assessment (HTA) scientists of Maastricht University (School CAPHRI) have organised on behalf of the European Health Economics Association (EUHEA) the 12th European Conference on Health Economics (11-14 July).
Dr. Gera Nagelhout, Prof. Onno van Schayck, and Drs. Floor van den Brand (research line Optimising Patient Care and research line Promoting Health and Personalised Care) received a grant from ZonMw for an implementation study on smoking cessation in the workplace.
Ben Wijnen has won the prize for best 2017 article from the Dutch Society of Technology Assessment in Health Care (NVTAG) for his methodological article.
The workgroup ‘Socialgreen’ of ‘Universiteit met de buurt’ investigates, together with residents of Maastricht North-West, how the green in their neighbourhood could become a meeting place for people and for people and nature.
