Dr. Eric P . Moll van Charante is a general practitioner who combines clinical work as a GP with an academic career in primary care and public health. He co-leads several European funded trials on eHealth and mHealth interventions focusing on cardiovascular risk self-management with remote lifestyle coaching (www.hatice.eu and www.prodemos-project.eu). Furthermore, he is board member of the HELIUS cohort study (Healthy Life in an Urban Setting), studying the unequal cardiovascular burden of disease across the six largest ethnic groups living in Amsterdam (www.heliusstudy.nl).