Mitchell Silva MSc, PhD

Mitchell is a patient advocate with a long-term condition. Based on his experience as a patient in combination with his experience as a researcher, he started to develop tools to follow his condition over time. Mitchell is also co-founder of Esperity, a platform to encourage patients to find peer support, find clinical trials and to promote self-tracking. He participates in and organizing patient partnership programs aiming at including patient input during the design phase of new services for patients. Mitchell is also the chair of the Belgian EUPATI national platform and a board member of ReumaNet. He has a Ph.D. in bioengineering from the KULeuven.