Assistant Professor Alicia Uijl

Alicia is assistant professor and clinical epidemiologist at the Julius Center for Primary Care and Health Sciences, University Medical Center Utrecht. She is associated with the BigData@Heart consortium of the Innovative Medicines Initiative. Main fields of interest are heart failure, electronic health records, real-world data, phenotyping, causal inference and personalised medicine. In 2016 Alicia Uijl started her PhD project on Opportunities and Challenges of Real-world Data in Heart Failure in Utrecht. She was under supervision of prof. dr. F.W. Asselbergs, prof. dr. A.W. Hoes, dr. S. Koudstaal and dr. I. Vaartjes. During her PhD she worked at the Institute for Health Informatics at University College London with CALIBER and CPRD data, United Kingdom, with prof. Spiros Denaxas. She also studied the Swedish Heart Failure registry at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, working together with dr. Gianluigi Savarese and prof. dr. Lars Lund. In June 2020 she succesfully defended her PhD.