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Alicia Uijl

Assistant Professor

Biography

Alicia is currently working as assistant professor in cardiovascular epidemiology, associated with the BigData@Heart consortium of the Innovative Medicines Initiative. Main fields of interest: heart failure, electronic health records, real-world data, phenotyping, causal inference and personalised medicine.

In 2016 Alicia Uijl started her PhD project on Opportunities and Challenges of Real-world Data in Heart Failure at the Julius Center for Primary Care and Health Sciences, University Medical Center Utrecht. She was under supervision of prof. dr. F.W. Asselbergs, prof. dr. A.W. Hoes, dr. S. Koudstaal and dr. I. Vaartjes.

She spent a research period abroad from September 2016 – September 2017, where she worked at the Institute for Health Informatics at University College London with CALIBER and CPRD data, United Kingdom, under supervision of dr. R.H.H. Groenwold and prof. Spiros Denaxas.

She spent a second research period abroad, at Karolinska Institutet, Sweden, where she worked from September 2018 – June 2019. Here she studied the Swedish Heart Failure registry, working together with dr. Gianluigi Savarese and prof. dr. Lars Lund. During her PhD trajectory she obtained a second Master's degree, the online post-graduate Master’s degree in Clinical Epidemiology, in 2019. In June 2020 she succesfully defended her PhD.

Recent publications

Proteomics-based clustering outperforms clinical clustering in identifying people with heart failure with distinct outcomes Marion van Vugt, Ruicong She, Isabella Kardys, Teun B Petersen, Marie de Bakker, K Martijn Akkerhuis, Kadir Caliskan, Olivier C Manintveld, Alicia Uijl, Jan van Ramshorst, Dimitris Rizopoulos, Victor Awm Umans, Eric Boersma, David E Lanfear, Folkert W Asselbergs, Jessica van Setten, A Floriaan Schmidt
Communications medicine, 2025, vol. 5
Comparing Life's Simple 7 and Life's Essential 8 With Risk of Heart Failure Inge G van Loon, Yvonne T van der Schouw, M Louis Handoko, W M Monique Verschuren, Alicia Uijl
JACC: Advances, 2025, vol. 4
Sex Differences in Acute Coronary Syndromes Anna Marzà-Florensa, Pauline Kiss, Dina Mohamed Youssef, Sara Jalali-Farahani, Fernando Lanas, Mariachiara di Cesare, José Ramón González Juanatey, Sean Taylor, Alicia Uijl, Diederick E Grobbee, Sarah Des Rosiers, Pablo Perel, Sanne A E Peters
Global Heart, 2025, vol. 20
Federated learning as a smart tool for research on infectious diseases Laura C. Zwiers, Diederick E. Grobbee, Alicia Uijl, David S.Y. Ong
BMC Infectious Diseases, 2024, vol. 24
Simplification of a registry-based algorithm for ejection fraction prediction in heart failure patients Elisa Dal Canto, Alicia Uijl, N. Charlotte Onland-Moret, Sophie H. Bots, Leonard Hofstra, Igor Tulevski, Folkert W. Asselbergs, Pim van der Harst, G. Aernout Somsen, Hester M. den Ruijter
PLoS ONE, 2024, vol. 19
Does Heterogeneity Exist in Treatment Associations With Renin–Angiotensin–System Inhibitors or Beta-blockers According to Phenotype Clusters in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction? ALICIA UIJL, STEFAN KOUDSTAAL, DAVIDE STOLFO, U. L.F. DAHLSTRÖM, ILONCA VAARTJES, RICK E. GROBBEE, FOLKERT W. ASSELBERGS, LARS H. LUND, GIANLUIGI SAVARESE
Journal of Cardiac Failure, 2024, vol. 30, p.541-551