Prof.dr.ir. R.H.M. (Richard) Goossens

Prof.dr.ir. R.H.M. (Richard) Goossens

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Richard Goossens, professor of Physical Ergonomics at TU Delft, currently leads the Convergence Health & Technology initiative link, which aims to revolutionize healthcare by integrating medical, engineering, and social sciences. His vision is deeply rooted in promoting lifelong health, socio-economic equality, and individualized medical treatment. Goossens believes in proactive healthcare, focusing on early diagnostics and prevention to maintain health rather than merely treating diseases. His approach emphasizes continuous health management from pre-birth to end-of-life, striving to extend high-quality life years and ensure that everyone, regardless of socio-economic status, has access to top-notch care.

Under Goossens' leadership the Convergence initiative has set ambitious goals to transform healthcare and established more than 90 projects running, over 1200 scientists involved, more than 100 jobs created and over 150 external partnerships, in (inter)nationally leading research programmes, each with significant funding, the initiative aims to achieve major breakthroughs in health and science. Goossens also emphasises the importance of scaling up health technology innovations to ensure they have a direct impact on society. In addition, the initiative focuses on educating future professionals with the transdisciplinary skills needed to implement these breakthroughs, creating a robust and vibrant ecosystem where researchers, students, clinicians and entrepreneurs can collaborate and inspire each other.

Richard Goossens strategic vision is to educate and connect disciplines in order to build a sustainable, equitable, and innovative health and care system for the future. Through initiatives at faculty, university and national and international level he is driving a pivotal transformation, ensuring that the healthcare system can adapt to the evolving needs of society and improve the overall quality of life for all.

Next to his current role in Convergence, he established the healthcare design track Medisign link in the master program at the faculty of Industrial Design Engineering in 1998 and that since has over 1200 alumni. He is a board member of the TU Delft Health Initiative link and Chair since 2017 representing over 600 researchers at Delft University of Technology involved in health and care research. On national level he was the Chair of the 4TU.Health centre during 2022-2024, in which the four Dutch technical universities join forces to develop advanced technology for patient-centered healthcare innovation. At Monash University in Melbourne Australia he is appointed adjunct professor, in Jiangnan University in Wuxi, China, he contributes to establishing a Medisign track.

His research area is on design innovation for Healthcare (Human Centered Healthcare) that involves co-creation with patients, medical professionals, and non-professional users (family and friends) in different projects. Such as the Surgeons Cockpit, that focusses on the quality in surgical performance, HIPP a project that generates a long term vision for the future of cure and care for orthopedic patients, and the Consultation Room of the Future in which over medical and technical discipline work towards rethinking of the processes in the traditional consultation room.

In 2020 he was appointed Knight in the Order of the Lion of the Netherlands for his academic contributions.

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Optimizing the patient experience journey in orthopedics.

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