Academic collaborative centers
Academic Network Medical practice for Frail Elderly (GeriMedica)
The academic network of general practitioners of the VU university medical centre (ANH-Vumc) was funded in 2003. The ANH-Vumc is the academic workplace of the department of general practice in which GP’s, teachers and researchers work together to improve the quality of primary care. more »
Bipolar Disorders
This academic workplace is the first one in the Netherlands. The aim is to contribute to restoration and maintenance of health and well being of patients with bipolar disorders (manic depressive illness) and others involved, through research, health care innovation, education and health advocacy. more »
Depression and Anxiety
The EMGO institute is very well positioned in mental health. Within the mental health program we have a long tradition of community-based epidemiological studies and innovative work regarding mental health promotion and prevention. more »
Domiciliary Care - Overweight
The Academic Workplace for Domiciliary Care - Overweight (ATW Overweight) is a collaborative initiative by the Research Centre for the Prevention of Overweight (OPOZ) and Icare Foundation. more »
Network of general practitioners of the VUmc
The academic network of general practitioners of the VU university medical centre (ANH-Vumc) was funded in 2003. The ANH-Vumc is the academic workplace of the department of general practice in which GP’s, teachers and researchers work together to improve the quality of primary care. more »
Severe Mental-ilness 1
Within the research-program long-term mental illness a representative sample of long-term psychiatric patients in care in Amsterdam is evaluated on psychiatric symptoms, medication, need-for-care, quality-of-life, social functioning and integration in society. more »
Severe Mental-ilness 2
According the multidisciplinary guidelines for the treatment of schizophrenia, patients with schizophrenia and other severe mental illnesses have to be assessed once a year on functioning and somatic complaints. more »
Severe Mental-ilness 3
To delineate variables that differentiate between successfully recovered patients with long-term severe mental illness and not recovered patients. This from the point of view of patient and practitioner. more »
Old Age Psychiatry
The primary focus of research in this department is the heterogeneity of affective disorders in old age, studied from three perspectives: first, population based epidemiological studies, second, collaborative care studies carried out mostly in primary care and third, studies in clinical populations. more »
Occupational Medicine
VU University Medical Centre has started in 2004 with the policy to create academic workplaces in occupational health care and prevention. more »
University Network of Organisations for elderly care (UNO)
UNO-VUMC wants to build a bridge between research and practice in long term elderly care (especially nursing home care).
more »