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Calls, articles and moreCollaboration Right Heart Care In The Right Place
ZonMw and the DHF started a new thematic collaboration to facilitate early detection and optimal treatment of atrial fibrillation and heart failure through network care. In Q1 of 2022 two support programs will be lauched.
Young@heart played an active part in record breaking ESC
In close collaboration with the ESC Scientists and Clinicians of Tomorrow,Young@Heart designed hundreds of cutting edge scientific sessions for this year's ESC congress, which turned out to become a record-breaking event.
Meet three new partners
Earlier this year, the DCVA gained three valuable partners. Learn what these three parties stand for, how they are valuable to the DCVA, and how the DCVA is valuable to them.
New implementation consortium CUSTOM-AF
Preventing cerebral infarctions caused by atrial fibrillation. That is the main goal of the implementation consortium CUSTOM-AF.
Meet the partners
A double interviewIn this sixth and final edition of Meet the partners, we interview leaders of two of these partners, namely Floris Italianer (left), CEO of the Dutch Heart Foundation and prof. dr. Arno Hoes (right), dean of the Faculty of Medicine of the UMC Utrecht and formal prepresentative of the NFU.
Hospitals sought for Valsartan study
Can Valsartan prevent serious accumulation of fluid in the lungs in COVID-19? To answer this question, the Dutch Cardiovascular Alliance started the Praetorian COVID study. Initiators and research leaders Niels van Royen and Roland van Kimmenade (Radboudumc) are urging colleagues from other hospitals to participate.
COVID-19 research: avoid duplication
Register your COVID studiesAvoid duplication, combine efforts, maximise results, register your COVID-studies now
DCVA supports studies
Given the strong correlation and potentially deadly entanglement of COVID-19 and cardiovascular diseases, the DCVA decided to support two research studies
Strategy meeting
First digital DCVA strategy meeting to identify future opportunitiesHow nephrology and cardiology share common goals, what COVID-19 teaches us about working together with fifteen partners, three dilemmas and no socialising during drinks and dinner: those were the highlights of our first online but vivid strategy meeting on 1 April.
Meet the partners
A double interviewIn this fifth edition of Meet the partners we interview Niek Dubelaar LLM MSc (left), Head of Knowledge Transfer Office of KNAW and Dr. ir. Herry Nijhuis (right), Director NWO Applied and Engineering Sciences (TTW).
CAPACITY COVID REGISTRY
COVID-19 patients with cardiovascular disease are an extremely vulnerable population. To give these patients the best possible care and to be prepared for future outbreaks, we need to know more about these patients and the best practices for treating them. Therefore DCVA partners launched the CAPACITY COVID Registry.
Five million awarded to six projects in first DCVA call
In light of the first DCVA call ‘Heart for sustainable care’, six research teams received a total of over five million euros for research into the use of new technology against cardiovascular diseases.
Centralisation Dutch figures on CV disease
Dutch Heart Foundation and Dutch Heart Registration join forcesData on cardiovascular disease in the Netherlands can be found in various places. The DHF and NHR joined forces and launched their new website to centralise all these data
Intensification of cooperation DHF, NVVC, Harteraad in the context of the DCVA
Early detection of heart failure, atrial fibrillation and chest pain and the best treatment, tailored to patients' personal needs. To achieve this, the four partners will collaborate even more intensively in the coming three years
Meet the partners
A double interviewIn this fourth edition of Meet the partners we interview Dirk Jan Duncker, ambassador and former board member of the Netherlands Heart Institute, and Radjesh Manna, director of programs at ZonMw.
The Dutch Cardiology Concert in the Royal Concertgebouw
Do you have a heart full of music? Register now, to play at the Cardiology Concert in the Royal Concert Hall en Amsterdam. Organised bij de NVVC and WCN.
Rob de Ree
about valorisation and the TTT fundWhy is valorisation so important? What can be accomplished with the acquired 8 million? What will be the first steps? We ask Rob de Ree, chair of valorisation
Meet the partners
a double interviewIn this third edition of Meet the partners we interview Fabrice Martens, President of WCN, and Carmen van Vilsteren, Chair of Top Sector Life Sciences & Health (Health~Holland).
Prof. Dr. Jolanda van der Velden
about the DCVA Leadership ProgramWhat inspired Jolanda van der Velden to initiate the DCVA Leadership Program. What's so special about the program, and who is the DCVA looking for? Read the interview and find out.
Robert Tieleman chair of Implementation
Cardiologist Robert Tieleman has recently been appointed as chair of implementation. We interviewed him on his vision on implementation, and the role of different parties involved