Stijn is an industry consultant based in Belgium. He joined the Global Health and Life Sciences Practice for SAS in 2015 and is responsible for building relationships and meeting customer needs in the health and life sciences industries. Before joining SAS, Stijn worked for Tibotec R&D (Johnson & Johnson) where he first acted as an electronic data capture expert within clinical operations and later transitioned to a clinical data architect role. He also led the clinical data architect team for infectious diseases & vaccines therapeutic area. Stijn graduated in 2013 from a 2-year Executive MBA at Antwerp Management School. He was also part of the Clinical Trial Innovation team before he decided to leave J&J and take on this new opportunity at SAS.
In May, I joined several SAS colleagues, academics, clinicians, pharmaceutical companies, and other information and technology specialists for the first-ever IMI PIONEER Hackathon for prostate cancer research. A few weeks later, as I watched the SpaceX launch on TV, it occurred to me that space trips and cancer research have
In my 15+ years working in clinical research, I've not seen significant evolution in the way we do clinical trials and apply advanced analytics to clinical trial data. A personal story demonstrates that a similar problem is at play in health care. Each year my daughter visits the children’s cardiology
