Maroeska Rovers#
Membership Number: | 4594 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
Elected: | 2017 |
Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
Homepage(s): | http://http://www.rihs.nl/about-us/our-people/RIHSPi?pi=10717 |
Present and Previous Positions
- April 2012 Professor of Evidence-Based Surgery (0.9 fte), Departments of operating rooms and Health Evidence, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Feb. 2011 – April 2012 Associate professor in Evidence-Based Surgery and Clinical Epidemiology, Departments of operating rooms and Health Evidence, Radboudumc Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- Jan. 2002– Jan. 2011 Assistant and associate professor in Clinical Epidemiology (0.9 fte), Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care and Department of Otolaryngology, University Medical Center Utrecht
- Jan. – December 2001 Post-doc (1.0 fte), Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University Medical Center Nijmegen
- April – December 2000 Post-doc (1.0 fte), MRC Institute of Hearing Research, Nottingham, UK
Fields of Scholarship
- Randomised clinical trials
- Research methodology
- Clinical epidemiology
- Evidence-based surgery
- Individual-patient data meta-analyses
- Health-economics
Honours and Awards
- 2016 Principal Investigator (PI) and junior Principal Lecturer (jPL) at the Radboudumc, the Netherlands since 2013
- 2014 Invited as visiting professor on evidence-based surgery at the University of Oxford
- 2014 Invited to be one of the four high tech hero’s at the Hannover Messe (world's leading trade fair for industrial technology)
- 2011 Hypatia tenure track fellowship (1 million euro).
- 2008 Elisabeth von Freyburg award every 2 year to the most promising young researcher of the University Medical Center Utrecht
- 2003 Prize for the best thesis over the period 1999-2002, ATZE Spoor Foundation.
- Membership
- From 2016: International Scientific Collaboration Excite International, with the aim to guide new innovations in medical technology for the healthcare system by facilitating teamwork and partnerships within the global scientific community
- From 2014: Member of the worldwide IDEAL collaboration, an initiative to improve the quality of research in surgery
- From 2003: Various functions within the Cochrane collaboration, a global independent network with collaborators from over 120 countries working together to produce credible, accessible health information:
- Co-convener of the IPD meta-analysis methods group (http://ipdmamg.cochrane.org)
- Associate editor of the Cochrane ENT group (http://ent.cochrane.org)
- Diagnostic Test Accuracy review editor (http://srdta.cochrane.org)