Kevin Vernooy

Professor

Prof. Kevin Vernooy became a medical docter in 2003 at the Maastricht University. He finished his PhD in 2006 on cardiac resynchronisation therapy at Maastricht University. In 2012, he finished his Cardiology training and subspecialiation in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias as an clinical electrophysiologist at Maastricht UMC+

Since 2012, he has been working at Maastricht UMC+ as a clinical electrophysiologist. Since 2014, he has been heading the divion of clinical electrophysiology in the Department of Cardiology and since 2018 the research on cardiac arrhythmias at the Department of Cardiology at the Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen.

His research focusses on the invasive treatment of cardiac arrhythmias in patients with heart failure.

In 2020, he became a Professor in clinical electrophysiology entitled “Electrical management of heart failure”. Since March 2021, he has been chairing the head of department of cardiology at the MUMC+ and leader of the Division Heart at CARIM.

Department of Cardiology
P. Debyelaan 25, 6229 HX Maastricht 
PO Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht
M: +31(0)620 198 657

  • 2024
    • Knops, R. E., de Veld, J. A., Ghani, A., Boersma, L. V. A., Kuschyk, J., El Chami, M. F., Bonnemeier, H., Behr, E. R., Brouwer, T. F., Kääb, S., Mittal, S., Pepplinkhuizen, S., Quast, A.-F. B. E., Smeding, L., van der Stuijt, W., de Weger, A., Bijsterveld, N. R., Richter, S., Brouwer, M. A., ... PRAETORIAN Investigators (2024). Quality of Life in Subcutaneous or Transvenous Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Patients: A Secondary Analysis of the PRAETORIAN Trial. Circulation : Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, 17(11), 010822. https://doi.org/10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.124.010822
    • van Loon, T., Rijks, J., van Koll, J., Wolffs, J., Cornelussen, R., van Osta, N., Luermans, J., Prinzen, F., Linz, D., van Empel, V., Delhaas, T., Vernooy, K., & Lumens, J. (2024). Accelerated atrial pacing reduces left-heart filling pressure: a combined clinical-computational study. European Heart Journal. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehae718
    • Nies, H. M. J. M., Linz, D., Bijvoet, G. P., Holtackers, R. J., Luermans, J. G. L. M., van der Velden, K. E. H. M., Wildberger, J. E., Vernooy, K., van Kuijk, S. M. J., Mihl, C., & Chaldoupi, S. M. (2024). Local atrial bipolar electrogram voltage drops during cardiac magnetic resonance guided catheter ablation of typical atrial flutter: Associations with delivered radiofrequency energy and peri-procedural imaging. Heart Rhythm O2, 5(11), 778-787. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hroo.2024.08.015
    • Vernooy, K., van Stipdonk, A. M. W., & Joza, J. (2024). People with cardiac pacemakers require multidisciplinary care. Nature Medicine, 30(11), 3061-3062. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-024-03296-w
    • Joza, J., Burri, H., Andrade, J. G., Linz, D., Ellenbogen, K. A., & Vernooy, K. (2024). Atrioventricular node ablation for atrial fibrillation in the era of conduction system pacing. European Heart Journal, Article ehae656. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehae656
    • Bijvoet, G. P., Hermans, B. J. M., Linz, D., Luermans, J. G. L. M., Maesen, B., Nijveldt, R., Mihl, C., Vernooy, K., Wildberger, J. E., Holtackers, R. J., Schotten, U., & Chaldoupi, S.-M. (2024). Optimal Threshold and Interpatient Variability in Left Atrial Ablation Scar Assessment by Dark-Blood LGE CMR. JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology, 10(10), 2186-2197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacep.2024.05.017
    • Vijayaraman, P., Zanon, F., Ponnusamy, S. S., Herweg, B., Sharma, P., Molina-Lerma, M., Jastrzebski, M., Whinnett, Z., Vernooy, K., Pathak, R. K., Tung, R., Upadhyay, G., Curila, K., Zalavadia, D., Shah, N., Marcantoni, L., Gad, M., Morcos, R., Moskal, P., ... Cano, O. (2024). Conduction system pacing compared with biventricular pacing for cardiac resynchronization therapy in patients with heart failure and mildly reduced left ventricular ejection fraction: Results from International Collaborative LBBAP Study (I-CLAS) Group. Heart Rhythm. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrthm.2024.09.030
    • Rijks, J. H. J., Heckman, L., Westra, S., Cornelussen, R., Ghosh, S., Curila, K., Smisek, R., Grieco, D., Bressi, E., Nguyen, U. C., Lumens, J., van Stipdonk, A. M. W., Linz, D., Prinzen, F. W., Luermans, J. G. L. M., & Vernooy, K. (2024). Assessment of ventricular electrical heterogeneity in left bundle branch pacing and left ventricular septal pacing by using various electrophysiological methods. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, Article 16435. https://doi.org/10.1111/jce.16435
    • Beela, A. S., Rijks, J. H. J., Manetti, C. A., Vernooy, K., van Stipdonk, A. M. W., Prinzen, F. W., Delhaas, T., Herbots, L., & Lumens, J. (2024). Left bundle branch block criteria in the 2021 ESC guidelines on CRT: A step back in identifying CRT candidates?European Heart Journal Cardiovascular Imaging, 25(9), e213-e215. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjci/jeae164
    • Ghossein, M. A., de Kok, J. W. T. M., Eerenberg, F., van Rosmalen, F., Boereboom, R., Duisberg, F., Verharen, K., Sels, J. E. M., Delnoij, T., Geyik, Z., Mingels, A. M. A., Meex, S. J. R., van Kuijk, S. M. J., van Stipdonk, A. M. W., Ghossein, C., Prinzen, F. W., van der Horst, I. C. C., Vernooy, K., van Bussel, B. C. T., & Driessen, R. G. H. (2024). Monitoring of myocardial injury by serial measurements of QRS area and T area: The MaastrICCht cohort. Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology, 29(5), Article e70001. https://doi.org/10.1111/anec.70001