Mattijs Numans is Professor of General Practice, head of the LUMC Department Public Health and Primary Care and since 2016 professor / director of the LUMC Campus The Hague. He is the leader of the LUMC profile area "Innovative Health strategies & Quality of Care" and LUMC chairman of the University profile area "Population Health Living Lab The Hague". He is developing the two-year Master's in Population Health Management in the Campus The Hague in the LUMC strategy theme Population Health. He still holds two sessions as a GP in Utrecht (Health Center Oog in Al).

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Mattijs Numans is Professor of General Practice, head of the LUMC Department Public Health and Primary Care and since 2016 professor / director of the LUMC Campus The Hague. He is the leader of the LUMC profile area "Innovative Health strategies & Quality of Care" and LUMC chairman of the University profile area "Population Health Living Lab The Hague". He is developing the two-year Master's in Population Health Management in the Campus The Hague in the LUMC strategy theme Population Health. He still holds two sessions as a GP in Utrecht (Health Center Oog in Al).

General Practice

The LUMC Professor of General Practice is head of a department with four disciplines (in addition to General Practice, it hosts Elderly Care Medicine -SOG-, Public Health / Population Health and Medical Anthropology), organizing an important part of the LUMC bachelor and master Medical School and the two largest specialist training schools in the region (about 220 GPs and about 80 ECM). This puts him in the middle of the changing extramural health care field. A team of 7 professors appointed at the department, works together in two successful research programs, namely Geriatrics in Primary Care and Prevention, Population Health and Disease Management - PrePoD. The newly established LUMC Campus The Hague enables further development of education and research in the area of ​​Population Health Management, prevention and risk group policy, which means that the LUMC is better aligned with the extramural questions from the National Science Agenda.

Academic career

Mattijs Numans studied medicine in Utrecht and after his GP specilist training in Olst (Ov) he associated in the partnership "Huisartsen Oog in Al" in Utrecht. He obtained his PhD doctorate in 1992, also in Utrecht, based on a large-scale care innovation project in the region, with the thesis "Gastroscopy at the request of the general practitioner, determinants of relevant results". For more than 25 years he was appoiunted at the Julius Center UMC Utrecht, as lecturer and later associate professor, coordinator / initiator of the Leidsche Rijn Health Project and of the Julius GP Network. He was also founder and director of the Coöperatie Stadsmaatschap Huisartsen Utrecht (2006-2013). And in 2011 he became professor by special appointment at the VUmc in Amsterdam on the chair "Innovation and quality of the Academic Workplace Function for Family Medicine" (inaugural lecture on 28 June 2011, De Academische Werkplaats, inspiration for innovation in general practice). He was co-founder of the European Society of Primary Care Gastroenterology (1995), member of the scientific committee of the United European Gastroenterology Federation (2003-2008), was at the root of several NHG and European guidelines and supervised several PhD students. He was visiting researcher at Tufts / New England Cochrane in Boston, MA in 2001-2002. His expertise and publications are based on the (re-) use of routine care data from primary care practice for quality policy and research, diagnostics, risk assessment and population-based care in chronic disorders, the elderly, youth and mental health care. With 267 publications, he has an H-index of 43(WebOfScience 2021)