1. Robby Nieuwlaat is Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics at McMaster University in Hamilton (ON, Canada). He obtained his PhD degree in the Department of Cardiology of University Hospital Maastricht in The Netherlands. His PhD thesis entitled ‘Management of atrial fibrillation in Europe’ was based on the Euro Heart Survey on Atrial Fibrillation, an observational study to assess practice variation, guideline adherence and consequences of guideline nonadherence...