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Professorship Julie Staals

Professorship Julie Staals

22 April 2024

Dr Julie Staals (Dept. of Neurology) has been appointed as professor 'Neurovascular disease' as of 1 April 2024.

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ERC Advanced Grant awarded to Prof. Andy Baker

ERC Advanced Grant awarded to Prof. Andy Baker

15 April 2024

Prof. Andy Baker (Dept of Pathology) has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant of €2,5M for his research project PolymiRize: Poly-miRNA targeting to prevent and reverse complex tissue remodelling after acute cardiovascular events'.

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Jos Maessen

Professor

Prof. Jos Maessen joined a young Maastricht University community in 1978 and stayed there after graduation in Medicine, obtaining his PhD, and being trained as a cardiothoracic surgeon, to become professor and chief of the Department of Cardiothoracic surgery as well as Principal Investigator in CARIM in 2005. From a rather non-academic clinical department, his group turned into an important clinical partner for basic scientists within CARIM initiating and supporting many translational research projects. Apart from delivering the best possible care his team is convinced that this approach is the best and shortest way to innovate the cardiac surgical profession. Crossing borders leads to new opportunities. Surgeons and electrophysiologists developed hybrid treatment modalities for AF treatment with better results and new research opportunities. Similarly, in reconstructive surgery of the aorta and mitral valve, combining treatment with virtual reality, modeling and experimental imaging, outcome improved and the results raised new hypotheses for basis research.

Jos-maessen

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
P. Debyelaan 25, 6229 HX Maastricht 
PO Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht
Room number: 3.C2.023
T: +31(0)43 387 11 25

  • 2024
    • van der Heijden, C. A. J., Adriaans, B. P., van Kuijk, S. M. J., Luermans, J. G. L. M., Chaldoupi, S.-M., Maessen, J. G., Bidar, E., & Maesen, B. (2024). Left atrial function of patients with atrial fibrillation undergoing thoracoscopic hybrid ablation. Interdisciplinary CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery, 38(4), Article ivae061. https://doi.org/10.1093/icvts/ivae061
    • Sardari Nia, P., Ganushchak, Y., & Maessen, J. (2024). Proposal of statistical twin as a transition to full digital twin technology for cardiovascular interventions. Interdisciplinary CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery, 38(4), Article ivae032. https://doi.org/10.1093/icvts/ivae032
    • Jung, Y., van Kuijk, S. M. J., Gietema, H., Maessen, J. G., & Sardari Nia, P. (2024). Prediction of poor exposure in endoscopic mitral valve surgery using computed tomography. European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, 65(3), Article ezae070. https://doi.org/10.1093/ejcts/ezae070
    • Checheili Sobbi, S., Jung, Y., Fillet, M., Bakhtiary, F., Maessen, J. G., & Sardari Nia, P. (2024). Simulation-based training for endoscopic mitral valve repair: the impact on basic surgical skills for placement of sutures at mitral valve annulus during 2-h training workshop. Interdisciplinary CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery, 38(2), Article ivae003. https://doi.org/10.1093/icvts/ivae003
    • Heuts, S., van de Koolwijk, A. F., Gabrio, A., Ubben, J. F. H., van der Horst, I. C. C., Delnoij, T. S. R., Suverein, M. M., Maessen, J. G., Lorusso, R., & van de Poll, M. C. G. (2024). Extracorporeal life support in cardiac arrest: a post hoc Bayesian re-analysis of the INCEPTION trial. European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care, 13(2), 191-200. Article zuad130. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjacc/zuad130
    • Ubben, J. F. H., Suverein, M. M., Delnoij, T. S. R., Heuts, S., Winkens, B., Gabrio, A., van der Horst, I. C. C., Maessen, J. G., Lorusso, R., van de Poll, M. C. G., & INCEPTION-investigators (2024). Early extracorporeal CPR for refractory out-of-hospital cardiac arrest - A pre-planned per-protocol analysis of the INCEPTION-trial. Resuscitation, 194, Article 110033. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2023.110033
    • Gilbers, M. D., Kawczynski, M. J., Bidar, E., Maesen, B., Isaacs, A., Winters, J., Linz, D., Rienstra, M., van Gelder, I., Maessen, J. G., & Schotten, U. (2024). Clinical Predictors of Device-Detected Atrial Fibrillation During 2.5 Years After Cardiac Surgery: Prospective RACE V Cohort. JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacep.2024.01.013
    • Heuts, S., Olsthoorn, J. R., Houterman, S., Roefs, M. M., Maessen, J. G., Sardari Nia, P., & Cardiothoracic Surgery Registration Committee of the Netherlands Heart Registration (2024). One-year postprocedural quality of life following mitral valve surgery: data from The Netherlands heart registration. Interdisciplinary CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/icvts/ivae051
  • 2023
    • Suverein, M. M., Maessen, J. G., & van de Poll, M. C. G. (2023). Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest - current status. Current opinion in critical care, 29(6), 633-639. https://doi.org/10.1097/MCC.0000000000001102
    • Heuts, S., Kawczynski, M., Sardari Nia, P., Maessen, J. G., Biondi-Zoccai, G., & Gabrio, A. (2023). Bayesian interpretation of non-inferiority in transcatheter versus surgical aortic valve replacement trials: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Interdisciplinary CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery, 37(5), Article ivad185. https://doi.org/10.1093/icvts/ivad185
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