Position: Project Administrator INDICATE

Who am I?

I am originally from California and hold both a BA and MSc in Political Science, specializing in Public Policy and Governance. During my studies, I participated in the UCDC program and completed a semester abroad at Bocconi University. My background combines academic training in politics, law, and governance with experience in international and policy-oriented environments.

What do I do in INDICATE?

Within INDICATE, I work as a Project Administrator supporting the Project Manager, Lisanne van Prooyen Schuurman, and the coordination team. My role focuses on the day-to-day administrative and organizational support of the consortium, including assisting with technical and financial reporting, organizing meetings and preparing minutes, supporting communication between partners and with the European Commission, and helping track project milestones and deadlines.

What motivates me to be part of INDICATE?

I am motivated by contributing to an international research collaboration that focuses on improving intensive care through ethical and privacy-preserving data use. INDICATE’s federated approach to health data is particularly meaningful, as it enables collaboration across Europe while ensuring patient data remains protected within hospitals. I value being part of a project that combines governance, innovation, and real-world healthcare impact.

What do I expect to accomplish within INDICATE?

I aim to support the smooth implementation of the project by ensuring that coordination, communication, and administrative processes run effectively across the consortium. I also hope to strengthen my experience in supporting large-scale European collaborations and contribute to maintaining clear structures that help the project meet its milestones and deliverables.

How does my background or expertise contribute to INDICATE’s goals?

My academic background in Political Science and Public Policy and Governance provides a strong foundation for understanding institutional structures, governance frameworks, and multi-stakeholder collaboration within European projects. My professional experience across policy, legal, and organizational environments has strengthened my ability to support structured communication, manage detailed processes, and work across diverse teams. This allows me to contribute to the effective coordination and administration that supports INDICATE’s goal of building a secure federated infrastructure for intensive care data across Europe.

Position: Project manager INDICATE

Who am I & what do I do?

My name is Lisanne van Prooyen Schuurman. I started my career as a PhD student at Erasmus MC and later transitioned to the Datahub, where I currently work as Operations Manager. In addition to this role, I serve as Project Manager for INDICATE. I also lead the coordination of other grant applications that are written or supported by the Datahub.

What am I up to during INDICATE?

I am the Project Manager of INDICATE. My main responsibility is to oversee the day-to-day coordination of the project, ensuring that timelines are met and deliverables are completed on time and at the right quality. I act as the central point of contact for consortium members, answering their questions or connecting them with the appropriate person within the project. I also handle communication with the European Commission (EC), monitor compliance with EC obligations, and ensure all required reporting and documentation is organized and submitted accordingly. In this role, I support the project’s Principal Investigators Michel van Genderen and Christian Jung in fulfilling their responsibilities under the grant agreement, and I work closely with Jan van den Brand, the project’s Technical Lead, who manages the project’s content.

What motivates me to be part of INDICATE?

As a researcher, I have personally experienced how crucial data availability is for conducting meaningful research, but also how challenging it can be to access data, especially across hospital boundaries. At the same time, I see a constant wave of new technical innovations and tools that could truly improve healthcare, but whose potential remains untapped due to data inaccessibility. I see INDICATE as a unique opportunity to take a first step in changing this. Starting with the ICU (a critical domain in light of aging populations and potential future pandemics) I believe this project lays the foundation for a larger, scalable data infrastructure that can unlock the value of health data across Europe.

What do I expect to accomplish within INDICATE?

Personally, I hope to successfully guide the project toward a strong and impactful result, where cross-border data is made accessible to various end users: researchers, clinicians, nurses, start-ups, governments, and more. I want to ensure every consortium partner feels heard and involved, and to serve as the “spider in the web” connecting all the fantastic 150 members from 30 different institutions who are contributing to this effort. I am confident that with this incredible team, we will have a fully functional infrastructure by 2028, complete with the governance mechanisms required to continue growing and evolving beyond the project’s end.

How does my background or expertise contribute to the goals of INDICATE?

With a background in econometrics, I’m comfortable working with data and analytics. Combined with my hands-on research experience in a hospital setting, this gives me a solid understanding of both the necessity and complexity of the INDICATE project. It allows me to engage with the content, contribute to discussions, and grasp the broader context. In my role as Project Manager, this helps me ask the right questions and make meaningful connections across the six work packages. This is something I see as essential for navigating the interdependencies in such a large and multidisciplinary project.

Position: Work Package 5 leader

I am a Surgeon and an Intensive Care Specialist and Head of the Intensive Care Department at General Hospital “KAT” a Trauma Center in Athens Greece. I have studied and trained in Canada, UK and Greece and hold degrees in Biology, Medicine, Public Health and a PhD in Medicine and Clinical Research. I have been working in Intensive Care units since 1999. I am presently the President of the Hellenic Society of Intensive Care Medicine (HSICM) and the Treasurer of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM).

What am I up to during INDICATE?

For the INDICATE project, my colleagues from the EIT HEALTH and the CRADEQ teams with the endorsement of the ESICM and I are leading Work Package 5 (WP5), which focuses on Dissemination, Exploitation and Communication of the project’s outputs to the relevant target groups and stakeholders including data providers, data users, service providers, healthcare workforce, systems and public authorities.
 

Position: Work Package 5

Excited to work together on INDICATE!

I’m Maarten Ligtenberg and the co-founder of Cradeq along with Bram van Dalen. The objective of Cradeq is to promote understanding and purpose in professional practice by stimulating collaboration on sharing both education and knowledge among health care institutions. To that end we develop and implement web applications for education and information management with a specific focus on medicine and data science.



Within INDICATE as Cradeq we are mainly responsible for the development of educational material, infrastructure onboarding training, and documentation. We do this in close collaboration with the team members of Work Package 5 Dissemination, Exploitation and Communication. Aiming to ensure the effective, correct, and secure use of the INDICATE infrastructure by all different kinds of end users.



P.S. Did you know that “INDICATE” literally means “towards making known”? That’s precisely what we strive to do – make data and outcomes known to advance patient-centered care.
 

Position: member External Expert Advisory Board

Maurizio Cecconi is an anesthesiologist, intensive care specialist, and Chair of Anesthesia and Intensive Care Units at Humanitas Research Hospital in Milan, Italy. He is the Vice Scientific Director for Clinical Research, and the Vice President of the joint Medicine-Bioengineering degree “MEDTEC School” at Humanitas University in Milan. 

He studied in Italy (University of Udine), Spain (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid), the UK (St George’s University of London), and the USA (Harvard Medical School), He worked for 14 years as an NHS Consultant UK, before joining Humanitas in Milan, Italy in 2018.

He has authored more than 450 peer-reviewed articles and an H-Index of 95. His research focuses on improving outcomes in perioperative care, data science and artificial intelligence, and the physiology of shock, acute respiratory failure, and sepsis.

He is the past President of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, which he led through the COVID-19 pandemic. He designed and directed the EU-funded C19_SPACE training course, which provided 20,000 healthcare workers with practical training in record time during the pandemic. He is part of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign and has collaborated with WHO on the COVID-19 and Influenza Clinical Guidelines.

In 2018, the Italian president nominated him Knight of the Order of Merit (O.M.R.I) of the Italian Republic.

For INDICATE, he collaborates with WP5, is member of the External Expert Advisory Board via ESICM and leads the work related to INDICATE at his University.

Position: Work Package 5

I am Margo van Mol. With a background as ICU nurse, including 25 years of clinical experience, and educated as health psychologist, I currently work as assistant professor. My research interests focus on the emotional impact of critical illness on patients and their relatives and developing (digital) interventions to support them during and after an ICU treatment. 

For INDICATE, I contribute in WP5 Dissemination, Exploitation, and Communication from my role as chair of Nurses & Allied Healthcare Professionals committee of ESICM (2024-2026). I expect to help bridging a discrepancy in what ICU nurses know about data sharing and what is possible to improve the quality of their work. I find it essential to develop nursing data on-boarding and education on digital skills that goes beyond the already established basic competencies.