Assistant Professor
University Medical Center Groningen
Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Job van Boven is a health economics & real-world drug outcomes expert specialised in lung diseases. He is the founding director of the Medication Adherence Expertise Center Of the northern Netherlands (MAECON) and Chair of the European Network to Advance Best Practices & Technology on Medication Adherence (ENABLE) COST Action. He is Assistant Professor of Cost-effective Drug Utilization (in Dutch: Doelmatig Geneesmiddelgebruik) at the University Medical Center Groningen and Principal Investigator at the Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD (GRIAC).
He obtained his PharmD and PhD at the University of Groningen (The Netherlands), where his thesis focused on the cost-effectiveness of adherence enhancing interventions in patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD). After his PhD research, he completed fellowships at the University of Colorado (USA), Monash University (Australia) and the Hospital Universitario Son Espases (Spain).
He is (co)author of >100 scientific publications, current supervisor of 9 PhD students and received several research prices & grants (including two EU grants, totalling>€3 million). Having interest and wide experience in both medication adherence and health economic methods, his mission is to find novel, cost-effective ways to make better, personalized use of our respiratory medications in order to maximize both patients’ and societal benefits. Amongst others, his research aims to provide means to accelerate implementation of digital medication technologies (smart inhalers, bottles and blisters) in daily clinical practice.
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Wednesday, August 24, 2022
2:00 PM – 6:00 PM CEST
Friday, August 26, 2022
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM CEST