Diederick E. Grobbee, MD, PhD - Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Chair, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, UTRECHT, Netherlands

Diederick E. Grobbee, MD, PhD (1957) was trained in medicine in Utrecht and, after a residency in internal medicine, obtained a PhD in epidemiology at Erasmus University in Rotterdam. His education was continued at McGill University in Montreal and as a visiting associate professor at Harvard University School of Public Health. He spent about a decade at Erasmus were he headed the cardiovascular epidemiology group and was appointed professor of clinical epidemiology. He subsequently moved to the University Medical Center Utrecht, to become professor of clinical epidemiology and chairman of the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care. He is program director of the international MSc Epidemiology program at Utrecht University and board member of the Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences. Diederick Grobbee is on the board of the Academic Alliance for Clinical Trials and is a board member of the Medical Advisory Council of the Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences. He is editor of the European Journal of Epidemiology. His teaching experience includes courses on clinical epidemiology and clinical research methods to various audiences in several countries.

Arno W. Hoes, MD, PhD - Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

Arno W. Hoes, MD, PhD (1958) studied medicine at the Catholic University Nijmegen. He obtained his PhD degree in clinical epidemiology at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam. He was futher trained in clinical epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In 1991 he was appointed assistant professor of clinical epidemiology and general practice at both the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics and the Department of General Practice at the Erasmus Medical Center. At the latter department he headed the research line “Cardiovascular disease in primary care”. In 1996, he moved to the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care of the University Medical Center in Utrecht, where he was appointed professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Primary Care in 1998. He is currently director of research of the Julius Center. His teaching experience includes courses on study design, clinical epidemiology, diagnostic research, drug risk assessment and cardiovascular disease. Since 1998 he is a member of the Dutch Medicines Evaluation Board.