Arno W. Hoes studied medicine at the Catholic University Nijmegen and graduated in 1986. From 1987 he worked at the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, where he was trained in clinical epidemiology. He obtained his PhD degree in 1992. In 1991 he was appointed assistant professor of clinical epidemiology and general practice at both the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics and the Department of General Practice at the Erasmus Medical Center. At the latter department, he headed the research line “Cardiovascular disease in primary care”. In 1996, he moved to the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care of the University Medical Center in Utrecht, where he was appointed professor of Clinical Epidemiology and General Practice in 1998.

His clinical research topics include the diagnosis, prognosis and therapeutic interventions in cardiovascular disease (mainly heart failure and coronary heart disease) as well as preventive cardiology.

His teaching experience includes courses on study design, clinical epidemiology, diagnostic research, drug risk assessment and cardiovascular disease. Since 1998 he is a member of the Dutch Medicines Evaluation Board. He has (co-)authored around 300 papers in peer-reviewed journals and is a member of several editorial boards, including the European Journal of Heart Failure and scientific committees in the Netherlands and abroad.

Visits to the Department

Dates	Occasion
April 2008	Meeting with the Department on the “Asia Europe Clinical Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Medicine Programme”
November 2007	Launch of the “Asia Europe Clinical Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Medicine Programme” and faculty for the “Advanced Diagnostic Research: Theory and Practice” workshop.
April 2007	As part of the group who accompanied Prof J.C. Stoof the Dean of the University Medical Center, Utrecht, the Netherlands for the visit to Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya and the signing of the MOU with the University of Malaya.
December 2006	Faculty member for the Regional Workshop on Evidence-Based Medicine: Clinical Epidemiology as a Tool for Evidence-Based Practice.
November 2005	Courtesy visit to the University of Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) in view of setting up a collaborative centre with UMMC