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Basel, Switzerland

Basel Area, Switzerland

Nationale Infrastruktur für Editionen - Infrastructure nationale pour les éditions (NIE - INE) -National Infrastructure for Editions: http://e-editiones.chCollaboration between the Universities of Basel, Bern, Lausanne and Zürich to develop an infrastructure for long-term storage of the scientific data and results of publishing projects in the humanities.

Basel Area, Switzerland

• Creating a business network in Healthcare, Life Sciences and Administration• Business case definitions in discussion with stakeholders, e.g. Open Data Zürich• Semantic Web Technology training: different languages to express vocabularies (RDF, RDFS, OWL), RDF query language (SPARQL ), rules for automated reasoning

Basel Area, Switzerland

• Implementation of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) standards, based on semantic technology (RDF) within Data Standards Office, Biometrics group, Pharma Product Development• Clinical Real World Data (RWD) science and analysis support as clinical researcher and terminology/coding specialist with intermediate statistical and epidemiological knowledge • Expertise in analysis tools SÆfetyworks and CEWorks, and RWD databases (e.g. MarketScan , Premier , and CPRD… Show more • Implementation of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) standards, based on semantic technology (RDF) within Data Standards Office, Biometrics group, Pharma Product Development• Clinical Real World Data (RWD) science and analysis support as clinical researcher and terminology/coding specialist with intermediate statistical and epidemiological knowledge • Expertise in analysis tools SÆfetyworks and CEWorks, and RWD databases (e.g. MarketScan , Premier , and CPRD )• Evaluation of clinical data models for a new RWD platform, e.g. the Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) • Familiar with the databases of the Universal Protein Resource (UniProt) and the European Bioinformatics Institute , e.g. Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) and Bioactive data for drug discovery (ChEMBL)• Participation in the EU 7th Framework Programme (FP7) research project SALUS , about post-market drug safety studies based on semantic technology Show less

Global

Creating RDF/S and OWL2 ontologies, rules written in Notation 3 syntax, SPARQL queries, clinical research for formal knowledge expression

Gent, Belgium

• Researcher in Medical Informatics, especially Semantic Web technology: http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb• Enhancing Clinical Information Systems, e.g. Electronic Health Record (EHR) System and Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS), with a Semantic Interoperability Platform (SIP) to integrate and analyze data from different sources in a formal way, using machine reasoning• Contribution to SIP:- Development of formal ontologies and rules for reasoning- Creation of SPARQL… Show more • Researcher in Medical Informatics, especially Semantic Web technology: http://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb• Enhancing Clinical Information Systems, e.g. Electronic Health Record (EHR) System and Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS), with a Semantic Interoperability Platform (SIP) to integrate and analyze data from different sources in a formal way, using machine reasoning• Contribution to SIP:- Development of formal ontologies and rules for reasoning- Creation of SPARQL queries to retrieve formal data sets• Ontologies:- Expressed in RDF/S and OWL2, in Notation3 (N3) syntax- Establishing a middle-out way of modeling, using existing ontologies- Cf. open source projects: - General: http://eulersharp.sourceforge.net/ - Medical: http://www.agfa.com/w3c/2009/- E.g. about disorders, drug therapy, adverse event, clinical trial• Rules expressed in N3:- Applying multiple open source built-ins and plugins- Various types: - Conversion of database to domain semantics - Temporal reasoning - Knowledge assertion - Code mapping - Analysis - Data mining• SPARQL:- Various types: - Database semantics - Domain Ontology semantics - Data analysis semantics on different levels, e.g. patient and population level- SPARQL endpoint on an EHR DB and CTMS• Reasoning:- Using EYE reasoner: http://eulersharp.sourceforge.net/- Assist reasoner development by extensive rule development and intensive testing, especially for temporal reasoning• Participation in following research projects:- DebugIT: http://www.debugit.eu/- HIT4CLL: http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1210/1210.4405.pdf- Salus: http://www.salusproject.eu/ Show less

Brussel, Belgium

Think tank and generation of funded European projects, especially in the Framework Programme, and Flemish projects (especially IWT); multiple European research project proposals

Gent, Belgium

Arteveldehogeschool is a University college focused on health care, education, graphics, journalism, business management and social work.Generator of funded European projects, especially in the Framework Programme (FP), and national Belgian projects (especially IWT), part-timeE.g. the FP6 project ALLADIN (IST-2002-507242): natural language based decision support software for neuro-rehabilitation

Mariakerke, Belgium

Unstructured Data Management for Human Resource ManagementInformation extraction from CVs, letters, vacancies, and matching CVs and vacancies; for all major European Languages and Dutch

St.-Denijs-Westrem, Belgium

Natural Language Understanding and Processing, especially for medical applicationsSenior Project Manager for funded European Framework Programme (FP) and Flemish IWT projects; 7-10 projects simultaneously; e.g. Mobi-Dev (IST-2000-26402), HOMEY (IST-2000-29243) and INFACE (IST-2001-38187)From medical background support to product management, marketing, business development and R&DEuropean project evaluator for the European Commission FP 5 and 6Expert in speech technology… Show more Natural Language Understanding and Processing, especially for medical applicationsSenior Project Manager for funded European Framework Programme (FP) and Flemish IWT projects; 7-10 projects simultaneously; e.g. Mobi-Dev (IST-2000-26402), HOMEY (IST-2000-29243) and INFACE (IST-2001-38187)From medical background support to product management, marketing, business development and R&DEuropean project evaluator for the European Commission FP 5 and 6Expert in speech technology, implemented in several European projects Show less

Sint-Niklaas, Belgium

Medical CD-ROMs and web site designProduction and project management, medical editingE.g. multimedia CD-ROM “Low Back Pain” ISBN 90-74512-69-0, 2000

Wemmel, Belgium

Start up of the European vertical market for medical dictation applicationsProject management; from medical background support to sales, product management and R&D

Sint-Niklaas, Belgium

Orthopaedic surgery and emergency medicine

Orthopaedic surgery and emergency medicine

Shenyang, China

Start-up management of the rehabilitation centre and Pediatric Orthopaedics; project of the Flemish Government

Semantic Web Technology

Knowledge transfer through multiple seminars, workshops, discussions and online courses

Distinction, C, C++, Visual C, Quality Assurance

Medical Specialty, Orthopaedic Surgery, Traumatology

Activities and Societies: Microsurgery Study Group Subspecialization: Hand Surgery

Doctor, Medicine

Activities and Societies: Medical study group

Bachelor, Physical Therapy

Activities and Societies: Faculty organizing committee