Monique Roobol

Department of Urology at Erasmus Medical Centre Rotterdam, The Netherlands since 1991. She is the PI of the European Randomized study of Screening for Prostate Cancer (ERSPC: www.erspc.org), she co-developed the “Rotterdam Prostate Cancer Risk calculator: www.prostatecancer-riskcalculator.com), and is co-PI of global studies on active surveillance: PRIAS (www.prias-project.org) and GAP3 (https://gap3.movemberprojects.com). Since 2018 she is part of the PIONEER European network for big data in prostate cancer (https://prostate-pioneer.eu),co-academic lead of another big data project for prostate ,breast and lung cancer OPTIMA (https://www.optima-oncology.eu) and co-lead in the EAU led project on awareness and initiatives in prostate cancer screening in the EU (PRAISE-U; https://uroweb.org/praise-u). She is board member of the ERSPC Foundation, and the  chairwoman of the Dutch Prostate Cancer Research Foundation (SWOP), (co)-authored over 450 scientific publications, book chapters and reviews. Her motto is: translate research into useful tools for use within clinical practice:  ”Bridging the gap between epidemiology and urology”