| Name: |
A.W. (Arno) Hoes |
| Function: |
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology & General Practice |
| Department: |
Management team |
| E-mail address: |
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| Phone number: |
+31 (0) 88 75 681 93 |
| Fax number: |
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| Visiting address: |
UMC Utrecht
Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care
Str.6.131
PO Box 85500
3508 GA Utrecht
The Netherlands |
Biographical sketch:
Arno W. Hoes (1958) studied medicine at the Catholic University Nijmegen and graduated in 1986. From 1987 he worked at the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, where he was trained in clinical epidemiology. He obtained his PhD degree in 1992. In 1991 he was appointed assistant professor of clinical epidemiology and general practice at both the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics and the Department of General Practice at the Erasmus Medical Center. At the latter department he headed the research line “Cardiovascular disease in primary care”. In 1996, he moved to the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care of the University Medical Center in Utrecht, where he was appointed professor of Clinical Epidemiology and General Practice in 1998.
Interests and focus:
His clinical research topics include the diagnosis, prognosis and therapeutic interventions in cardiovascular disease (mainly heart failure and coronary heart disease) as well as preventive cardiology.
His teaching experience includes courses on study design, clinical epidemiology, diagnostic research, drug risk assessment and cardiovascular disease. Since 1998 he is a member of the Dutch Medicines Evaluation Board.
He has (co-)authored around 300 papers in peer-reviewed journals and is a member of several editorial boards, including the European Journal of Heart Failure and scientific committees in the Netherlands and abroad.