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prof.dr.ir. M. Tabak (Monique)

Full Professor

About Me

Prof.dr.ir. Monique Tabak is full professor at the University of Twente with a background in Biomedical Engineering (cum laude), leading the research track on personalized eHealth technology for complex chronic conditions. She is an eHealth expert, focusing on the question: how can eHealth technology contribute to tailor-made care in daily life? 

Monique has a strong (European) network and participated in >20 (inter)national research and innovation projects  on eHealth (e.g. IS-ACTIVE (AAL), InLife (H2020), MAGGY (NWO), LoaD (NWA-ORC)) in major coordinating roles as project manager or WP leader, as well as principal investigator and in close collaboration with care centres.

She is currently leading the large-scale European RE-SAMPLE project in which a multidisciplinary consortium is developing revolutionary tailor-made care for people with COPD and comorbidities using real-world data monitoring and AI. She is also PI and WP leader in the LoAD project (NWA-ORC) in which she develops personalized feedback and coaching strategies for people with osteoarthritis based on a multi-modal sensing approach and recommender systems for tailoring.

She is a teacher in eHealth technology for the educational programmes of Biomedical Engineering, Technical Medicine and Health Science.

Expertise

Medicine & Life Sciences
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Exercise
Mentoring
Self-Management
Technology
Telemedicine
Engineering & Materials Science
Ehealth
Gamification

Research

Prof.dr.ir. Monique Tabak is full professor at the University of Twente with a background in Biomedical Engineering (cum laude), leading the research track on personalized eHealth technology for complex chronic conditions. She is an eHealth expert, focusing on the question: how can eHealth technology contribute to tailor-made care in daily life? Her research is about tailoring eHealth interventions by a shared-decision making approach between technology, healthcare provider and patient, and supporting self-management in daily life for persons with complex chronic conditions. 

She is currently leading the large-scale European RE-SAMPLE project in which a multidisciplinary consortium is developing revolutionary tailor-made care for people with COPD and comorbidities using real-world data monitoring and AI. She is also PI and WP leader in the LoAD project (NWA-ORC) in which she develops personalized feedback and coaching strategies for people with osteoarthritis based on a multi-modal sensing approach and recommender systems for tailoring.

Her expertise includes: telemonitoring, shared decision making, decision support systems, adaptive tailored coaching, self-management, complex chronic (lung) conditions. 

Publications

Recent
Oberschmidt, K. (2024). Who, When, How - Guiding the active involvement of stakeholders in eHealth Action Research. [PhD Thesis - Research external, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036558679
Tunc, S. , Nijboer, F. , Tinga, A. , & Tabak, M. (2023). “Hi, My Name is Robin” – Remotely Co-designing an Embodied Conversational Agent for Empathy with Older Adults. 376-391. Paper presented at 25th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2023, Copenhagen, Denmark. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34866-2_27
van der Kamp, M. R. (2023). eHealth in pediatric asthma care: From smart home-monitoring to implementing a new care standard . [PhD Thesis - Research external, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036555654
Barneveld, N. , Hietbrink, E. A. G., Middelweerd, A. , Beinema, T. , Tabak, M., & Laverman, G. D. (2022). Een device voor leefstijlcoaching voor mensen met beperkte gezondheidsvaardigheden: Design en ervaringen. 15-15. Abstract from ZGT Wetenschapsdag 2022, Almelo, Netherlands.
Tabak, M. (2022). Persoonsgerichte zorg op afstand: telemedicine binnen de revalidatiezorg. In Geertzen (Ed.), Revalidatie voor volwassenen (2 ed., pp. 609-622). Van Gorcum.
Silven, A., van Peet, P., Boers, S. , Tabak, M., de Groot, A., Hendriks, D., van Os, H., Bonten, T., Atsma, D., de Graaf, T., Sombroek, M., Chavannes, N., & Villalobos-Quesada, M. (2022). Clarifying responsibility: professional digital health in the doctor-patient relationship, recommendations for physicians based on a multi-stakeholder dialogue in the Netherlands. BMC health services research, 22, Article 129. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-07316-0
Astell, A. J., Panou, M., Touliou, K., Karavidopoulou, Y., Cabrera-Umpiérrez, M. F., Aldaz, E., Bizjak, J., Black, B., Buchholz, M., Mata, J. C., Cossu-Ergecer, F., Debring, S., van-Weering, M. D., Ekström, A., Gams, M., Soler, A. G., Gradišek, A., Goljuf, K., Kaimakamis, E. , ... Tabak, M. (2022). Developing a pragmatic evaluation of ICTs for older adults with cognitive impairment at scale: the IN LIFE experience. Universal access in the information society, 21, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-021-00849-5

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Education

She is a teacher in eHealth technology for the educational programmes of Biomedical Engineering, Technical Medicine and Health Science. She is a qualified lecturer, and promotor of several PhD students.

Affiliated Study Programmes

Bachelor

Master

Courses Academic Year  2023/2024

Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.
 

Courses Academic Year  2022/2023

Projects

Monique has a strong (European) network and participated in >20 (inter)national research and innovation projects  on eHealth (e.g. IS-ACTIVE (AAL), InLife (H2020), MAGGY (NWO), LoaD (NWA-ORC)) in major coordinating roles as project manager or WP leader, as well as principal investigator and in close collaboration with care centres.

She is currently leading the large-scale European RE-SAMPLE project in which a multidisciplinary consortium is developing revolutionary tailor-made care for people with COPD and comorbidities using real-world data monitoring and AI. She is also PI and WP leader in the LoAD project (NWA-ORC) in which she develops personalized feedback and coaching strategies for people with osteoarthritis based on a multi-modal sensing approach and recommender systems for tailoring.

Current Projects

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

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Mailing Address

University of Twente
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
Horst - Zuidhorst
P.O. Box 217
7500 AE Enschede
The Netherlands

Additional Contact Information

Also employed as senior researcher at:

Roessingh Research and Development

Roessinghsbleekweg 33b

7522 AH Enschede

m.tabak@rrd.nl

 

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