Biographical Sketch

Following his PhD defense in 2011 Trappenburg was appointed as assistant professor at the department of Rehabilitation, Nursing Science and Sports at the University Medical Center of Utrecht. His main scientific focus is on self-management in chronic disease, particularly in patients with COPD. He is project leader of the TASTE (TAilored Self-managemenT & E-Health) research program, a unique international scientific consortium granted by the The Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw). Through TASTE he made an important contribution to unravelling success of self-management interventions (incl. eHealth), identifying the barriers and opportunities for customized (tailoring mechanisms) self-management support, and the development and evaluation of innovative tailored solutions in chronic disease patient.

Trappenburg is founder and coordinator of Appl@b, an academic platform in the UMC Utrecht, focusing at user-centered development (scientific engineering) and evaluation of mHealth solutions in collaboration with strong partners from both IT and Creative industry. From 2016 Appla@b has merged into The Healthcare Innovation Center (THINC.) where he is now appointed as board member.

From 2016 Trappenburg is scientific coordinator of the Uzelf program (Utrecht Regional Innovation Ecosystem on Self-management), which aims to position the Utrecht region as a model region for self-management through the development of a coherent and highly competitive regional open-innovation landscape (ecosystem) where companies, researchers, policy makers, health professionals, governments and citizens / patients collaborate in user-centered development, implementation and scaling of sustainable and ground-breaking products and services in the field of self-management, supported by ICT (eHealth) and solutions from the creative industry.

Interests and Focus

• Chronic disease management
• Self-management & behavior change
• eHealth / mHealth
• scientific engineering, user-centered development
• Healthcare innovation

Key Publications

• Do Self-Management Interventions Work in Patients With Heart Failure? An Individual Patient Data Meta-Analysis.

  1. Jonkman NH, Westland H, Groenwold RH, Ågren S, Atienza F, Blue L, Bruggink-André de la Porte PW, DeWalt DA, Hebert PL, Heisler M, Jaarsma T, Kempen GI, Leventhal ME, Lok DJ, Mårtensson J, Muñiz J, Otsu H, Peters-Klimm F, Rich MW, Riegel B, Strömberg A, Tsuyuki RT, van Veldhuisen DJ, Trappenburg JC, Schuurmans MJ, Hoes AW. Circulation, 2016 Feb 12

• Characteristics of effective self-management interventions in patients with COPD: individual patient data meta-analysis

  2. Jonkman NH, Westland H, Trappenburg JC, Groenwold RH, Bischoff EW, Bourbeau J, Bucknall CE, Coultas D, Effing TW, Epton M, Gallefoss F, Garcia-Aymerich J, Lloyd SM, Monninkhof EM, Nguyen HQ, van der Palen J, Rice KL, Sedeno M, Taylor SJ, Troosters T, Zwar NA, Hoes AW, Schuurmans MJ Eur Respir J, 2016 Jul;48(1):55-68.

• Patient and disease characteristics associated with activation for self-management in patients with diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic heart failure and chronic renal disease: a cross-sectional survey study

  4. Bos-Touwen I, Schuurmans M, Monninkhof EM, Korpershoek Y, Spruit-Bentvelzen L, Ertugrul-van der Graaf I, de Wit N, Trappenburg J PLoS One., 2015 May 7;10(5)

• Effect of an action plan with ongoing support by a case manager on exacerbation-related outcome in patients with COPD: a multicentre randomised controlled trial.

  3. Trappenburg JC, Monninkhof EM, Bourbeau J, Troosters T, Schrijvers AJ, Verheij TJ, Lammers JW Thorax, 2011 Jul 23

• The impact of using different symptom-based exacerbation algorithms in patients with COPD

  5. Trappenburg JC, van Deventer AC, Troosters T, Verheij TJ, Schrijvers AJ, Lammers JW, Monninkhof EM. Eur Resp J, 2011 May;37(5):1260-8

• Increased mortality following telemonitoring in frail elderly patients: look before you leap!

  Trappenburg J, Groenwold R, Schuurmans M. Arch Intern Med, 2012 Nov 12;172(20):1612

• Definition of a COPD self-management intervention: International Expert Group consensus.

  Effing TW, Vercoulen JH, Bourbeau J, Trappenburg J, Lenferink A, Cafarella P, Coultas D, Meek P, van der Valk P, Bischoff EW, Bucknall C, Dewan NA, Early F, Fan V, Frith P, Janssen DJ, Mitchell K, Morgan M, Nici L, Patel I, Walters H, Rice KL, Singh S, Zuwallack R, Benzo R, Goldstein R, Partridge MR, van der Palen J. Eur Resp J, 2016 Jul;48(1):46-54

• Self-management: one size does not fit all

  Trappenburg J, Jonkman N, Jaarsma T, van Os-Medendorp H, Kort H, de Wit N, Hoes A, Schuurmans M Patient Educ Couns, 2013 Jul;92(1):134-7

All Pubmed publications

• Link to all of this author's publications

Related Links

• The Healthcare Innovation Center (THINC.)

• TAilored Self-managemenT & eHealth (TASTE)

• Uzelf: Utrecht Innovation Ecosystem on Self-management & eHealth

• Researchgate profile

• Linkedin profile

• Google scholar profile