Guests
Ronald B. Geskus, PhD
Ronald Geskus is Associate Professor at the University of Oxford and head of the biostatistics group at the Oxford University Clinical Research Unit (OUCRU) in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. OUCRU is a research institute completely focused on the study of infectious diseases.
After his PhD in mathematical statistics in 1997, he worked as senior statistician at the Public Health Service of Amsterdam, where specialized in the analysis of data on HIV and sexually transmitted diseases. Besides, he worked in several (medical) statistical research groups in the Netherlands, most notably at the UMC Amsterdam. In 2017 he joined OUCRU.
His research interests include: i) models for complex time-to-event data (competing risks, multi-state models) ii) models for complex longitudinal data, iii) prediction based on time-updated marker values, iv) causal inference v) infectious diseases.
Ronald’s homepage OUCRU | Ronald’s homepage University of Oxford
Eni Musta, PhD
Eni Musta is Assistant Professor in the Statistics group of the Korteweg-de Vries Institute for Mathematics at the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on survival analysis, non- and semi-parametric estimation methods and shape constrained statistical inference. Currently she is working on the development of new methodologies within the framework of cure rate models for dealing with survival data in the presence of long-term survivors or cured patients.
Eni is also interested in applications of statistical methods in the medical field and has recently started a collaboration with Leiden University Medical Center, Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology (Utrecht) and University College London Hospitals (UK) on the project "Long term survival after childhood osteosarcoma: cure models".
Euloge Clovis Kenne Pagui, PhD
Euloge Clovis Kenne Pagui is a mathematician (PhD in Statistics, 2013, University of Padova, Italy), working as a researcher at Oslo Centre of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Oslo, Norway. He is currently involved both in the PRIME-ROSE project to construct suitable synthetic control arms for assessing the treatment effect (WP2), and the second project is to construct a single control arm in non-randomized clinical trial from multiple control arms using meta analyses.
His research interests include: inference in observational studies; prediction of gene mutation in cancer field; sample size calculation in case-controls studies; methodological methods for construction of synthetic control arms; mean and median bias reduction of the maximum likelihood estimator.
Audinga-Dea Hazewinkel, PhD
Audinga-Dea Hazewinkel got her PhD in November 2022 at the Bristol Medical School of the University of Bristol (UK). She currently works as a Research Fellow at the Department of Medical Statistics (Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health) of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (UK).
She collaborated with the Mathematical Institute of Leiden University and the Leiden University Medical Center to characterize the model behaviour and measure the model performance of various machine-learning methods in predicting survival for patients with osteosarcoma.
Salvatore Battaglia, PhD
Salvatore Battaglia works at the department of Economics, Business and Statistics of University of Palermo. His research deals with applications and new methodologies in survival analysis, especially in presence of competing risks. He is working on Vertical Model in the presence of random effects, with application on Emergency Department data to analyze the overcrowding. He is also a research team member of the Gastroenterology department of University of Palermo, specializing in analysis of Hepatocellular Carcinoma and, in general, liver diseases.
Guest visiting periods at the Mathematical Institute of Leiden University: October 2023; from February to July 2022.
Mirjam van den Brink, MD PhD
Mirjam van den Brink got her PhD on April 12th, 2024 at the Maastricht University under the supervision of prof. dr. Marta Fiocco (Mathematical Institute Leiden University & Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology), prof.dr. Remco Havermans (Maastricht University), and prof. dr. Wim Tissing (Groningen University & Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology)
Her PhD research in collaboration with the Princess Maxima Center for Pediatric Oncology (Utrecht) focused on getting insight into chemotherapy-induced smell and taste changes among pediatric oncology patients and its possible consequences regarding food intake, eating behaviour, nutritional status, and quality of life.
Results has been published for a general public in the Dutch AD journal: ''Cola smaakt naar kots" | "Coke tastes like puke".
Doctoral Thesis: van den Brink M (2024, April 12). The flavor of chemotherapy: Exploring smell and taste function in children with cancer.
Ibtissam Acem, MSc
Ibtissam Acem is a MD/PhD student at the department of Orthopaedic Oncology and Surgical Oncology at the Leiden University Medical Centre and Erasmus MC Cancer Institute. She has a bachelor’s degree in Medicine and a Research Master’s degree in Clinical Research. She focuses on risk stratification and management of patients with soft tissue sarcoma. The aim of her research is to obtain a more subtype- and patient-tailored approach in the management of patients of soft tissue sarcoma.
Bernadette Jeremiasse, MD
Bernadette Jeremiasse is a PhD candidate at the department of Pediatric Surgery of the Princess Máxima Center for Pediatric Oncology (Utrecht).
She is performing both pre-clinical and clinical studies in the field of Fluorescence Guided Surgery with the ultimate goal to improve surgical care by implementing this promising technique in the Princess Máxima Center.
