Dr. Philip Moons is Professor of Healthcare and Nursing Science at the University of Leuven, Belgium; the University of Gothenburg, Sweden; and the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He has published more than 380 articles in international, peer-reviewed journals; and presented over 330 abstracts at national and international conferences. He is mainly involved in outcome and quality of life research in congenital heart disease, and developed and implemented the role of advanced practice nurse in the Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program in Leuven. He is the driver of the APPROACH-IS and APPROACH-IS II projects, investigating patient-reported outcomes in adults with congenital heart disease in over 50 centers from more than 30 countries. The spearhead of Philip Moons' research is ‘Transition and Care’.
For his work, he received Martha N. Hill New Investigators Award 2004 from the American Heart Association and the Atie Immink New Investigators Award 2008 from the ESC.
