Biography

Luk Bruyneel is a post-doctoral researcher at the Leuven Institute for Healthcare Policy at KU Leuven, Belgium. After receiving a Master’s degree in Nursing (2008), he joined the Registered Nurse Forecasting (RN4CAST) consortium, evidencing the association between nursing delivery systems and patient mortality and patient experiences with care. Luk is passionate about all aspects of hospital care that affect the delivery of safe patient care and improve patient experiences. His interest in knowledge gaps that result from methodological and statistical challenges resulted in additional Master’s degrees in Economic Policy (2013) and Statistics (2015), and a PhD in Biomedical Sciences (2015). For his PhD (2015) he was awarded the Karolinska Medical Management Center/EHMA research award for the best contribution associated with a doctoral thesis in the field of health. He has (co-)authored highly-cited research published in The Lancet, The BMJ, BMJ Quality and Safety, Medical Care, and several other health care sciences journals.