Edwin Van Den Heuvel, PhD

Adjunct Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Edwin van den Heuvel studied mathematics at the University of Amsterdam, where he also obtained his PhD in mathematical statistics. He has been working as a consultant on quality control and quality improvement, he has been a director of a statistical unit in a pharmaceutical company for more than eight years, and he has been a professor of medical statistics at the University of Groningen. He considers himself as an all-round research statistician with a broad range of expertise and he specializes in the analysis of complex structured data sets.

Publications

  • Published 5/9/2025

    van Tetering AAC, de Vries EL, Ntuyo P, van den Heuvel ER, Fransen AF, van der Hout-van der Jagt MB, Namagembe I, Byamugisha J, Oei SG. Mono-Professional Simulation-Based Obstetric Training in a Low-Resource Setting: Stepped-Wedge Cluster Randomized Trial. JMIR Med Educ. 2025 May 09; 11:e54911. PMID: 40344206.

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  • Published 12/21/2024

    Huang C, Long X, van der Ven M, Kaptein M, Oei SG, van den Heuvel E. Predicting preterm birth using electronic medical records from multiple prenatal visits. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2024 Dec 21; 24(1):843. PMID: 39709388.

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  • Published 6/18/2024

    Griffith LE, Brini A, Muniz-Terrera G, St John PD, Stirland LE, Mayhew A, Oyarzún D, van den Heuvel E. A call for caution when using network methods to study multimorbidity: an illustration using data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. J Clin Epidemiol. 2024 Aug; 172:111435. PMID: 38901709.

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  • Published 6/3/2024

    Heidema S, Stoepker IV, Flaherty G, Angelo KM, Post RAJ, Miller C, Libman M, Hamer DH, van den Heuvel ER, Huits R. From GeoSentinel data to epidemiological insights: a multidisciplinary effort towards artificial intelligence-supported detection of infectious disease outbreaks. J Travel Med. 2024 Jun 03; 31(4). PMID: 38236181.

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  • Published 3/15/2024

    van den Berge BA, Groenhof F, Werker PMN, Furniss D, Kuo R, van den Heuvel ER, Broekstra DC. Mortality in patients with Dupuytren's disease in the first 5 years after diagnosis: a population-based survival analysis. J Hand Surg Eur Vol. 2024 Oct; 49(9):1110-1118. PMID: 38488516.

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Other Positions

  • Professor, Biostatistics
    Boston University School of Public Health

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Education

  • University of Amsterdam, PhD
  • University of Amsterdam, MSc

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