Prof.dr. P.C.M. van den Berg (Paul) Faculty    LUMC E-mail    pvberg@lumc.nl Phone    071 526 5018     Date of birth November 8, 1948 Place of birth Amsterdam Study Medicine Ph.D. November 26, 1991 Dissertation Cardio-pulmonary interaction: the effect of transgent airway increase on cardiac function Date of accession December 1, 2001 Inaugural lecture January 17, 2003 Paradoxes: Causes and Effects. The context of medical practice in the Intensive Care Subject Intensive care medicine

Keywords

Intensive care

My inspiration

In the reality of today’s clinical practice the focus is directed at evidence based medicine. However, the reality is that most of our thinking is based on models. Evaluating and analyzing the human physiology with models I developed and more specifically models elucidating the complexity of the respiratory and cardiovascular physiology in critically ill patients inspires me. To educate students in modeling of these systems and to relate this to relevant clinical reasoning is what I am aiming at. The research in my department is focused on the same topic. We investigate the fundamental hemostatic physiologic principles and analyze these principles in models which could direct the analysis of clinical problems.