Sabina De Geest

Sabina De Geest, PhD, RN, FAAN, FEAN, FRCN, FAHA, FESC is a Professor of Nursing and Chair of the Department Public Health of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Basel (Switzerland), and part-time Professor of Nursing at the KU Leuven in Belgium. She holds adjunct faculty positions at the Johns Hopkins University, University of Pittsburgh and New York University (USA). She leads the Leuven Basel Research Group, an international, interdisciplinary research group focusing on behavioural and psychosocial issues in solid organ & stem cell transplantation. She is leading the Psychosocial Interest Group of the Swiss Transplant Cohort Study, a nation-wide prospective cohort study in Switzerland. Driven by implementation science methodology, her research portfolio focuses on the development of innovative care models partially powered by eHealth. In addition, her research addresses psychosocial and behavioural pathways and their relation to outcomes in chronic illness as well as the development and testing of instruments to assess patient reported outcomes. She is a co-founder of the Swiss Implementation science Network (https://impact-dph.unibas.ch/).