Professor Richard Grol

Professor Richard Grol studied law and psychology and was trained as a psychotherapist before entering health services research. He is professor of 'Quality of Care' at the Radboud University Nijmegen and holds a chair at Maastricht University and is guest professor at the university of Louvain, Belgium and Manchester University. He is director of IQ healthcare, one of the leading scientific institutes on the field of quality and safety in healthcare in Europe.
Prof. Grol was (co)author on over 500 scientific publications and lead author or (co)editor of over 25 books. He successfully supervised 60 PhD theses so far.

Prof. Grol was founder and president (for 10 years) of the European Association for Quality in Primary Care (EQuiP), as well as advisor of the Dutch College of GPs for many years. He is member of the Health Council of the Netherlands and serves on many national and international advisory boards and committees (e.g. chair of the Scientific college for Physiotherapy, member of Committee on HTA, Advisor Commonwealth Fund etc). He received a Honorary Fellowship and Lifetime Career Award of the World Organization of Family Doctors in 2004, and a Honorary Fellowship of the Royal College of General Practitioners in the UK in 2005. In 2006 he got a Royal Award: Order of the Dutch Lion (Ridder in de Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw) for the unique scientific work on quality in health care. In 2009 he received the ‘Universiteitspenning’ (University Award) of Radboud University Nijmegen.