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Folkert W. Asselbergs
Prof. Dr. Folkert W. Asselbergs is a consultant cardiologist, Prof of Translational Data Science at the University of Amsterdam, Chair of Amsterdam Heart Center, Prof of Precision medicine at the Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, chair Digital cardiology and AI committee of the European Society of Cardiology, chair data infrastructure Dutch CardioVascular Alliance, and associate editor of the European Heart Journal for the section digital innovation.
He recently founded the nudging unit that will provide a framework to conduct pragmatic trials embedded within routine care for knowledge discovery and improvement of patient care by increasing guideline adherence.
His research program focuses on precision medicine using real-world data from electronic health records and registries and -omics research for drug target discovery, pharmacogenetics and stratified medicine using digital twinning. He published over 625 papers and editor of the textbook “Clinical Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Real-World Data”. He is coordinator and co-PI in several(inter-) national consortia in the field of trustworthy AI, translation data science and digital health (ai4hf.com, heart4data.nl, mydigitwin.nl, datatools4heart.eu).
