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
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.
Published on 6/18/2024Griffith LE, Brini A, Muniz-Terrera G, St John PD, Stirland LE, Mayhew A, OyarzĂșn 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.
Published on 2/20/2024Fazlalizadeh H, Khan MS, Fox ER, Douglas PS, Adams D, Blaha MJ, Daubert MA, Dunn G, van den Heuvel E, Kelsey MD, Martin RP, Thomas JD, Thomas Y, Judd SE, Vasan RS, Budoff MJ, Bloomfield GS. Closing the Last Mile Gap in Access to Multimodality Imaging in Rural Settings: Design of the Imaging Core of the Risk Underlying Rural Areas Longitudinal Study. Circ Cardiovasc Imaging. 2024 Feb; 17(2):e015496. PMID: 38377236.
Published on 2/15/2024Post RAJ, van den Heuvel ER, Putter H. The built-in selection bias of hazard ratios formalized using structural causal models. Lifetime Data Anal. 2024 Apr; 30(2):404-438. PMID: 38358572.
Published on 1/30/2024van den Berge BA, Omar FMA, Werker PMN, Zhan Z, van den Heuvel ER, Broekstra DC. Treatment Durability of Limited Fasciectomy versus Percutaneous Needle Fasciotomy for Dupuytren Disease. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2024 Nov 01; 154(5):928e-938e. PMID: 38289897.
Published on 1/29/2024Mulders PJAM, van den Heuvel ER, Reidsma P, Duivesteijn W. Introducing exceptional growth mining-Analyzing the impact of soil characteristics on on-farm crop growth and yield variability. PLoS One. 2024; 19(1):e0296684. PMID: 38285649.