Prof. Koen De Blok

Change management in Hospital Health Care architecture, with special attention for the interaction between highest management (CEO, COO and CMO) and the health care professionals. Developer of a change in Hospital Care Strategy and Location/Layout, based on units where the complexity of care is the guiding theme, in stead of partition based of medical specialism. Project management in Hospital IT, and Quality related programmes Active in clinical medicin as internist, nephrologist and intensive care specialist. Over the past years innovation in the field of Home Hemodialysis and recently developed the concept of extra-hospital Hemodialysis and Outpatient Clinic Nephrology in small units, even more closer to the patients. Winner of the Innovation Award of the Dutch Hospital Society Health Care Innovation Conference 2015. See also www.nvz-ziekenhuizen.nl, „…… Op 4 februari 2015 organiseerde de NVZ een invitational conference over innovatie. Ga naar de pagina Krachtig innoveren”. Winner of the Spirit of Planetree Award 2015, with the Home Haemodialysis Project. Planetree is founded in 1978 in the USA, and is the Global Leader in Advancing Patient-Centered Care. See also www.planetree.org Specialties: strategy – visionary view – health care development – team building – intensive care medicin and nephrology

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