Chief Quality Officer UMCeXpert, Director of the Society Personalized Healthcare; Netherlands

Nico van Weert is one of the founders of the Dutch Society Personalized Healthcare and its current director. The Society aims to spread and develop personalized healthcare. Furthermore he is employed as the Program Director Quality-based Governance by Q! for quality consultancy in healthcare and healthcare policy. Nico formerly was appointed for five years (starting from 2015) by The Netherlands Federation of University Medical Centres (NFU) to coordinate the NFU-consortium Quality of Care, the collaboration of all 8 Dutch university medical centres on quality of care. The consortium established a new patient-centred approach of quality in specialty care. Nico has been responsible for innovation in healthcare delivery, quality improvement and reporting in Atrium Medical Centre, a large teaching hospital. He is trained in medical sociology and healthcare delivery and holds a PhD of the medical faculty of Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Nico van Weert and the NFU-consortium member Jan Hazelzet were editors of the book Personalized Specialty Care – Value-Based Healthcare frontrunners from the Netherlands, published by Springer in 2021.