TEDxMaastricht - Coen van Veenendaal - "Just do it!"
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In the fight against cancer, both patients and their loved ones feel a huge sense of helplessness. Cancer is everywhere. Fighting it seems pointless. One in three Dutch people develop cancer. Everyone involved has firsthand experience of how dramatically their lives are affected and how destructive it can be. Alpe d'HuZes was created with the ai... Read more
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- -: TEDxMaastricht - Coen van Veenendaal - "Just do it!"
April 6, 2011 (about 13 years ago)In the fight against cancer, both patients and their loved ones feel a huge sense of helplessness. Cancer is everywhere. Fighting it seems pointless. One in three Dutch people develop cancer. Everyone involved has firsthand experience of how dramatically their lives are affected and how destructi...
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- -: TEDxMaastricht - Daniel Kraft - "What's next in healthcare?"
April 6, 2011 (about 13 years ago)There's some amazing things coming down the healthcare pipeline and Daniel Kraft ( @daniel_kraft ) knows a "little" about all of them. We asked him to take us on a rollercoaster-journey through them. Take for example regenerative medicine, which is starting to experience tremendous growth wit...
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- -: TEDxMaastricht - Frans Hiddema - "The least used resource: patient"
April 6, 2011 (about 13 years ago)The fear of becoming blind is something everybody can relate to. Just close your eyes and imagine the world will always remain dark like that. Frans Hiddema's main focus is to reduce the fear of the hospitals' patients. 'Scared patients run a higher risk of something going wrong." The less...
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- -: TEDxMaastricht - Jan Gunnarsson - "Hostmanship: the art of making people feel welcome"
April 6, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Jan Gunnarsson is a hospitality industry veteran from Sweden who exhibits a refreshing take upon customer service and leadership. Jan believes customer experience is not in the first place about strategies and tactics but about the attitude we bring. Jan talks about how the heart of a business is...
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- -: TEDxMaastricht - Luciano Floridi - "The fourth technological revolution"
April 6, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Who are we? And what is our role in the universe? Information technology is radically changing not only how we deal with the world and make sense of it, or interact with each other, but also how we look at ourselves and understand our own existence and responsibilities. Philosophy Professor Flori...
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- -: TEDxMaastricht - Luuk Simons - "From disease management to lifestyle management?"
April 6, 2011 (about 13 years ago)A long term health enthousiast and thinker. That's Luuk Simons. Luuk's mission is to empower people to be as healthy as they can be and to help them age successfully, based on life sciences findings. Luuk will talk about the lessons from successful aging research and lifestyle medicine for our pe...
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- -: TEDxMaastricht - Ragna van den Berg - "This is your captain speaking"
April 6, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Ragna (@ragnaja) started her healthcare career nursing and then moved on to become a social worker. During her years working in mental healthcare, she was an avid champion for her clients, always putting their interest and perspective first. As an e-health early adopter, she started her own busin...
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- -: TEDxMaastricht - Renger Witkamp - "Health: the ability to adapt to an ever changing environment"
April 6, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Health has always been more difficult to measure than disease and is often regarded as a vague, intangible variable. Renger shows us how there is still too much emphasis on health being viewed and studied from the perspective of disease. He will take us back to the principles of physiology and bi...
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- -: TEDxMaastricht - Sophie van der Stap - "Girl with the nine wigs"
April 6, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Sophie van der Stap was 21 years old when she was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. The girl with the nine wigs, her fresh and candid account of the illness, was a best-seller in Holland and got soon translated into 16 languages worldwide and was the inspiration for an international movie (to...
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- -: TEDxMaastricht - Wolter Mooi - "Guiding current routines of future doctors"
April 6, 2011 (about 13 years ago)Routines seldom attract attention, but have an enormous impact on our lives. In the long run, a small but sustained change of routine can constitute a breakthrough. The medical student needs to participate actively in his education. The asking and answering of large numbers of questions, not only...
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