Dr. J.T. van der Steen

Nominated by

• The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
• AcademiaNet member since 04.09.2012
• AcademiaNet- Selection Criteria

Employed by

• Leiden University Medical Center

Further professional affiliations (employer name only)

• Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Academic Discipline/Fields

• Health and welfare

Field

Engineering and engineering trades , Health

Area of specialisation

Palliative care; end of life; decision making; advance care planning; dementia; geriatrics; nursing homes; epidemiology; research methodology, quality and reporting

Research interests

• Research methodology: my goal is to generate the best possible evidence in a challenging field of research where experimental work is not always possible.

• Further, a thread in my academic output is conceptual clarification using formal scientific methods when helpful to advance the research.

• My expertise covers the design and performance of experimental and observational studies; prospective and retrospective studies; quantitative and qualitative studies; surveys and interviews; evidence based guideline development and development of consensus; cross-national comparative work with pooled and individual patient data.

Distinctions and Awards

• Career award from the European Research Council (ERC), Consolidator grant, November 2017. https://erc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/document/file/erc_2017_cog_results_all_domains.pdf

• Career award from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research NWO, Innovational Research Incentives Scheme, Vidi, November 2010.

  + Aspasia supplement, 2012 and 2013

• The EAPC Young Investigators Award 2009, European Association of Palliative Care: awarded the first prize out of 18 nominees for outstanding contributions to palliative care, Vienna, Austria, 2009

• Best poster award for poster presentation Benefits of collaboration in palliative care research even when started after data-collection: pooling of existing datasets, at the Research Forum of the European Association for Palliative Care, Venice, Italy, 2006 (third prize; total of 360 posters)

• Career award from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO Innovational Research Incentives Scheme, Veni), 2005

• Best work in public health in the Netherlands, Annual award from the Vereniging voor Volksgezondheid en Wetenschap: Volksgezondheidsprijs 2001, for dissertation

• Three travel grants; to Bedford, US in 1996, and 2006, and to both Bedford US, and Missouri and Bedford, US in 1998 (Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, NWO)

Interested in

• Membership in scientific bodies, Professorship

Languages

Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian

Doctorate

• 2002: Curative or palliative treatment of pneumonia in patients with dementia

PostDoc qualification, e.g. Habilitation

• 1998: Epidemiologist