Netherlands Federation of University Medical Centres, Netherlands Ministry of Health, Netherlands Healthcare Institute; Netherlands

Arie Franx (1961) trained at the medical school of the Free University in Amsterdam and specialized in obstetrics and gynaecology in Utrecht and Tilburg, the Netherlands.

He holds a PhD degree of Utrecht University. In 2019 he was appointed at Erasmus MC in Rotterdam on the chair Obstetrics in particular the lifecourse approach of fetal development and maternal health. Arie supervised over 60 PhD students and co-authored over 370 scientific papers and four handbooks. Arie’s h-index is currently 46. His research topics include organisation and quality of health care.

He works on value based health care with the Netherlands Federation of University Medical Centres, the Ministry of Health and the Netherlands Healthcare Institute and the International Consortium of Health Outcome Measurement (www.ichom.org). Arie is co-founder and co-chairman of the Linnean Initiative (www.linnean.nl), a nationwide multidisciplinary network aiming to accelerate the implementation of value based healthcare in the Netherlands.