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
de 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 Sep 16; 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 Sep 04; 9622802251374288. PMID: 40905767.
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.
Published on 12/21/2024Huang 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.
Published on 6/18/2024Griffith 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.
Published on 6/3/2024Heidema 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.
Published on 3/15/2024van 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.
Published on 3/11/2024Post RAJ, van den Heuvel ER, Putter H. Bias of the additive hazard model in the presence of causal effect heterogeneity. Lifetime Data Anal. 2024 Apr; 30(2):383-403. PMID: 38466520.
Published on 3/9/2024van den Heuvel ER, Almalik O, Zhan Z. Simulation models for aggregated data meta-analysis: Evaluation of pooling effect sizes and publication biases. Stat Methods Med Res. 2024 Mar; 33(3):359-375. PMID: 38460950.