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Uyên Châu Nguyên wins UM Dissertation Prize 2025

Uyên Châu Nguyên wins UM Dissertation Prize 2025

29 January 2026

During the Dies Natalis of Maastricht University, Uyên Châu Nguyên received the UM Dissertation Prize 2025.

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Global research network launched to study menopause and heart health

Global research network launched to study menopause and heart health

20 January 2026

Ten international health research funders, including the Dutch Heart Foundation, are investing $10 million in a new global research network to improve early prevention of cardiovascular disease in women. The initiative focuses on understanding how menopause affects heart health and how early intervention can reduce risk.

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Twan van Stipdonk

Post doc

Dr Twan van Stipdonk studied medicine at the Maastricht University. After finishing his general medicine study, he went on to do his training in clinical cardiology. During his clinical training, he worked on the Dutch guideline for cardiac rehabilitation (2011), and later he started his PhD in the field of Cardiac Resynchronisation Therapy. Under the guidance of Prof. Frits Prinzen, Prof. Harry Crijns and Prof. Kevin Vernooy, he finished his PhD in 2019. He currently works as a heart failure and devices cardiologist at the Department of Cardiology of Maastricht UMC+. His research focusses on crossing the borders of electrophysiology and heart failure, the field of ‘electrical management of heart failure’.

 

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Department of Cardiology
Universiteitssingel 50, 6229 ER Maastricht
PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht
Room number: Cardiology department level 3
T: +31(0)43 387 71 19

  • 2025
    • van Koll, J., Luermans, J. G. L. M., Joza, J., Burri, H., Curila, K., Bressi, E., Grieco, D., van Kuijk, S. M. J., Rijks, J. H. J., van Stipdonk, A. M. W., Smits, K. C., Prinzen, F. W., Rademakers, L. M., Vernooy, K., & Nguyên, U. C. (2025). Heterogeneity in clinical judgment of septal lead position and capture type in left bundle branch area pacing. Heart Rhythm, 22(12), 3218-3227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hrthm.2025.03.1959
    • van Koll, J., Engels, M. D. E. A., Rijks, J. H. J., Salari, M., Luijten, J., Lumens, J., van Empel, V. P. M., Westra, S. W., van Stipdonk, A. M. W., Lankveld, T. A. R., Chaldoupi, S. M., Joza, J., Beukema, R. J., Luermans, J. G. L. M., Linz, D. K., & Vernooy, K. (2025). Long-term outcomes of pace-and-ablate strategy in patients with atrial fibrillation. Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology, 68(7), 1487-1495. Article 100786. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10840-025-02038-3
    • Joza, J., van Koll, J., Ramalingam, V., Tai, P., Essebag, V., Hadjis, T. A., Lankveld, T. A. R., van Stipdonk, A. M. W., Rijks, J. H. J., Nguyên, U. C., Luermans, J., Verma, A., & Vernooy, K. (2025). Implementation of lead V8 as a simple non-invasive tool to improve patient selection in cardiac resynchronization therapy and guide left ventricular lead placement. EP Europace, 27(9), Article euaf194 . https://doi.org/10.1093/europace/euaf194
    • Malgie, J., Wilde, M. I., Brunner-La Rocca, H.-P., Emans, M. E., De Boer, G. A., Siegers, C. E. P., van Stipdonk, A. M. W., Wardeh, A. J., Schaap, J., Sanders-van Wijk, S., van den Heuvel, M., Wierda, E., De Boer, R. A., Koudstaal, S., & Brugts, J. J. (2025). Newly diagnosed heart failure with reduced ejection fraction: timing, sequencing, and titration of guideline-recommended medical therapy. European Heart Journal, 46(25), 2394-2405. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehaf244
    • Lempers, T. E. M., Smits, K. C., van Koll, J., Dural, M., van Stipdonk, A. M. W., Lumens, J., Luermans, J. G. L. M., Vernooy, K., Prinzen, F. W., van Dam, P., & Nguyên, U. C. (2025). An in-silico analysis of the influence of left bundle branch block and myocardial fibrosis on electrocardiographic QRS duration and morphology and vectorcardiographic QRS area. Journal of Electrocardiology, 91, Article 154043. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jelectrocard.2025.154043
    • Gerrits, W., Wouters, P. C., Chiu, C. S. L., Guglielmo, M., Cramer, M. J., van der Harst, P., Vernooy, K., van Stipdonk, A. M. W., van Halm, V. P., van Dijk, V. F., Ghani, A., Maass, A. H., Yap, S.-C., van Slochteren, F. J., & Meine, M. (2025). Optimizing CRT Lead Placement Accuracy With CMR-Guided On-Screen Targeting: A Randomized Controlled Trial (ADVISE-CRT III). JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology, 11(6), 1293-1305. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacep.2025.01.022
    • Dural, M., Eerenberg, F., Smits, K. C., Nguyên, U. C., Vernooy, K., & van Stipdonk, A. M. W. (2025). Vectorcardiography in CRT: What We Know and What There Is to Learn. Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease, 12(5), Article 177. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcdd12050177
    • Achten, A., Weerts, J., van Koll, J., Ghossein, M., Mourmans, S. G. J., Aizpurua, A. B., van Stipdonk, A. M. W., Vernooy, K., Prinzen, F. W., Rocca, H.-P. B.-L., Knackstedt, C., & van Empel, V. P. M. (2025). Prevalence and prognostic value of ventricular conduction delay in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. IJC Heart and Vasculature, 57, Article 101622. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcha.2025.101622
    • Smits, K. C., Bressi, E., Rademakers, L. M., Rijks, J. H. J., van Stipdonk, A. M. W., Engels, E. B., Isaacs, A., Hermans, B. J. M., Grieco, D., Luermans, J. G. L. M., Vernooy, K., Prinzen, F. W., & Nguyen, U. C. (2025). Time-dependent repolarization changes following left bundle branch area pacing vs. conventional biventricular pacing in patients with dyssynchronous heart failure. EP Europace, 27(3), Article euaf034. https://doi.org/10.1093/europace/euaf034
    • Luker, J., Strik, M., Andrade, J. G., Raymond-Paquin, A., Elrefai, M. H., Roberts, P. R., Perez, O. C., Kron, J., Koneru, J., Franqui-Rivera, H., Sultan, A., Ernst, A., Schmitt, J., Pott, A., Veltmann, C., Srinivasan, N. T., Collinson, J., van Stipdonk, A. M. W., Linz, D., ... Steven, D. (2025). Incidence of premature battery depletion in subcutaneous cardioverter-defibrillator patients: insights from a multicenter registry. Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology, 68(7), 1409–1415. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10840-023-01468-1
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