Dr Dirk Frans DE KORNE

Dr De Korne is Deputy Director, Health Innovations at Singapore National Eye Centre, SingHealth (SNEC). He also holds a position as Assistant Professor at the Institute of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands. His research, teaching and implementation work focusses on understanding the diffusion of quality and patient safety innovations and include business process and systems design, human factors & ergonomics, and performance benchmarking.

He is developing, implementing and sustaining of an international benchmarking initiative on quality and efficiency of ophthalmic hospital care. Before his move to Singapore, he worked for eight years as Quality & Safety Consultant and Research Fellow at The Rotterdam Eye Hospital and The Rotterdam Ophthalmic Institute, Netherlands. He holds a MSc in Health Policy & Management from Erasmus University Rotterdam and a PhD in Public Health from University of Amsterdam.