Sabina de-Geest

Sabina De Geest
University of Basel
Basel, Switzerland

Sabina De Geest is a Professor of Nursing and Director of the Institute of Nursing Science of
the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She is also a part time
Professor of Nursing at the Center for Health Services and Nursing Research at the
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) and adjunct Professor at the Schools of Nursing of
the University of Pennsylvania (USA), Johns Hopkins University (USA), the College of
Nursing of New York University (USA) and University of Missouri (USA). She received her
Masters Degree and PhD in Medical Social Sciences at the Catholic University of Leuven.
Sabina De Geest leads the Leuven Basel Adherence Research Group, an international
interdisciplinary research group focusing on behavioural and psychosocial issues, with the
ultimate goal of improving clinical outcomes in chronically ill patient populations (e.g., solid
organ transplant, HIV-AIDS). Projects currently conducted in Belgium, Switzerland, Italy and
the USA focus on the prevalence, determinants and consequences (both clinical and
economic) of non-adherence to medication regimens, and on testing the efficacy of
adherence enhancing interventions. Over time, the research group has expanded her focus
to include assessment of the predictive value of pre-transplant psychosocial and behavioural
factors regarding post-transplant outcomes, and the development and testing of instruments
to assess specific psychosocial and behavioural factors.

Currently the PI of three research projects at the University of Basel (CH) and the
Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven (B), Sabina De Geest also chairs the Psychosocial Interest
Group of the Swiss Transplant Cohort Study, a nation-wide cohort study started in May 2008,
and heads the BRIGHT initiative, an international study exploring the relationship between
broad system factors and medication adherence in transplant recipients.

Her research has been published in leading interdisciplinary journals. She is co-editor of the
Journal of Nursing Scholarship and serves on the editorial board of the International Society
for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) Journal, BioMed Central - Nursing, the European Journal
of Cardiovascular Nursing, Progress in Transplantation, Progress in Cardiovascular Nursing,
and the International Journal of Health Policy. She was inducted as a Fellow of the American
Academy of Nursing in 2006 and as a Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing in 2004.