Postdoc
Amsterdam UMC, Netherlands
My name is Benjamin Gravesteijn MD PhD, and I work as a resident not yet in training and postdoc at Amsterdam UMC, in the Netherlands. I have a background as epidemiologist, and have completed my PhD in medical decision making at the Erasmus MC, Rotterdam. My work focuses on state-of-the art analysis of large observational datasets, in order to improve descriptive, predictive, and causal questions. My work does not focus on one particular problem, but rather I like to employ any appropriate analysis to various relevant clinical questions. Lately, my work focuses on obstetrics, given the many interesting decision-making problems in the field.
I am most interested in organisation of maternity care: where many opinions often make organisation of maternity care seen as "political", I strive to provide more neutral and rational evidence for "wicked" problems about how to organise maternity care.
My postdoc project, PREPARE, focuses on evaluating the net effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal and neonatal care. In this project, I have made use of the "natural experiment" that the COVID-19 pandemic represented. On the one hand was the COVID-19 pandemic an extraordinary period of time, which needs to be evaluated to be prepared for the future. On the other does this "natural experiment" enables us to learn how to better organize maternity care, also outside of a pandemic.
Send me an email if you want to discuss any decision making problem in organisation of maternity care. I'd be happy to help, or start new collaborations!