Specialization
Frailty, Healthy aging, Geriatrics, Gerontology, Cohort studies
Focus of research
Dr. Emiel O. Hoogendijk is an assistant professor at the Department of Epidemiology & Data Science of Amsterdam UMC – location VU University Medical Center (VUmc) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He holds a PhD in Medicine from VUmc, where he performed his PhD research on care for frail older people at the Department of General Practice & Elderly Care Medicine. Currently, he is project manager of the Amsterdam Cohort Hub and part of the core group of the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam, and he is involved with various (international) research projects in the field of epidemiology of aging. He works, amongst others, as senior researcher and work package leader for the H2020 I-CARE4OLD project on care for older adults with complex chronic conditions.
His research focuses on challenges for healthy aging, and in particular frailty and related conditions such as malnutrition and sarcopenia. Supported by a prestigious VENI grant, he established his own frailty research line (see: https://frailty-project.nl/). He published more than 170 peer-reviewed papers in leading journals, such as American Journal of Epidemiology, European Journal of Epidemiology, The Lancet Healthy Longevity, European Journal of Internal Medicine, and Nature Aging. He published multiple papers in The Lancet: amongst others, he coordinated a Frailty series (2019): https://www.thelancet.com/series/frailty and led a review on Malnutrition in older adults (2023). Since 2025, he has been appointed as Chair of The Lancet Commission on Frailty.
Areas of expertise: Frailty in older adults, physical functioning, malnutrition, sarcopenia, social functioning, longitudinal analyses, stepped wedge RCT designs, multistate survival models. Dr. Hoogendijk supervises various PhD students and postdocs at Amsterdam UMC, and he teaches in methodological courses of the bachelor of Medicine (VUmc).
Registered as senior Epidemiologist (“Epidemioloog B” – VVE and SMBWO).
Grants and prizes: AI&I-APH Cross-institute Synergy Grant (50k euro, PI, 2025), ZonMw Passende Zorg in de WLZ (493k euro, PI, 2024), SEW research grant (100k euro, PI, 2020), VENI fellowship ZonMw/NWO (250k euro, PI, 2017), EMGO fellowship (56k euro, PI, 2016), ZonMw Nationaal Plan Hoofdzaken (650k euro, co-applicant), FWF Austria research grant (364k euro, collaborator), Regional Health Authority Norway research grant (342k euro, collaborator), Professor Schreuder award (best Dutch PhD thesis in gerontology / geriatrics), Heert Dokter award (scientific research prize Dutch College of General Practitioners), and Professor Munnichs thesis award.