Dr. Knops, a cardiologist at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, specializes in cardiac rhythm management, with a primary focus on leadless pacing, subcutaneous ICDs, and lead extractions.
Dr. Knops is the principal investigator of the PRAETORIAN trial, a large, international, multi-center, investigator-initiated, randomized controlled trial comparing the efficacy of transvenous versus subcutaneous ICD therapy. Dr. Knops has participated in the Nanostim and Micra first-in-man studies and has implanted over 150 leadless pacemakers and 400 S-ICDs.
Dr. Knops is a medical advisor for Abbott, Boston Scientific, Medtronic and several start-up companies and frequently takes part as a steering committee member or principal investigator of clinical trials in the field of cardiac rhythm management.