Clinical chemist Marc Thelen has been appointed professor by special appointment of Quality in Medical Laboratory Care at Radboud University / Radboudumc from 1 March 2019. The chair was made possible by the Quality Assurance of Medical Laboratory Diagnostics (SKML).
Marc Thelen (1967) works as a specialist in laboratory medicine and medical manager at the Amphia Breda laboratory for clinical chemistry and hematology. He is also director of the SKML.The chair has been embedded in the Laboratory Medicine department of the Radboud university medical center. With this, both parties intend to give an impulse to the scientific development of quality in medical laboratory diagnostics through research, education and network utilisation.Central theme will be the relationship between the measurability of the analytical quality of laboratory determinations and the medical decisions that are (partly) made based on their outcome.
Analytical quality of medical laboratory diagnostics
The leading position of the SKML in the world of the analytical quality of medical laboratory diagnostics, combined with the enormous wealth of data in the SKML database and the embedding of Thelen in (inter)national networks concerning quality care provide excellent opportunities to achieve those ambitions.
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