Frank Hoebers

Research Fellow

 

Frank Hoebers, MD PhD is a Radiation Oncologist at Maastro, the Netherlands and an assistant professor at the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences of Maastricht University, the Netherlands. Currently, he is a visiting research-scholar at AIM Harvard Medical School and Brigham Women’s Hospital.

He received his training in Radiation Oncology at the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Dr. Hoebers obtained his PhD from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He has completed a fellowship in head and neck radiation oncology at the Department of Radiation Oncology at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto, Canada.

As a Radiation Oncologist he is combining a clinical appointment with a research position. His scientific research has been focused on the identification of predictive and prognostic factors in head and neck cancer and he has received several national and international research-grants in this field.

He has a special interest in the clinical applications of artificial intelligence in medicine, which will contribute to the concept of personalized medicine. Through this research he wants to narrow the gap between clinicians and data-scientists in the field of AI, increase the acceptance in the medical community and ultimately improve implementation.

For his current position at AIM, dr. Hoebers has been award a personal research fellowship by the Hanarth Fund on a project entitled “Predicting radiological extranodal extension in oropharyngeal carcinoma patients using AI”.

 

email: fhoebers@bwh.harvard.edu

 

linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frank-hoebers-43608265/

 
 

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