prof. dr. Mark van den Boogaard

About Mark van den Boogaard

Mark van den Boogaard, RN, Ph.D., has a background as an ICU nurse and works as full professor at the department of intensive care of the Radboud university medical center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. He studied nursing science at the university of Utrecht (2000-2005) and started his Ph.D in 2007 at the Radboud university. In 2012 he successfully (cum laude) defended his Ph.D. In September 2023 he was appointed as full professor of Nursing Science in Acute and Intensive Care, and is leading three research lines. One on ICU delirium with a special interest in prediction and prevention, leading several multicenter and multinational cohort studies and RCTs. The second line is focused on long-term outcomes of ICU-survivors where he is the co-project leader of the MONITOR-IC study (https://monitor-ic.nl/CMS/articles/view/english) A multicenter cohort study including thousands of ICU survivors with a long-term follow-up collecting data of patient-reported outcomes, medical outcomes and costs obtained from health insurance companies. These data will be used to develop and implement treatment policies both in and outside of the ICU to prevent and mitigate PICS symptoms. MONITOR-IC represents the largest ICU long-term outcome project worldwide. The third line is on personalized ICU care. This line was recently set up and the first steps are made in this field. Mark has a special interest in ICU topics regarding: delirium, long-term outcome of ICU survivors, PICS, quality of life, personalized care, fundamentals of care, prediction studies, prevention studies, nurse related studies. He is supervisor of many Bachelor and Master students (a.o. nursing, medicine, epidemiology, psychology) and co-supervisor of several Ph.D students (8 successfully finished and 7 ongoing). He received several grants regarding delirium research and long-term outcome research, including shared decision making from ZonMw, ZorgInstituut Nederland and Promotiefonds of Radboud. He is invited on several international congress as (keynote-)speaker (ESICM, EDA, ADS, EfCCNa), he is executive board member of the European Delirium Association (EDA), advisory board member of Network for Investigation Delirium Unifying Scientists (NIDUS) and editorial board member of Journal of Critical Care, and associated editor of Intensive and Critical Care Nursing. Furthermore, he is member of several ICU related guidelines (pain, agitation, delirium, immobility, sleep, sedation and post-ICU care) in the Netherlands (2024) and in the United States (PADIS guideline 2018). Furthermore is the organizer of fellow-suffers meetings (lotgenoten contact IC-cafés) for former ICU patients and families.With his scientific contributions he won several prizes and awards.

Mark has a special interest in ICU topics regarding delirium, long-term outcome of ICU survivors, PICS, quality of life, personalized care, fundamentals of care, prediction studies, prevention studies, nurse related studies

ResearchID: N-5857-2014

Orchid: 0000-0003-4233-2903 

BIG registery number: 39008639030

Personal prizes & awards

• Radboud Scientist Award 2019 for Radboud Institute for Health Sciences
• Winner of Dr. Peter Moleman Penning 2018 for Best Publication in Psychopharmacy
• Winner Anna Reynvaan Award (Scientific Prize), May 2015 for the article: “Recalibration of the Delirium Prediction Model for ICU Patients (PRE-DELIRIC): A Multinational Observational Study”
• Best Poster Presentation at European Delirium Association Congress in Leuven, September 2013: “Comparison of Wrist Actigraphy and Video-Based Actigraphy for Delirium Detection in ICUs”
• Nomination for the Dutch Anna-Reynvaan Award 2013 for the article: “PRE-DELIRIC, PREdiction of DELIRium in ICU Patients; Development and Validation of a Delirium Prediction Model for Intensive Care”
• Winner NCEBP PhD Award 2012 for Best Thesis: “Delirium in Intensive Care Patients: Detection, Impact, Prediction, Prevention, and Biomarkers”
• Rose Mary Crow Award of International Journal of Nursing Science 2012, 2nd place (Runner-Up).
• Nomination for the Dutch Anna-Reynvaan Award (Scientific Prize), May 2011 for the article: “The Impact of Delirium on the Prediction of In-Hospital Mortality in Intensive Care Patients”
• Nomination for the Dutch Anna-Reynvaan Award (Scientific Prize), May 2010 for the article: “Implementation of a Delirium Assessment Tool in the ICU Can Influence Haloperidol Use”
• Best Oral Presentation Award 2010 at NVIC Congress: “Predict, Prediction of Delirium in ICU Patients; Development of a Prediction Model”

Additional Functions

• Associate Editor Intensive and Critical Care Nursing (ICCN)
• Board Member Foundation NICE (National Intensive Care Evaluation) Unpaid
• Advisory Board Member Network for Investigation of Delirium Unifying Scientists (NIDUS)
• Board Member European Delirium Association
• Member Guideline NVIC (PADIS Guideline) and ICU Post-ICU Care Guideline