معرفی
Xavier G.L.V. Pouwels serves as Assistant Professor at the Health Technology & Services Research department within the TechMed Centre at the University of Twente. His academic work bridges health economics, medical technology assessment, and open science initiatives, with particular focus on cardiovascular disease modeling and cost-effectiveness analysis frameworks.
His research spans Cost-Effectiveness Analysis, Health Care Economics, and Medical Decision Modeling, with significant contributions to cardiovascular interventions, albuminuria screening programs, and open-source health economic modeling tools. His work demonstrates strong integration of probabilistic analysis methods with clinical applications, particularly in cardiology and stroke prevention.
Dr. Pouwels has developed influential open-science resources including the Probabilistic Analysis Check dashBOARD (PACBOARD) and educational materials for R programming in Health Technology Assessment. His publication trends show increasing focus on model validation frameworks, open-source economic modeling, and practical implementation of health technology assessment tools in clinical decision-making.
- h-index 10 (Scopus)
- 266 Citations (Scopus)
His collaborative work includes significant contributions to ISPOR Special Interest Group reports and multi-institutional studies on disease modeling frameworks. Current activities focus on advancing open science practices within health care technology education and developing reusable disease modeling blueprints through expert consensus building.
Dr. Pouwels leads the PACBOARD initiative for systematic validation of health economic models and contributes to open science education through Zenodo-hosted resources on R Markdown and open science principles. His work emphasizes transparency, reproducibility, and practical implementation of economic modeling in healthcare decision-making.
