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Eindhoven Area, Netherlands

Leading the clinical study program for FORS Technology, a break-through innovative technology in a start-up environment in the field of image guided therapy, specifically endovascular surgery. Key areas of responsibilities:Evidence Generation: Evidence development strategy Study roadmap Data management owner: extracting & interpreting, process improvement Coordination with KOLs / working groups to generate papersStudy Program Infrastructure management Quality: Study procedure owner Quality: audit support / follow up Clinical contract owner Study Program Execution Study budget & resource management Study design & protocols Manage Clinical Operations Site selection, contracting, initiation, monitoring, etc Study database & statistics

Maastricht Area, Netherlands

European Clinical Study lead on a global project partnering with marketing to test the functionality and user-experience of a mobile application for remote monitoring. Responsibilities include:- Project management (~12 hospitals in 4 countries) within Europe - Pioneering new framework for digital data collection- Practical implementation of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). - Interaction with Key Opinion Leaders- Budgetting / resource allocation - Travelling to several countries for support, conferences, and organizing meetings

Maastricht Area, Netherlands

Study manager on the global study team of a large (~200 hospitals) ongoing global Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) study in patients with heart failure. My responsibilities include: - Site-management (~50 hospitals in 8 countries) within Europe and the Middle East, - Managing the endpoint adjudication committee (Heart Failure Key Opinion Leaders) - Improving efficiency and data quality within the trial. - Travelling to several countries for support, conferences, and organizing meetings - Supporting audits and external inspections (especially Germany) 2017 - winner Medtronic CHRF Clinical Research All-Star Award

“Therapeutic roles of muscle metabolism and lipid accumulation in type 2 diabetes”The project was aimed to determine the role of muscle metabolism in the development and treatment of type 2 diabetes. Advanced techniques such as MR spectroscopy (in MRI scanner), High-resolution spectroscopy and computer modelling were primarily used for my research. Project design, experiments, publications and tutoring of students were part of my daily responsibilities.

Joint project between the university (TU/e) and AstraZeneca titled:“Validation of therapeutic efficacy of agents for muscle disease using MR spectroscopy”My responsibilities included project design, submissions Swedish and Dutch animal ethical committees, performing MRI experiments, data analysis and result presentation.

“Clinical determinants of exercise intolerance in chronic heart failure”This was a clinical study in collaboration with the Maxima Medical Centre to find better determinants to assess daily life functioning of patients with chronic heart failure. This research led to 2 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

“Viscoelastic response of hair as a diagnostic tool for diabetes”Job description:Performing mechanical testing and developing a data-modelling tool in Matlab PresentPresent and report the results

Job responsibilities:Making fibre-enforced polyHEMA hydrogels and testing mechanical properties. Supervisor of 1st year students during tensile experiments.

Master Of Engineering (Meng), Biomedische Technologie

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Vwo, High School