Researcher
Julie Stevens
- Research Expertise
(Vrije Universiteit Brussel):
Julie Stevens holds a Master of Science degree in clinical psychology and completed her PhD in Social Health Science (VUB)/Health Science (UGent) in 2024, with a research focus on Advance Care Planning in general practice. During her doctoral studies, she received a predoctoral fellowship from the FWO (Research Foundation Flanders). She also has a special interest in understanding the complexity of the impact of ACP, in public health approaches to ACP and serious illness conversations, and in facilitating good patient-clinician communication about serious illness and the end of life.
Currently, she works as a postdoctoral researcher on the EU PAL-COPD project (Horizon EU), which aims to integrate palliative care into respiratory care for people with advanced COPD. In this project, a large-scale international stepped wedge cluster-randomised trial will test the effects of a service-level integrated palliative care intervention, tailored to local contexts.
Scientific expertise:
- Advance care planning
- Serious and chronic illness
- Patient-clinician communication
- General practice and primary care
- Randomised controlled trials
- Mixed methods research
- Keywords (Vrije Universiteit Brussel):Social medicine, public health and health care sciences
- Disciplines (Ghent University):Public health services, Public health sciences, Public health care
- Disciplines (Vrije Universiteit Brussel):Primary health care, Health management, Public health sciences not elsewhere classified, Elderly care
- Users of research expertise
(Vrije Universiteit Brussel):
Julie Stevens holds a Master of Science degree in clinical psychology and completed her PhD in Social Health Science (VUB)/Health Science (UGent) in 2024, with a research focus on Advance Care Planning in general practice. During her doctoral studies, she received a predoctoral fellowship from the FWO (Research Foundation Flanders). She also has a special interest in understanding the complexity of the impact of ACP, in public health approaches to ACP and serious illness conversations, and in facilitating good patient-clinician communication about serious illness and the end of life.
Currently, she works as a postdoctoral researcher on the EU PAL-COPD project (Horizon EU), which aims to integrate palliative care into respiratory care for people with advanced COPD. In this project, a large-scale international stepped wedge cluster-randomised trial will test the effects of a service-level integrated palliative care intervention, tailored to local contexts.
Scientific expertise:
- Advance care planning
- Serious and chronic illness
- Patient-clinician communication
- General practice and primary care
- Randomised controlled trials
- Mixed methods research
- See also: Julie Stevens (Ghent University)