2nd Transatlantic conference on personalized medicine
8-9 october 2015, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

We thank our Conference Speakers for their excellent contribution.

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This overview – in alphabetical order – lists invited speakers who have confirmed or yet have to confirm. The Conference Program and Speakers Overview can be subject to change.

Chris Bangma

Professor and Chairman Department of Urology Erasmus MC, the Netherlands

Maarten den Braber

Co-founder Quantified Self Europe, Advisory board member Dutch National Policy project ‘Quantified Health’ Rathenau Institute, the Netherlands; Quantified Self Europe

Stef van Buuren

Professor of Applied Statistics in Prevention, Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), Utrecht University, the Netherlands

Edwin Cuppen

Professor of Genome Biology, Professor of Human Genetics, UMC Utrecht, Hubrecht Institute, Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research, the Netherlands.

Peter Dunki Jacobs

Oscar Franco

Professor in Preventive Medicine, Principal Investigator Cardiovascular Epidemiology Group Erasmus MC, Founder and Director ErasmusAGE, Deputy Sciences Director Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences (NIHES), the Netherlands

Anna Göjeryd Ulander

Sektionschef Värdebaserad Vård / Value Based Health Care, Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden

Andrew Goldberg

Professor in Medicine, Director of the Baltimore VA Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, the UMSOM Claude Pepper Older Americans Independence Center, UMSOM Division of Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, the Center for Research on Aging and NIA training program in exercise, nutrition and metabolism in aging and the Center for Research on Aging University of Maryland, United States of America

Bas van de Goor

Retired volleyball player from the Netherlands, Olympic sportsman, diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, founder of the Bas van de Goor Foundation, aimed at ‘improving the quality of life for people with diabetes through sports’, the Netherlands

Jan Hazelzet

CMIO and Professor Health Care Quality and Outcome, Erasmus MC, the Netherlands

Albert Hofman

Professor in Epidemiology, Chairman Department of Epidemiology Erasmus MC, Sciences Director Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences (NIHES), The Netherlands; Professor of Epidemiology (adjunct) Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, United States of America

Hans Hofstraat

Vice-President and Member of the Health care Program Board at Philips Research, the Netherlands

John Ioannidis

C.F. Rehnborg Chair in Disease Prevention Stanford University, Professor of Medicine, Professor of Health Research and Policy, Director of the Stanford Prevention Research Center at Stanford University School of Medicine; Professor of Statistics (by courtesy) Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences; director of the PhD program in Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Stanford University, United States of America

Roland Kanaar

Professor of Molecular Radiation, Department Genetics, Department Radiation Oncology, Erasmus MC;  Scientific co-founder of DNage, the Netherlands; Member of the scientific advisory board of the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology Foundation in Milan, Italy; member of editorial boards of a number of scientific journals including EMBO Journal and Molecular Cell; Member of the  European Molecular Biology Organization.

Maryam Kavousi

Post-doctoral Researcher Department of Epidemiology Erasmus MC, the Netherlands; Working Group Leader International Consortium of Heart and Ageing Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE), Consortium on Health and Ageing: Network of Cohorts in Europe and the United States (CHANCES)

Ineke Klinge

Visiting Professor Institute of Gender in Medicine (GiM)/Charité, Universitätsmedizin, Berlin; Chair Horizon2020 Advisory Group on Gender

Wessel Kraaij

Endowed Professor at Radboud University Nijmegen ( Institute for Computing and Information Sciences / Intelligent Systems / Information Foraging Lab), Principal Scientist Multimedia Technology, Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), the Netherlands

Steven Lamberts

President of the Netherlands Diabetes Federation, Director International Affairs Erasmus MC; Member Supervisory Board University of Amsterdam; Member Supervisory Board Academic Medical Center (AMC), the Netherlands

Suzanne Pasmans

Professor of Paediatric Dermatology, dermatologist/immunologist, Erasmus MC, the Netherlands

Bruce Psaty

Professor, Department of Medicine, Professor Epidemiology, Adjunct Professor, Department of Health Services, Co-director, Cardiovascular Health Research Unit Senior Investigator, Group Health Research Institute, University of Washington, United States of America

Margaret Rees

Reader Emeritus in Reproductive Medicine, University of Oxford; Visiting Professor at University of Glasgow, Scotland; Visiting Professor at Karolinska Institute, Sweden; Visiting Professor at University of Turku, Finland; Adjunct Associate Professor at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, at Rutgers University, United States of America; University of Oxford St Hilda’s College, United Kingdom

Janine Roeters van Lennep

Internist, Vascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC; Member of the Foundation of first multidisciplinary out-patient clinic for long-term cardiovascular risk management in women with previous severe pro-eclampsia, the Netherlands

Liesbeth van Rossum

Internist-endocrinologist; Head of Obesity Center, adult division; Medical Coordinator of outpatient clinic of Endocrinology, Erasmus MC, the Netherlands

Danny Sands

Co-Founder and Co-Chair, Society for Participatory Medicine; Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, United States of America

Peter van der Spek

Professor in Bioinformatics Erasmus MC, The Netherlands; Member of Strategic Development Partnership Oracle, USA; Member of Scientific Advisory Board New England Medical Center, Boston, United States of America

Jaap Verweij

Professor of Medical Oncology, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine Erasmus University, Vice Chairmain of the Board Erasmus MC, Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Netherlands

This overview – in alphabetical order – lists invited speakers who have confirmed or yet have to confirm. The Conference Program and Speakers Overview can be subject to change.