My Curriculum Vitae

Personal

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1968Born in Haarlem
1996Married to Jacqueline Deurloo

Education and Work

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1974-1980Primary school ("Basisschool"): Bos en Duinschool
1980-1986Secondary school ("Gymnasium β"): Christelijk College "Marnix van St. Aldegonde"
Exams in Dutch, English, German, Latin, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology
1986-1992Applied Physics at Delft University
Doctoral internship at dept of Experimental Echocardiography, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Thesis "The ultrasonic, nonlinear behaviour of encapsulated gas-filled bubbles"
1992-1996Scientific programmer at dept of Medical Informatics, Erasmus University Rotterdam
1996-1998Software Engineer at dept of Medical Informatics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam
Since 1998Assistant Professor at dept of Medical Informatics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam
2000-2006PhD student at dept of Medical Informatics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam
Thesis "Methods for auditing medical terminological systems"
Since 2007Consultant for the Dutch ICT institute in health care (Nictiz) on “preparing implementation of SNOMED CT in the Netherlands”

Project involvement

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1994-1996I4C "Integration and Communication for the Continuity of Cardiac Care" (# 1041), supported by Fourth Framework Programme on Health Telematics C/7 of DG XIII, European Community, Brussels.
2000-2004Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) program “Information & Communication Technology in Healthcare” (ICZ), project # 014-18-014 “Terminology and Semantics: Making semantics explicit”
2004-2007Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) program "ToKen2000", project # 634.000.020 "I-Catcher: Intensive-Care Access to Terminology & Course of Health Exploration and Retrieval"
2006-NephroQUEST Initiative, supported by the EU Public Health Programme (DG SANCO)

Program committees

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2004-2006WONTO: Workshop on Ontologies and their Applications (Brazil)
2004-2008KR-MED: Workshop on Knowledge Representation in Biomedicine
2006FCTC: Workshop on Foundations of Clinical Terminologies and Classifications
2008MIC: Medisch Informatica Congres

Editorial board and Reviews

Memberships

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2003-2004Co-chair of AMIA Student Working Group
2006-2007Member of AMIA Education committee
2003- Co-chair of AMIA Working group on Formal (Bio-)Medical Knowledge Representation
2006-Board member / vice-chairman of the Dutch Society for Health Care Informatics (VMBI)
2007-Member of the Dutch HL7 technical committee "Health and Clinical"
2007-Member of the Netherlands' Society of Anesthesiologists (NVA) working group "Minimal Dataset pre-operative assessment"
2007-Member of the Dutch Norm Committee 303006 "Informatievoorziening in de zorg"
2007-Member of the AMC selection committee for the Amsterdam Merit Scholarships programme (AMS)
2007-Member of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) Quality Assurance Committee
2008-Chair of the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organisation (IHTSDO) Implementation Special Interest Group
2009-Member of the AMC committee on qualification in education

Publications

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1992-See Publications

Teaching

Accredited AMC-teacher (as of June 11th, 2007)
Basic qualification in education (October 15th, 2008)
See "Education-related CV"

PhD Thesis Committees

2008-09-05 Zharko Aleksovski - Using background knowledge in ontology matching

Award

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2005Distinguished Paper Award, AMIA 2005, "Two DL-based Methods for Auditing Medical Terminological Systems"