Harry van Goor, MD, PhD, FRCS is a Professor of Surgical Education and Innovator at the Radboud university medical center. He is leading several technology tracks in the ‘less bricks, more bytes, different behaviour’ programme to improve care and wellbeing of patients, and healthcare workers in- and outside the hospital, including intuitive personalised wayfinding, continuous monitoring with wearable devices and predictive analytics, VR therapy and VR education, Ambient Intelligence and personalised healing environments in the hospital and at home. He runs a project of home-facilitated VR (p)rehabilitation (e.g. long-COVID rehab) and VR4Pain management in a virtually connected care solution.
Harry has published over 400 peer-reviewed papers in a broad field of surgical care, medical device development and digital technology supported care innovation. He coaches several start-ups companies in the field of digital technology supported healthcare and design in a ‘Learning by Doing’ and ‘Digital by Design’ way. Harry was awarded Digital Innovator of the Year 2022 in the Netherlands.
He is a Frank Lloyd Wright connoisseur, living with his wife in a FLW designed Usonian house.