Ellen Coeckelberghs, PhD

Ellen Coeckelberghs is a post-doctoral researcher at the Leuven Institute for Healthcare Policy at KU Leuven, coordinator of the Belgian-Dutch clinical pathway network (www.nkp.be) and membership manager of the European Pathway Association (www.e-p-a.org). She is involved in national and international research about care pathways. She co-authored the national care pathway for low back pain, that was commissioned by the Belgian Health Care Knowledge Center. Internationally, she performed projects on care Pathways for Nutrition problems in gastro-intestinal cancer surgery patients and geriatric hip fractures. In 2018, she started an improvement collaborative with 18 flemish hospitals to improve care for patients undergoing colorectal surgery (BIC4CRC). In 2019 and 2020, other improvement collaboratives were initiated for different pathologies (geriatric hip fracture care, stroke and breast cancer) with each more than 25 participating hospitals. Moreover she is involved in projects regarding patient centered care (“In search of Mangomoments”), second victims after adverse events (both national and international), care process organization and optimalisation of quality of care.