The healthcare industry faces more challenges than ever before: shortage of skilled personnel, a rising demand for healthcare services, and healthcare budgets that are under significant pressure. At the same time, the influence of exponential growth in technology and the changing attitude of patients result in changing patient care models.

Lucien Engelen (1962) is the initiator and director of the Radboud REshape & Innovation Centre at the Radboud University Medical Centre (RUNMC). The Innovation Center studies technology trends and oversees their practical implementation in patient care. Lucien is also head of the Regional Acute Healthcare Network and advisor of the Executive Board of RUNMC. In 2011 he initiated the Radboud REshape Academy, offering Masterclasses on the current changes in patient care.

Lucien is originator of “The Future of Health” TEDxMaastricht, that was first organized in 2011 and faculty of the Singularity University/FutureMed track (founded by Google, NASA and Autodesk) in Silicon Valley. He is Mentor Health at The Founder Institute Amsterdam and together with the Mayo Clinic, he started a Global Social Media Network for Healthcare. With Roni Zeiger (Google) he founded MyHealthStory.me.

Central to his thinking, doing, and inspiration is what he calls Participatory Healthcare. 
”Their health is taken away from them, their data is being kept away from them, and we make choices for them. Patients want to be involved in their own diseases again.”

Testimonials for Lucien Engelen:

“Dear all, I have become knowing Lucien as one of those people who really stands up for novel fashioned patient empowerment. He has the ability to initiate new ideas and implement them by an authentic enthusiasm. He just knows how to get his 2.0 messages through. Therefore I warmly recommend Lucien. Kind regards, Prof.Dr.. Nicoline Hoogerbrugge, MD, PhD.” April 6, 2010
Nicoline Hoogerbrugge, Professor in Hereditary Cancer, Radboud University Nijmegen, worked with Lucien at Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre

“Lucien is a man with a mission and a vision. He has a clear vision about the direction health care should develop into and works with passion, knowledge and influence in that direction. He’s a frontrunner without losing sight of his followers. He knows that innovation is nothing without implementation.” April 8, 2010
Erwin Blom, Owner, The Crowds, was with another company when working with Lucien at Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre