Edwin Van Den Heuvel PhD
Adjunct Professor, Preventive Medicine & Epidemiology
Professor, Biostatistics
72 E. Concord Street | (617) 358-2734evandenh@bu.edu
Sections
Preventive Medicine & Epidemiology
Centers
Framingham Heart Study
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.
Education
Statistics, PhD, University of Amsterdam
Mathematics, MSc, University of Amsterdam
Publications
Rafiq T, Ma J, Joshi D, Mayhew A, Griffith L, van den Heuvel E, Raina P. Dietary metabolomic determinants of frailty through inflammation in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging. NPJ Aging. 2026 Mar 23; 12(1). PMID: 41872230.
Published on 2/11/2026Vermeer JR, Post RAJ, Mast T, van den Heuvel ER, Dekker LRC. Can atrial fibrillation ablation outcomes be properly predicted with electrocardiography and artificial intelligence? Eur Heart J Digit Health. 2026 Mar; 7(2):ztag029. PMID: 41743189.
Published on 12/16/2025Alexopoulos E, Walsh J, Hsu JY, Blaha MJ, Cheng S, Daubert MA, Dunn G, Durda P, Fox ER, Thomas Y, van den Heuvel E, Judd SE, Vasan RS, Douglas PS, Bloomfield GS. Valvular Heart Disease Associations With Cardiac Biomarkers Using AI-Guided Echocardiography: The RURAL Cohort Study. JACC Adv. 2026 Jan; 5(1):102420. PMID: 41406932.
Published on 12/3/2025Griffith LE, Terrera GM, van den Heuvel E, Khattar J, Hogan DB, O'Connell M, Levasseur M, Raina P. Physical, Psychological, Cognitive and Social Frailty Domains in Community-Dwelling Adults Aged 45-85: a Cross-sectional Analysis of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA). Can Geriatr J. 2025 Dec; 28(4):343-352. PMID: 41306637.
Published on 11/12/2025de Klerk ND, Berben PBQ, de Vries IR, Niemarkt H, Vullings R, van den Heuvel ER, van der Ven M, Fransen AF, Oei SG, van Laar JOEH. Continuous non-invasive electrophysiological monitoring in high-risk pregnancies: study protocol of a cohort intervention random sampling study in a tertiary obstetrical care centre in the Netherlands (NIEM-O study). BMJ Open. 2025 Nov 12; 15(11):e102732. PMID: 41224309.
Published on 9/16/2025de Klerk ND, Berben PB, der Ven MV, Fransen AF, van der Hout-van der Jagt MB, Oei SG, van Laar JO, van den Heuvel ER. Optimizing clinical scientific research: the cohort intervention random sampling study with historical controls. J Comp Eff Res. 2025 Nov; 14(11):e240168. PMID: 40955624.
Published on 9/4/2025Deneer R, Zhan Z, Van den Heuvel E, van Boxtel AG, Boer AK, van Riel NA, Scharnhorst V. A comparison of semi-parametric statistical modeling approaches to dynamic classification of irregularly and sparsely sampled curves. Stat Methods Med Res. 2025 Nov; 34(11):2202-2218. PMID: 40905767.
Published on 9/2/2025Alexopoulos E, Walsh J, Hsu JY, Blaha MJ, Cheng S, Daubert MA, Dunn G, Durda P, Fox ER, Thomas Y, van den Heuvel E, Judd SE, Vasan RS, Douglas PS, Bloomfield GS. Valvular Heart Disease Associations with Cardiac Biomarkers Using AI-guided Echocardiography: the RURAL Cohort Study. medRxiv. 2025 Sep 02. PMID: 40950507.
Published on 7/22/2025Berben PBQ, de Klerk ND, van der Ven M, Fransen AF, Niemarkt HJ, van den Heuvel ER, van der Hout-van der Jagt MB, Oei SG, van Laar JOEH. Non-invasive electrophysiological monitoring vs conventional monitoring during labour in a tertiary obstetric care centre in the Netherlands: study protocol of a cohort intervention random sampling study (NIEM-II study). BMJ Open. 2025 Jul 22; 15(7):e102901. PMID: 40701589.
Published on 5/9/2025van 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.