From August 1 , 2022, Arfan Ikram will be chairman of ZonMw and from that moment also a member of the executive board of NWO . He combines this position with his activities as professor and head of the Epidemiology department at Erasmus MC and succeeds Jeroen Geurts, who has been appointed Rector Magnificus of VU University Amsterdam on 15 January 2022 .
Arfan Ikram was originally trained as a doctor and has since 2010 fully focused his career on scientific research and education after obtaining his doctorate . He has long focused on neurological disorders, such as dementia and stroke, which he has studied from an epidemiological approach. In recent years he has broadened his focus to topics such as health (brain) aging, multimorbidity, health journeys and life-course epidemiology. He is also interested in safeguarding the methodology of medical scientific research. Arfan has been working at Erasmus MC since 2017 as a professor and head of the Epidemiology department. In addition, he has also been appointed as an adjunct professor of Epidemiology at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health in Boston (USA). Arfan has extensive experience in large-scale cohort studies, including his leading role in the Erasmus Rotterdam Health Research (ERGO). Arfan is also a member of the Young Academy of the KNAW.
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