Personalized Specialty Care

Nico van Weert MSc, PhD, is trained in Medical Sociology and did his PhD in 1991 at the Faculty of Medicine of Radboud University (RU) in Nijmegen. He was appointed at the RU for Health Services Research till 1999, when he accepted an assignment to develop a quality and innovation department for one of the largest teaching hospitals in the Netherlands at the time, Atrium Medical Centre. He was responsible for the hospital-wide accreditation, which was achieved in 2003, and for the introduction of new methods, yielding breakthrough results. His work provided the basis for an integrated approach of quality management by medical staff and hospital management. In 2009 he accepted the new planning & control role Manager Quality and Safety and led the development of comprehensive quality reporting by all divisions to the board and the national healthcare inspectorate. In 2009 he founded with colleagues STZ-Zuid, a collaborative on healthcare quality of seven teaching hospitals in the South of the Netherlands, which he has been coordinating till 2016. From 2015 till September 2020 Nico van Weert was coordinator of the NFU-consortium Quality of Care, the collaborative of the eight university medical centres in the Netherlands aiming at improving patient outcomes and experiences. He is an independent advisor on governance and quality.

Jan A. Hazelzet, MD PhD, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. After finishing Polytechnic School in Dordrecht (Technical Physics), Jan Hazelzet studied medicine and received his medical degree from the Erasmus Medical School in Rotterdam and specialized in Pediatrics at the Sophia Childrens Hospital in Rotterdam and in Hopital Necker Enfants Malades in Paris. He has a long clinical experience as Pediatric Intensivist, and Associate-Professor in Pediatrics. He holds a PhD of the Erasmus University on meningococcal sepsis and a Master in Management from the University of Utrecht (USBO).Gradually he moved to the field of information and quality, first in the position of chief medical information officer (CMIO) of Erasmus MC, later as professor in Health Care Quality & Outcome, department of Public Health. Jan supervised more than 20 PhD students and published more than 130 scientific papers. He is the clinical lead of the Value-Based Health Care Program in Erasmus MC and the shift towards a more Patient-Centered Care. Jan is active in several national (NFU) and international projects and consortia (EUHA). Current research interests: patient reported outcome and experience, patient engagement, implementation and effects of value driven health care, healthcare data management and analysis, as well as sustainability in health care.