About Me
Annemieke Witteveen is Assistant Professor at the Biomedical Signals and Systems (BSS) group and the Personalized eHealth Technology (PeHT) research program. Her research line focusses on building dynamic patient-level models for personalized prediction, monitoring and optimization to support clinical decision making in oncology. See also her interview as a featured scientist.
She studied Technical Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Twente. After graduation, Annemieke started working as a PhD at the department of Health Technology and Services Research (HTSR) at the University of Twente. Here she worked on individualizing the breast cancer follow-up based on individual time-dependent risk profiles, resulting in a.o. the INFLUENCE nomogram. Her thesis received the prize for best oncology thesis in the Netherlands of 2018/2019.
As PI, Annemieke coordinates several large projects on self-management and decision support for oncology, such as the KWF PARTNR project for optimal cancer-related fatigue treatment and the €6.32M 4TU research program RECENTRE on lifestyle and risk-based monitoring. In 2020 she was awarded a NWO/ZonMW veni grant for researching dynamic models to predict, monitor and make recommendations for the late effects after breast cancer. She was selected as Young Academy member of the University of Twente in 2022. Additionally, Annemieke was awarded with the Royal Academy of Science (KNAW) Early Career Award for innovative and original research (2022) and the Henk Stassen Award for connecting medical and technical sciences (2023). Annemieke is married and has three kids.
WORK EXPERIENCE
2022 Visiting researcher, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Harvard University, Boston, USA)
2022 Visiting researcher, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (NY, USA)
2021-present Assistant Professor, Biomedical Signals and Systems, Personalized eHealth Technology (PeHT) research program (University of Twente)
2019-present Coordinator Health and Wellbeing track, Digital Society reseach program (University of Twente/VSNU)
2019-2021 Postdoctoral researcher, Biomedical Signals and Systems group, Personalized eHealth Technology (PeHT) research program (University of Twente)
2015 Visiting researcher, Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN)
2013-2018 PhD student, Health Technology and Services Research (University of Twente)
GRANTS AND PRIZES
2023 - Henk Stassen Award for bringing medical and technical science together (€1k, Biomedical Engineering conference)
2022 - Early Career Award (€15k, Royal Academy of Science [KNAW])
2022 - 4TU program RECENTRE: Risk-based lifEstyle Change: daily-lifE moNiToring and REcommendations (€6.32M, 4TU) – Project Leader
2022 - Selected as member of the Young Academy (YA@UT)
2021 - Rene Vogels Foundation Travel Grant, Harvard (USA) (€5k, Dutch Society for Oncology, NVvO)
2021 – Project sponsoring ‘Better informed, better care: Optimizing cancer information based on individual patient preferences’ (€324k, Pfizer/Roche/UT) – Project Leader
2020 - Veni Grant ‘Towards a higher quality of life after cancer: dynamic prediction, monitoring and recommendations for late effects after breast cancer’ (€250k, Dutch Research Council [NOW]/ Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development [ZonMW]) – Project Leader
2019 - Best Thesis in Oncology Prize of the Netherlands and Belgium in 2018/2019 (Dutch and Flemish organizations for medical oncology, NVMO/BSMO)
2019 - Technology for Oncology Grant (€735k, Dutch Research Council [NWO] and Dutch Cancer Society [KWF]) – Project Leader
2019 - Research Voucher (€50k, ZiekenhuisGroep Twente hospitals) – Project Leader
2016 - Tech4People Travel Grant, Sorbonne University (France) (€1k, University of Twente)
2015 - Rene Vogels Foundation Travel Grant, Mayo Clinic (USA) (€4k, Dutch Society for Oncology, NVvO)
NETWORKS
Member of professional societies:
· Vereniging voor Epidemiologie (VvE)
· International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR)·
· Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM)
TEACHING
Annemieke was involved in the bachelor courses Klinische Epidemiologie
(Gezondheidswetenschappen) and Epidemiologie, Statistiek en MTA (Technische
Geneeskunde), and the master course Clinical Efficacy and MTA (Health Sciences). Also,
Annemieke supervised several master students with their thesis. In 2016 and 2017 she was organizer and course leader of the University of Twente CuriousU summer school track The Future of Health Technology. In 2019 she started another course on Personalized eHealth Technology. She is developing a new master course on eHealth for the Technical Medicine curriculum.
Expertise
Organisations
Publications
UT Research Information System
Courses Academic Year 2023/2024
Courses Academic Year 2022/2023
Media
INTERVIEWS (selection)
- Bij Oost Vandaag, 04-02-2022 https://www.rtvoost.nl/tv/aflevering/bij-oost-vandaag/2052821_20220204170000
- Afslag Oost, 04-02-2022 https://www.rtvoost.nl/radio/programma/42/Afslag-Oost/aflevering/610621 (from 46.00 min.)
- 1Twente Vandaag, 13-10-2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6XcdyKW9ac
- NPO1 Focus, 21-10-2021 https://www.nporadio1.nl/fragmenten/focus/f6a80b7b-d1c8-4847-a2cd-3a3b802b492b/2021-10-21-als-je-genezen-bent-van-kanker-is-de-ziekte-nog-niet-weg-uit-je-leven
Tweets
Contact Details
Visiting Address
University of Twente
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Horst - Zuidhorst
(building no. 28)
De Horst 2
7522LW Enschede
The Netherlands
University of Twente
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Horst Complex
(building no. 20), room ZH210
De Horst 2
7522LW Enschede
The Netherlands
Mailing Address
University of Twente
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Horst Complex
ZH210
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands