Tammo Delhaas

Professor

Tammo Delhaas is Pediatric Cardiologist and Professor of Biomedical Engineering. He obtained his MD at the University of Groningen and received his PhD degree from Maastricht University in 1993 for a thesis on cardiac mechanics. After his training in Pediatrics in Maastricht and Utrecht, he received a Fulbright grant/ICIN-Fellowship and spent one year at the Departments of Bioengineering and Medicine from the UCSD. Thereafter, he trained in Pediatric Cardiology in Aachen and Melbourne. In 2000, he returned to Maastricht as Pediatric Cardiologist and continued his research on the crossroads of (Pediatric) Cardiology, Physiology and Biomedical Engineering. In 2009, he was appointed Professor and Chair of Biomedical Engineering at Maastricht University, where he is involved in projects related to cellular and cardiac mechanics, cardiac pacing, and mathematical modeling of the heart and circulation.

Prof. Tammo Delhaas is heading the CardioVascular System Dynamics Research Group (CVSDRG). With clinical questions regarding (congenital) heart diseases in mind, his research focusses on asynchronous electrical activation, vascular and myocardial structure-function relation, and computer model-assisted diagnosis and treatment of cardiac failure, pulmonary hypertension and congenital heart diseases. Besides standard expertise, CVSDRG uses following techniques/models in which it has expertise of extraordinary quality according to international standards: 1) CircAdapt, a lumped parameter mathematical model of the human heart and circulation that enables real-time simulation of cardiovascular system dynamics in a wide variety of physiological and pathophysiological situations (www.circadapt.org); 2) Finite Element Model of the heart with left and right ventricle, simulating local stress and strain as a function of time with emphasis on adaptation of wall anatomy to local mechanical load; 3) Pulse Wave Propagation and Computational Fluid Dynamics models that predict pressure and flow waveforms after vascular interventions, such as Arterio-Venous Fistula creation for hemodialysis. Prof. Tammo Delhaas serves as a reviewer or member of the editorial board of many journals, and has received grants from, amongst others, the Dutch Heart Foundation, Maastricht UMC+, Province of Limburg, NWO, European Research Council, and the Interuniversity Cardiology Institute of the Netherlands (ICIN).

Department of Biomedical Engineering
Universiteitssingel 50, 6229 ER Maastricht
PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht
Room number: 3.366
T:+31(0)43 388 16 67

2023
- Luo, H., Weerts, J., Bekkers, A., Achten, A., Lievens, S., Smeets, K., van Empel, V., Delhaas, T., & Prinzen, F. W. (2023). Association between phonocardiography and echocardiography in heart failure patients with preserved ejection fraction. European Heart Journal - Digital Health, 4(1), 4-11. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjdh/ztac073
- Malik, A. E. F., Giudici, A., van der Laan, K. W. F., Op 't Roodt, J., Mess, W. H., Delhaas, T., Spronck, B., & Reesink, K. D. (2023). Detectable Bias between Vascular Ultrasound Echo-Tracking Systems: Relevance Depends on Application. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 12(1), [69]. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm12010069
2022
- Bol, M. E., Huckriede, J. B., van de Pas, K. G. H., Delhaas, T., Lorusso, R., Nicolaes, G. A. F., Sels, J. E. M., & van de Poll, M. C. G. (2022). Multimodal measurement of glycocalyx degradation during coronary artery bypass grafting. Frontiers in medicine, 9, 1045728. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2022.1045728
- Bol, M. E., Broddin, B. E. K., Delhaas, T., Sels, J. E. M., & van de Poll, M. C. G. (2022). Variability of microcirculatory measurements in healthy volunteers. Scientific Reports, 12(1), [19887]. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-22947-x
- Shahmohammadi, M., Huberts, W., Luo, H. X., Westphal, P., Cornelussen, R. N., Prinzen, F. W., & Delhaas, T. (2022). Hemodynamics-driven mathematical model of third heart sound generation. Frontiers in physiology, 13, [847164]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2022.847164
- Luo, H., Lamata, P., Bazin, S., Bautista, T., Barclay, N., Shahmohammadi, M., Lubrecht, J. M., Delhaas, T., & Prinzen, F. W. (2022). Smartphone as an electronic stethoscope: factors influencing heart sound quality. European Heart Journal - Digital Health, 3(3), 473-480. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjdh/ztac044
- Verzaal, N. J., van Deursen, C. J. M., Pezzuto, S., Wecke, L., van Everdingen, W. M., Vernooy, K., Delhaas, T., Auricchio, A., & Prinzen, F. W. (2022). Synchronization of repolarization after cardiac resynchronization therapy: A combined clinical and modeling study. Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology, 33(8), 1837-1846. https://doi.org/10.1111/jce.15581
- Quicken, S., Mees, B., Zonnebeld, N., Tordoir, J., Huberts, W., & Delhaas, T. (2022). A realistic arteriovenous dialysis graft model for hemodynamic simulations. PLOS ONE, 17(7), [e0269825]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269825
- Westphal, P., Luo, H. X., Shahmohammadi, M., Heckman, L. I. B., Kuiper, M., Prinzen, F. W., Delhaas, T., & Cornelussen, R. N. (2022). Left Ventricular Pressure Estimation Using Machine Learning-Based Heart Sound Classification. Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine, 9, [763048]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2022.763048
- Koopsen, T., Van Osta, N., Van Loon, T., Van Nieuwenhoven, F. A., Prinzen, F. W., Van Klarenbosch, B. R., Kirkels, F. P., Teske, A. J., Vernooy, K., Delhaas, T., & Lumens, J. (2022). A Lumped Two-Compartment Model for Simulation of Ventricular Pump and Tissue Mechanics in Ischemic Heart Disease. Frontiers in physiology, 13, 782592. [782592]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2022.782592

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Tammo Delhaas

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