Delphine De Smedt, PhD, has a master in biomedical sciences (2006) a master in business economics (2007) an a PhD in medical sciences (2014). She started her professional career as attaché at the RIZIV/INAMI (Dienst voor geneeskundige verzorging/Le Service des soins de santé). Since august 2008, she has been working at the Ghent University, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, first as junior researcher and PhD student, later as FWO post-doctoral fellow and since 2017, as assistant professor. In January 2014, she obtained her PhD entitled ‘Health-related quality of life and psychological distress in patients with coronary heart disease’ for which she was nominated as Laureate faculty doctoral price 2013-2014.
Delphine De Smedt is experienced in health economics and epidemiology. Her main research interest are related to health-related quality of life, disease burden, disease modelling and health economic evaluations. Delphine De Smedt is national coordinator of the EUROASPIRE survey, which has the aim to assess whether the guidelines on cardiovascular prevention are being follow in clinical practice. Within this European project, she acts as principal investigator for the EUROASPIRE health economics project. Furthermore, she is the main supervisor of the QAPICHE study, which has the aim to investigate the health-related quality of life in adults with chronic diseases. Furthermore, she is activily involved in the research activities of the European Society of Cardiology.
Delphine De Smedt has extensive experience in measuring patients reported outcomes, and in cost-effectiveness analysis. She has published over 45 publications, and has an H-index=16 (ISI).
