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| − | Lennart is a grad student in Technical Medicine at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. What he loves about the program is the focus on bringing innovation to healthcare, a field that has traditionally been slow in adopting new technologies. With internships at Medtronic and the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam, | + | Lennart is a grad student in Technical Medicine at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. What he loves about the program is the focus on bringing innovation to healthcare, a field that has traditionally been slow in adopting new technologies. With internships at Medtronic and hospitals like the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam, Lennart experienced the motivational power of a shared mission and the value of inspiring colleagues. He is able to quickly find his way in diverse settings by his motivated attitude and active engagement, which helped him set out new research directions for Medtronic's Integrated Health Solutions. Currently, Lennart is graduating on a research project in collaboration with the University of Twente, Rijnstate hospital Arnhem and the Institute for Biomedical Technology at Ghent University, and funded by the Dutch Heart Foundation. By combining expertise from these institutes, he aims to improve endovascular treatment of occluded arteries through computational fluid dynamics modeling. |
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Healthcare affects all of us. Many products and ideas are out there to positively impact the way that healthcare affects us. Yet adoption is slow, let's change that! Also, I like the piano, kitesurfing and snowboarding. | Healthcare affects all of us. Many products and ideas are out there to positively impact the way that healthcare affects us. Yet adoption is slow, let's change that! Also, I like the piano, kitesurfing and snowboarding. | ||
Born and raised in Alkmaar, healthcare tech | Born and raised in Alkmaar, healthcare tech | ||
Revision as of 12:32, 7 January 2017
Lennart is a grad student in Technical Medicine at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. What he loves about the program is the focus on bringing innovation to healthcare, a field that has traditionally been slow in adopting new technologies. With internships at Medtronic and hospitals like the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam, Lennart experienced the motivational power of a shared mission and the value of inspiring colleagues. He is able to quickly find his way in diverse settings by his motivated attitude and active engagement, which helped him set out new research directions for Medtronic's Integrated Health Solutions. Currently, Lennart is graduating on a research project in collaboration with the University of Twente, Rijnstate hospital Arnhem and the Institute for Biomedical Technology at Ghent University, and funded by the Dutch Heart Foundation. By combining expertise from these institutes, he aims to improve endovascular treatment of occluded arteries through computational fluid dynamics modeling.
Healthcare affects all of us. Many products and ideas are out there to positively impact the way that healthcare affects us. Yet adoption is slow, let's change that! Also, I like the piano, kitesurfing and snowboarding.
Born and raised in Alkmaar, healthcare tech
