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MLDS grant Sabine Daemen

MLDS grant Sabine Daemen

15 November 2024

Dr Sabine Daemen (Dept of Internal Medicine) received a Career Development Grant (160k) from the Dutch Digestive Foundation (MLDS).

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Our new Division Leaders

Our new Division Leaders

3 October 2024

As of 1 October 2024, Casper Schalkwijk and Joost Lumens have been appointed as Division Leaders Vessels and Heart. Judith Sluimer will success Hugo ten Cate as Division Leader Blood in March 2025.

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Hans-Peter Brunner-La Rocca

Professor

Prof. Hans-Peter Brunner-La Rocca has graduated in medicine at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He was trained in Internal Medicine and Cardiology in Switzerland. After doing a post-doc in Melbourne, Australia, for two years, he had been working as cardiologist and heart failure specialist in Zurich. In 2002, he moved to Basel, where he was responsible for the heart failure and heart transplant services. He has obtained his lecture qualification both in Zurich and in Basel and was announced as Professor in Basel Switzerland in 2008. Since 2009, he has been working at Maastricht UMC+ as Professor of Clinical Heart Failure. He is head of the heart failure clinic and head of the division of structural heart diseases.

He has been involved in numerous research projects since many years. In particular, he has a special interest in personalised medicine in heart failure using biomarkers and has successfully led international studies related to this topic. In addition, eHealth is an important focus of research. He has published >250 research articles.

He has been working as member of different working groups of the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology and is board member of working group on heart failure in the Netherlands.

On the one hand, he is continuing his research on biomarker in heart failure for therapy guidance. He is collaborating internationally on this topic and is participating in several large international projects in this regard. On the other hand, he is leading an international consortium, aiming to develop a personalized eHealth application to enable patients with heart failure to perform self-care, i.e. including self-prescription of medication. Recently, the consortium received 4.4 M€ to support this project from INTERREG-NWE (budget Maastricht UMC+ > 2.0 M€).

He is additionally involved in national research projects (e.g. heart-brain connection, supported by CVON) and is the local PI of several large industry sponsored RCTs. In one of them, he is the national coordinator for the Netherlands.

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Department of Cardiology
P. Debyelaan 25, 6229 HX Maastricht 
PO Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht
Room number: 3.B2.031
T: +31(0)43 387 70 97

  • 2024
    • Hoen, M., Hofman, D. E., Hompes, B. H. A., Peeters, L. E. E., Langenveld, B., van Kimmenade, R. R. J., Frenken, L. A. M., Lenderink, T., Brunner-La Rocca, H. P., & Sanders-Van Wijk, S. (2024). The role of urine sodium in acutely decompensated heart failure. IJC Heart and Vasculature, 55, Article 101509. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcha.2024.101509
    • Sikking, M. A., Harding, D., Henkens, M. T. H. M., Stroeks, S. L. V. M., Venner, M. F. G. H. M., Nihant, B., van Leeuwen, R. E. W., Fanti, S., Li, X., van Paassen, P., Knackstedt, C., Brunner-la Rocca, H.-P., van Empel, V. P. M., Verdonschot, J. A. J., Marelli-Berg, F. M., & Heymans, S. R. B. (2024). Cytotoxic T-Cells Drive Outcome in Inflammatory Dilated Cardiomyopathy. Circulation Research. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.124.325183
    • Achten, A., van Empel, V. P. M., Weerts, J., Mourmans, S., Beckers-Wesche, F., Spanjers, M., Gingele, A., Brunner-La Rocca, H.-P., Sanders-van Wijk, S., & Knackstedt, C. (2024). Changes in the diagnostic trajectory of transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis over six years. Heart and Vessels, 39(10), 857-866. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00380-024-02408-3
    • Patwala, A., Barker, D., Da Costa, A., Bayard, G., Brunner-La Rocca, H. P., Fontes-Carvalho, R., De la Fuente, L., Goralski, M., Mahon, N. G., Roque, D., Santos, M., Yousef, Z., Ben Hamouda, H., Teal, M., Christory, F., Ahmed, F. Z., & Mebazaa, A. (2024). Optimizing heart failure pathways to enhance patient care: the Program to Optimize Heart Failure Patient Pathways (PRO-HF). Esc heart failure, 11(5), 2578-2590. https://doi.org/10.1002/ehf2.14911
    • Caiani, E. G., Kemps, H., Hoogendoorn, P., Asteggiano, R., Bohm, A., Borregaard, B., Boriani, G., Brunner La Rocca, H.-P., Casado-Arroyo, R., Castelletti, S., Christodorescu, R. M., Cowie, M. R., Dendale, P., Dunn, F., Fraser, A. G., Lane, D. A., Locati, E. T., Malaczynska-Rajpold, K., Mersa, C. O., ... Szymanski, P. (2024). Standardized assessment of evidence supporting the adoption of mobile health solutions: A Clinical Consensus Statement of the ESC Regulatory Affairs Committee. European Heart Journal - Digital Health, 5(5), 509-523. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjdh/ztae042
    • Allach, Y., de Jong, M. B.-L., Clephas, P. R. D., van Gent, M. W. F., Brunner-La Rocca, H.-P., Szymanski, M. K., van Halm, V. P., Handoko, M. L., Kok, W. E. M., Asselbergs, F. W., van Kimmenade, R. R. J., Manintveld, O. C., van Mieghem, N. M. D. A., Beeres, S. L. M. A., Rienstra, M., Post, M. C., van Heerebeek, L., Borleffs, C. J. W., Tukkie, R., ... Brugts, J. J. (2024). Serial cardiac biomarkers, pulmonary artery pressures and traditional parameters of fluid status in relation to prognosis in patients with chronic heart failure: Design and rationale of the BioMEMS study. European journal of heart failure, 26(8), 1736-1744. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejhf.3303
    • Malgie, J., Wilde, M. I., Clephas, P. R. D., Emans, M. E., Koudstaal, S., Schaap, J., Mosterd, A., van Ramshorst, J., Wardeh, A. J., van Wijk, S., van den Heuvel, M., Wierda, E., Borleffs, C. J. W., Saraber, C., Beeres, S. L. M. A., van Kimmenade, R., Jansen Klomp, W., Denham, R., da Fonseca, C. A., ... Brugts, J. J. (2024). Contemporary guideline-directed medical therapy in de novo, chronic, and worsening heart failure patients: First data from the TITRATE-HF study. European journal of heart failure, 26(7), 1549-1560. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejhf.3267
    • Starmans, N. L. P., Wolters, F. J., Leeuwis, A. E., Bron, E. E., de Bresser, J., Brunner-La Rocca, H. P., Staals, J., Muller, M., Biessels, G. J., Kappelle, L. J., & Heart-Brain Connection Consortium (2024). Orthostatic hypotension, cognition and structural brain imaging in hemodynamically impaired patients. Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 461, Article 123026. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2024.123026
    • Nebhwani, M., Chaibekava, K., Achten, A., Oerlemans, M. I. F. J., Michels, M., van der Meer, P., Nienhuis, H. L. A., Weerts, J., van Empel, V., Rocca, H. P. B. L., Wijk, S. S. V., van der Pol, J., & Knackstedt, C. (2024). Detection of cardiac amyloidosis on routine bone scintigraphy: an important gatekeeper role for the nuclear medicine physician. International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging, 40(6), 1183-1192. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10554-024-03085-z
    • Clephas, P. R. D., Zwartkruis, V. W., Malgie, J., van Gent, M. W. F., Brunner-La Rocca, H. P., Szymanski, M. K., van Halm, V. P., Handoko, M. L., Kok, W., Asselbergs, F. W., van Kimmenade, R., Manintveld, O., van Mieghem, N. M. D. A., Beeres, S. L. M. A., Post, M. C., Borleffs, C. J. W., Tukkie, R., Mosterd, A., Linssen, G. C. M., ... Brugts, J. J. (2024). Pulmonary artery pressure monitoring in chronic heart failure: effects across clinically relevant subgroups in the MONITOR-HF trial. European Heart Journal, 45(32), 2954-2964. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehae323
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