Paul is program manager value-based healthcare at St. Antonius Hospital, research development manager at Santeon and professor value-based healthcare at IQ healthcare (Radboud University Medical Centre). Paul is working on VBHC implementation and research in local, national, and international initiatives since 2013. He is one of the initiators of Meetbaar Beter and worked there as manager in 2013-2017 (merged within the Netherlands Heart Registry).

His current research focuses on condition-based organization of hospitals, change management requires in the implementation of value-based healthcare and patient participation within multidisciplinary value improvement teams. Paul was installed as professor in 2022 and gave his inaugural lecture ‘from amazement to improvement’ in September 2023. Paul was strategy consultant at The Decision Group in 2008-2011 and he holds a PhD in High-Energy Physics for his work at the National Institute for Subatomic Physics (NIKHEF, Amsterdam).