Cross-Border Collaboration in Healthcare.
Project Team
The TIMELY consortium, under the leadership of the University of Amsterdam, consists of 13 project members from all across Europe, working collaboratively to advance healthcare innovation through shared expertise and diverse perspectives.
Project Team
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Dr. Jos Bosch, Project Coordinator
Affiliation University of Amsterdam Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences Programme group Clinical Psychology
Position Associate Professor, Department of Psychology (Clinical Psychology)
Research Topics Psychobiology of medical disorders, Biobehavioral pathways linking wellbeing and health, Data Science and AI approaches to behavioral assessment and modification, Non-invasive psychophysiological assessment using salivary diagnostics
Tasks Project Management (WP 7)
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PD Dr. rer. nat. Boris Schmitz
Affiliation 1) Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Health, University of Witten/Herdecke, Witten, Germany 2) DRV Clinic Königsfeld, Center for Medical Rehabilitation, Ennepetal, Germany
Position Principal Investigator and Head of Laboratory
Research Topics Exercise and Sports Sciences, Cardiovascular Disease, Prevention, Rehabilitation
Tasks Living Lab for iterative codesign (WP 1)
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Dr. Mirela Habibovic
Affiliation Tilburg University, Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology
Position Assistant Professor
Topics Psychosocial functioning and ehealth enabled health behavior change in people with cardiovascular disease
Tasks Evaluation of the Timely intervention (WP5)
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Prof. Dr. med. Frank C. Mooren
Affiliation 1) Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Health, University of Witten/Herdecke, Witten, Germany 2) DRV Clinic Königsfeld, Center for Medical Rehabilitation, Ennepetal, Germany
Position Medical Director, Head of Department of Rehabilitation Sciences
Research Topics Immunology, Exercise and Sports Sciences, Cardiovascular Disease, Prevention, Rehabilitation
Tasks Living Lab for iterative codesign (WP 1)
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Prof. Dr. Willem J. Kop
Affiliation Tilburg University: Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology, Center of Research on Psychological disorders and Somatic diseases, the Netherlands
Position Professor of Medical and Clinical Psychology, Center of Research on Psychological Disorders and Somatic Diseases, Tilburg University, the Netherlands
Research Topic Interaction of acute and chronic responses to psychological and physical challenges with biological processes relevant to cardiovascular disease
Tasks Oversight ofclinical work packages
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Dmitris Gatsios
Affiliation Capemed
Position Chief Operating Officer
Research Topics Machine learning models for risk prediction, exploring factors that affect CR adherence and efficacy, reinforcement learning models for exercise prescription and optimization
Tasks Supporting the coordinator and the partners, taking care of quality control and risk management, being the collaboration and communication channel with all beneficiaries (WP 3 and WP 7)
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Roberto Belke
Affiliation BIOTRONIK
Position Managing Director Germany, Vice President Marketing & Sales
Research Topics Digitization in healthcare, business development, customer experience
Tasks Communication, dissemination and exploitation (WP6)
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Dr. Dorota Lepianka, Project Manager
Affiliation University of Amsterdam
Position Project Management
Tasks Project management (WP 7)
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David Cantarero Prieto
Affiliation University of Cantabria - IDIVAL
Position Associate Professor and head of the research group on Health Economics and Health Services Management
Research Topics Health Economics, Public Economics, Economics of Ageing e-Health evaluation, HTA
Tasks Health Technology Assessment (HTA) (T 5.5)
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Manuela Sestayo Fernández
Affiliation Healthcare Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (IDIS)
Position Research Nurse, Local Study Coordinator
Research Topics Cardiac Rehabilitation and preventive cardiology, Cardiovascular Nursing, Clinical Cardiology, Innovation in Healthcare
Tasks Risk prediction with AI (WP2, Task 2.1), TIMELY-Net Platform (WP4, Task 4.3), TIMELY intervention (WP5, Tasks 5.3 and 5.4)
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Assoc. Prof. Hubert Scharnagl, PhD
Affiliation Clinical Institute of Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics, Medical University of Graz
Position Head of research group Lipid and Lipoprotein Analysis
Research Topics Lipid and lipoprotein metabolism, biomarkers in cardiovascular disease, pathobiochemistry of lipid disorders
Tasks Analysis of blood samples for the determination of the CoroPredict score in the TIMELY prospective studies (WP1 and WP5)
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Lidia Sánchez Ruiz
Affiliation University of Cantabria - IDIVAL
Position Associate Professor
Research Topics Continuous improvement; Logistics; Operations Management Economic evaluation
Tasks Health Technology Assessment (HTA) – Task 5.5
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Paloma Lanza León
Affiliation University of Cantabria - IDIVAL
Position Postdoctoral researcher
Research Topics Health economics; Public economics; Economic evaluation
Tasks Health Technology Assessment (HTA) – Task 5.5
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Javier Lera
Affiliation Valdecilla Biomedical Research Institute - IDIVAL
Position Postdoctoral researcher
Research Topics Health economics; HTA; e-Health evaluation; Economics of Ageing; Social determinants of health
Tasks Health Technology Assessment (HTA) – Task 5.5
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Jose Maria de la Torre
Affiliation Hospital Universitario Marques de Valdecilla
Position Head of Interventional Cardiology Unit and Research coordinator of Cardiology Department
Research Topics Intravascular imaging, Left Main Coronary Artery disease, PCI outcomes, TAVR procedures
Tasks Clinical consultant for the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) – Task 5.5
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Carla Blázquez-Fernández
Affiliation University of Cantabria - IDIVAL
Position Assistant Professor
Research Topics Public Economics and Health Economics
Tasks Health Technology Assessment (HTA) – Task 5.5
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Dr. Carlos Peña Gil
Affiliation 1) University Hospital of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (CHUS) 2) Healthcare Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (IDIS). 3) Dilemma Solutions, SL.
Position 1) Clinical cardiologist specialized in cardiac imaging 2) Principal investigator and collaborating investigator in various projects, 3) Co-founder of Dilemma Solutions, SL.
Research Topics Cardiac Rehabilitation and preventive cardiology, Clinical cardiology, Cardiac Imaging, Clinical decision support systems, Artificial intelligence, Knowledge management, Precision medicine, Innovation in Healthcare
Tasks Risk prediction with AI (WP2, Task 2.1), TIMELY-Net Platform (WP4, Task 4.3), TIMELY intervention (WP5, Tasks 5.3 and 5.4)
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Dr. Violeta González Salvado
Affiliation 1) University Hospital of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (CHUS) 2) Healthcare Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (IDIS)
Position 1) Clinical cardiologist specialized in cardiac imaging 2) Principal investigator and collaborating investigator in various projects
Research Topics Cardiac Rehabilitation and preventive cardiology, Clinical cardiology, Cardiac Imaging, Precision medicine, Innovation in Healthcare
Tasks Risk prediction with AI (WP2, Task 2.1), TIMELY-Net Platform (WP4, Task 4.3), TIMELY intervention (WP5, Tasks 5.3 and 5.4)
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Dr. José Ramón González Juanatey
Affiliation 1) University Hospital of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (CHUS) 2) University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Position 1) Head of Cardiology Department and clinical cardiologist 2) Professor in medicine
Research Topics General cardiology, Traslational cardiology, Cardiac Rehabilitation and preventive cardiology, Clinical cardiology, Innovation in Healthcare, Healthcare management
Tasks Risk prediction with AI (WP2, Task 2.1), TIMELY-Net Platform (WP4, Task 4.3), TIMELY intervention (WP5, Tasks 5.3 and 5.4)
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Marta Alonso Vázquez
Affiliation Healthcare Research Institute of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (IDIS)
Position Data Manager
Research Topics Cardiac Rehabilitation and preventive cardiology, Innovation in Healthcare
Tasks Risk prediction with AI (WP2, Task 2.1), TIMELY-Net Platform (WP4, Task 4.3), TIMELY intervention (WP5, Tasks 5.3 and 5.4)
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Joaquín Cayon de las Cuevas
Affiliation IDIVAL - Consejería de Sanidad de Cantabria
Position Head of the Research Group on Health Law & Bioethics
Research Topics Patients’ rights, healthcare systems, medical liability, artificial intelligence, eHealth and data protection
Tasks Legal and ethical consultant for the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) – Task 5.5
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Dr. Martin Schmidt
Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Engineering, TU Dresden, Germany
Position Head of Biosignal Processing Group
Research Topics ECG Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Smart Implants, Sleep Research, Biosignal Processing, Medical Sensing
Tasks Automated atrial fibrillation detection based on Electrocardiograms (T2.3)
Our PhD Students
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Emma Douma
Affiliation Tilburg University
Position PhD student
Research Topics Behaviour change techniques, Psychological predictors of behaviour change
Task Developing a behaviour change approach, testing the app in a randomized controlled trial
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Hendrik Schäfer, M.Sc.
Affiliation 1 Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Health, University of Witten/Herdecke, Witten; 2 DRV Clinic Königsfeld, Center for Medical Rehabilitation, Ennepetal
Position Research Associate, PhD Student
Research Topics Cardiorespiratory fitness, Hemodynamics, Physical activity/Sedentary lifestyle
Tasks Defining preventive cardiology in a Living Lab (WP 1), Living Lab for iterative codesign (T1.1 ), Prospective Study for building the TIMELY data lake (T1.3), RCT studies (T5.4), WP 5
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Mona Kotewitsch
Affiliation Department of Rehabilitation Sciences, University of Witten/Herdecke Clinic Königsfeld, Center for Medical Rehabilitation, Ennepetal
Position Research Associate, PhD student
Research Topics Cardiac self efficacy, cardiorespiratory fitness
Tasks Defining preventive cardiology in a Living Lab (WP 1), creating Information parts for the “Get education” section
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Xin Sun
Affiliation University of Amsterdam
Position Research Associate, PhD Student
Research Topics Conversational agents for health behavior intervention, human-agent interaction, trust of generative AI for healthcare
Tasks Development of the conversational agents for health behavior intervention, empathy and reflection generation for health behavior intervention (T3.2)
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Konstantina-Helen Tsarapatsani
Affiliation Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas
Position Research Associate, PhD Student
Research Topics Analysis and processing of big data, Artificial Intelligence models for risk prediction and diagnosis of cardiovascular disease, Genomics in cardiovascular disease
Tasks Predictive modeling in cardiac rehabilitation using artificial intelligence and machine learning methods (T2.1), Upgraded CoroPredict score (T2.2)
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Alexander Hammer, Dipl.-Wi.-Ing.
Affiliation Institute of Biomedical Engineering, TU Dresden
Position Research Associate, PhD Student
Research Topics Automated anomaly detection in biosignals, ECG processing, biosignal processing, artificial intelligence, biomedical engineering
Tasks T2.3: Automated atrial fibrillation detection based on Electrocardiograms