Professor Maarten IJzermanĀ is Dean of Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management in the Netherlands (2022) and Professor of Cancer Health Services Research in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Australia. He is a trained biomedical scientist (Radboud UMC, Nijmegen) and earned a PhD (Biomedical Engineering) from the University of Twente. He previously was a member of the Board of Directors of Roessingh Centre for Rehabilitation, Scientific Director of the MIRA institute for Biomedical Engineering and Technical Medicine and Dean in the Faculty of Science & Technology (University of Twente). As a (visiting) scientist, he worked in Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, USA), Luxemburg Institute of Health, the Dutch Cancer Institute and Harvard School of Public Health Between 2017-2022 he was a tenured faculty member of the University of Melbourne and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Australia.

Following his PhD , he developed an interest in early HTA, a collection of methods and approaches to determine the value of medical innovation. In his current research, he is taking a health systems perspective to ensure equitable access to (complex) medical technologies.

Maarten was the founding chair of theĀ Department of Health Technology and Services Research (2007-2015), director of education for Health Sciences program (2007-2011), acting director of the MIRA institute for Biomedical Engineering and Technical Medicine (2013-2014) and vice-dean for Health & Biomedical Technology in the Faculty of Science and Technology (2015-2017). HeĀ is a visiting scientist in the Universoty of Twente.Ā 

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Ancillary activities

  • Erasmus University RotterdamAcademic, fulltime position
  • Laboratorium MicrobiologieRaad van Toezicht
  • University of MelbourneAcademic research

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Courses academic year 2025/2026

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Courses academic year 2024/2025

News on utwente.nl

  • https://www.utoday.nl/covid-19-research-at-ut/68467/delays-in-cancer-treatments-due-to-corona-crisis
  • https://www.utwente.nl/en/news/2018/3/39094/maarten-ijzerman-to-lead-world-class-cancer-research-program-in-melbourne
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