P.B.M. (Pieter) Vandekerckhove

P.B.M. (Pieter) Vandekerckhove

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Pieter Vandekerckhove is Assistant Professor Healthcare Entrepreneurship (tenure track) at Delft Centre of Entrepreneurship. He obtained his PhD at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management.  His research and education focus on collaborative approaches involving co-design methodology at an early stage to build impactful health ventures. He developed a stakeholder assembly procedure to involve various different stakeholders as patients, care professionals, managers, technical people, fundamental researchers and designers. This way he aims to provide a scientifically robust method  to  effectively use generative co-design for digital health. Pieter has published in scientific Journals. He has reviewed papers for JMIR and BMJ Open.
 

Pieter is a patient expert through his cancer experience and has demonstrated how to effectively involve patients and other stakeholders in the early innovation process. He is also developing a method to manage stakeholder interaction through combining insights from business development and generative co-design.   

Pieter currently runs an EIT Health funded online training called ValEU about health entrepreneurship. Pieter is involved in a flagship project called iCell in the health and technology convergence program of TU Delft, Erasmus MC and Erasmus University Rotterdam. iCell aims to develop new technologies based on insights from fundamental biology and genetic research to improve cancer care. He is also involved in a NWO granted research project called My Smart Family Buddy to improve health of impoverished families in Rotterdam. 


Pieter's main interest lies in improving cancer care, recently published a book based on his experience with cancer as an adolescent “The Self Hologram: Awakening a philosophy of life”. His mission is to improve cancer care from a patient perspective so that one has to go through the same experience as he did and live a fulfilling life during and after a cancer diagnosis.

You can reach out to me via: p.b.m.vandekerckhove [at] tudelft.nl
 

Expertise for PhD topics and Master thesis topics:

  • Early development of digital health for Adolescents and Young Adults (AYAs) with cancer
  • Early venturing with fundamental genetic and biologic applications for cancer
  • Involvement and management of multiple stakeholders in an early venturing process with generative co-design and business tools
  • Patient centered and value-based healthcare for adolescent and young adults with cancer

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