Ewout Steyerberg is professor of Clinical Biostatistics and Medical Decision Making at Leiden University Medical Center and Erasmus MC (Rotterdam, the Netherlands). He has been chairing the department of Biomedical Data Sciences since 2017. He was a Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Society for Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He spent sabbaticals at Duke University (Durham, NC: 1996) en Harvard University (Boston, MA: 2003 and 2005).

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Ewout Steyerberg is professor of Clinical Biostatistics and Medical Decision Making at Leiden University Medical Center and Erasmus MC (Rotterdam, the Netherlands). He has been chairing the department of Biomedical Data Sciences since 2017. He was a Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Society for Arts and Sciences (KNAW). He spent sabbaticals at Duke University (Durham, NC: 1996) en Harvard University (Boston, MA: 2003 and 2005).

Biomedical Data Sciences

The department of Biomedical Data Sciences consists of 4 research sections. Advanced Data Management (ADM) is focused on high quality data acquisition and data management; Molecular Epidemiology is focused on unravelling biological mechanisms, including rheumatology and ageing; Medical Statistics is focused on the development and application of biostatistical methods; and Medical Decision Making is focused on the description and evaluation of medical decisions. Professor Steyerberg is primarily involved with the latter 2 sections (Medical Statistics and Medical Decision Making). His research concentrates on prediction. He has applied advanced regression analysis and related techniques in many clinical domains. Areas of interest include biostatistics, cost-effectiveness, and decision analysis. Contemporary research themes have his attention, including comparative effectiveness, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning, Value-based Health Care, and Precision Medicine.

Professor Steyerberg’s methodological research concentrates on the role of prediction models and randomized clinical trials for better decision making in individual patients.

Academic career

1985-86: Medicine, Leiden University
1986-91: MSc, Biomedical Sciences, Leiden University (cum laude)
1996: PhD Erasmus University Rotterdam, “Prognostic modelling for clinical decision making” https://repub.eur.nl/pub/22495/
1996: sabbatical at Duke University, Durham, NC
2003 and 2005: sabbaticals at Dana Farber / Harvard Cancer Center, Boston, MA
2006: professor of Medical Decision Making, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam; inaugural address: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/13237/
2017: professor of Clinical Biostatistics and Medical Decision Making, LUMC, Leiden

Read E.Steyerberg's book here:
Clinical Prediction Models: A Practical Approach to Development, Validation, and Updating

Prizes and honourable appointments

Feb 1991 cum laude MSc Biomedical Sciences at Leiden University, The Netherlands
1995 Society for Medical Decision Making: student prize
1996 ‘TALENT stipendium’ from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (‘NWO’) for a                research at Duke University, Durham, NC
1999-2003 Fellowship from the Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences
2005 Marx Research fellowship from Dana-Farber/ Harvard Cancer Center, Boston, MA
2016 John M. Eisenberg Award for Practical Application of Medical Decision Making Research by the Society for Medical Decision Making
2019 Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences 
2021 Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts 
 

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