Sabina De Geest is a Professor of Nursing at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel (Switzerland), and a part-time Professor of Nursing at KU Leuven (Belgium). She also holds adjunct faculty positions at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Pittsburgh, and New York University (USA).
Professor De Geest leads the PIONEER international research group, an interdisciplinary team focused on behavioral (e.g., medication adherence) and psychosocial issues in chronic illness, including transplantation, rheumatology, and geriatric populations. Her research is driven by implementation science methodologies and centers on developing innovative care models, many of which leverage eHealth technologies.
In addition, her work explores psychosocial and behavioral pathways and their impact on outcomes in chronic illness, as well as the development and validation of instruments to assess patient-reported outcomes. She is leading the Psychosocial Interest Group of the Swiss Transplant Cohort Study (www.stcs.ch). She is also a co-founder of the Swiss Implementation Science Network (https://impact-dph.unibas.ch/).
She acts as Recruitment of DC15, hosting secondments.