Decision Modeling Center - VUMC

14/09/2020

We are happy to welcome Robine Donken in the DMC team. Her research focusses on optimizing cervical cancer screening through risk-based strategies. She is also the program manager for the European consortium for Risk-based cervical cancer screening.

Our team consists of experts from a range of fields, including mathematics, statistics, epidemiology, medical informatics, health and biomedical sciences.

10/08/2020

We received positive news that the project “Towards patient-led follow-up after curative treatment of stage II and III CRC”, led by Veerle Coupé (Amsterdam UMC) and Hans de Wilt (RadboudMC), was granted in the ZONMW program “Zorgevaluatie en Gepast Gebruik”.
This project aims to develop a protocol for patient-centered follow-up for curatively treated stage II and III colorectal cancer patients, in which the intensity and setting of follow-up is adapted to the need and individual risk of the patient.

Mid July, we received positive news from ZONMW that the project “Towards patient-led follow-up after curative treatment of stage II and III CRC”, led by Veerle Coupé (Amsterdam UMC) and Hans de Wilt (RadboudMC), was granted in the program “Zorgevaluatie en Gepast Gebruik”. This project aims...

28/05/2020

This recently published DMC paper describes the development and validation of a decision model for the evaluation of strategies to improve the selection of stage II colon cancer patients who benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy.

The study entitled “Modeling Personalized Adjuvant TreaTment in EaRly stage coloN cancer (PATTERN)” has been published in the European Journal of Health Economics. This study describes the development of a decision model for the population-level evaluation of strategies to improve the selection ...

27/01/2020

The latest DMC publication shows that in stage I non-small cel lung cancer, stereotactic body radiation therapy dominates video assisted thoracic surgery in the majority of model simulations https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lungcan.2020.01.011

13/09/2019

The DMC welcomes Francine van Wifferen as part of the team

FRANCINE VAN WIFFEREN Francine van Wifferen studied Biomedical Sciences and received her MSc degree with specializations in Epidemiology and Health Technology Assessment at the Radboud university in Nijmegen. She is currently working as a PhD student on the ASCCA project at the VU University medical...

03/09/2019

The latest DMC publication presents the most recent pooled estimate of the impact of adjuvant chemotherapy in stage II colon cancer patients

A new publication by Jongeneel et al. from the DMC entitled “Estimating adjuvant treatment effects in stage II colon cancer: comparing the synthesis of randomized clinical trial data to real world data” has recently been published in the International Journal of Cancer. Background of our study T...

17/07/2019

We have a vacancy for a postdoc 'Cost-effectiveness analysis and data envelopment analysis in the field of pathology'

Job description: For the ZonMw PATH project, there is a vacancy for a postdoc for one year starting no later than January 2020. The postdoc should ...

26/06/2019

We have a vacancy for a PhD student | early health techonology assessment of circulating tumor DNA in oncology

Your challenge We are looking for a PhD student in the field of health technology assessment (HTA)/health economics and cost-effectiveness modelling to study different aspects related to successful implementation of cell-free circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) testing in the clinic. By measuring minute a...

12/06/2019

The DMC team attended the International Cancer Screening Network (ICSN) conference on 'Screening in balance'.

The 2019 International Cancer Screening Network (ICSN) Conference took place in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on the 3-5 June. The Decision Modeling Center (DMC) team was well represented at the ICSN. The theme of this year was “Screening in Balance”, emphasizing the importance of continuously wei...

27/05/2019

Seven DMC experts have visited the lolaHESG for lively discussions on health economics

This year, the 11th edition of the lowlands Health Economic Study Group (lolaHESG) conference took place in Almen. This conference focusses on research in the field of health technology assessment (HTA). Seven experts of the DMC team attended the lolaHESG. Key note speaker The keynote lecture was gi...

26/04/2019

A new expert, Arenda Mank, has joined the DMC team. She will be doing her PhD on the ADDITION project which focuses on individuals with Alzheimer's disease

Arenda Mank Arenda Mank studied medicine at the Leiden University. She is currently doing a PhD at the VUmc Alzheimercenter on the ADDITION project, in collaboration with the department of epidemiology and biostatistics. The aim of this project is to assess the disease trajectories, care pathways an...

18/04/2019

This book, authored by Dr. Marieke ter Wee and Dr. Birgit Lissenberg-Witte (Decision Modeling Center), has recently been published.

A new book entitled “A Quick Guide on How to Conduct Medical Research – from set-up to publication”, authored by Dr. Marieke ter Wee and Dr. Birgit Lissenberg-Witte (Decision Modeling Center), has recently been published by Bohn-Stafleu-van Lochem (Houten). The book is an essential guide on ho...