Prof. dr. Kirsten Colpaert is a dual-certified specialist in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (2001), currently serving as both Senior ICU physician and Medical Director and founder of the Data Science Institute of Ghent University Hospital. She devides her time between ICU and DSI. She combines clinical leadership with an academic appointment at Ghent University, as Associate Professor, where she teaches and supervises research in intensive care and medical data science. Her scientific focus lies in clinical decision support systems (CDSS), and translational applications of data science in critical care.
Domains of expertise
- Data Science
- Intensive Care
- Neuro-ICU
- Sedation
- Burn
Selected projects & research platforms
- The M@tric project is a joint and ambitious “Big Data” project of the 3 ICUs of the university hospitals of Antwerpen (UZA), Ghent (UZ Gent) and Leuven (UZ Gasthuisberg Leuven) with the aim of performing advanced clinical research in critically ill patients.
The core of the M@tric is a database containing high-quality and complexly interrelated data from all adult patients annually admitted since 2013 to the intensive care units (ICUs) of the participating university hospitals. (Website: Home)
Selected publications
- Towards the Common Data Model for an Intensive Medicine Data Space in Europe. Parra-Calderón CL, Alvarez-Romero C, González-López M, Rodríguez-Mejías S, Colpaert K, Balzer F, Delange B, Cuggia M, Delamarre D, Daniel C, Moinat M, van den Brand J, van Genderen ME, Fleuren L, Jung C. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2025 May 15;327:527-531
- Building a Foundation for High-Quality Health Data: Multihospital Case Study in Belgium. Declerck J, Vandenberk B, Deschepper M, Colpaert K, Cool L, Goemaere J, Bové M, Staelens F, De Meester K, Verbeke E, Smits E, De Decker C, Van Der Vekens N, Pauwels E, Vander Stichele R, Kalra D, Coorevits P. JMIR Med Inform. 2024 Dec 20
- Restrictive vs Liberal Transfusion Strategy in Patients With Acute Brain Injury: The TRAIN Randomized Clinical Trial. Taccone FS, Rynkowski CB, Møller K, Lormans P, Quintana-Díaz M, Caricato A, Cardoso Ferreira MA, Badenes R, Kurtz P, Søndergaard CB, Colpaert K, Petterson L, Quintard H, Cinotti R, Gouvêa Bogossian E, Righy C, Silva S, Roman-Pognuz E, Vandewaeter C, Lemke D, Huet O, Mahmoodpoor A, Blandino Ortiz A, van der Jagt M, Chabanne R, Videtta W, Bouzat P, Vincent JL; TRAIN Study Group. JAMA. 2024 Nov 19;332(19):1623-163
Work details
- kirsten.colpaert@ugent.be
- Corneel Heymanslaan 10, 9000 Gent
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirsten-colpaert-dsi
- ORCID number 0000-0003-2515-1713