Advisory Board Members

After finishing Polytechnic School (Technical Physics), I studied medicine and received my medical degree from the Erasmus Medical School in Rotterdam and specialized in Pediatrics at the Sophia Childrens Hospital in Rotterdam and in Hopital Necker Enfants Maladesin Paris.

I have a long clinical experience as Pediatric Intensivist, and Associate-Professor in Pediatrics. I hold a PhD of the Erasmus University on meningococcal sepsis and a Master in Management from the University of Utrecht (USBO).

Gradually I moved to the field of information and quality, first in the position of chief medical information officer (CMIO) of Erasmus MC, later as professor in Health Care Quality & Outcome, department of Public Health. I was the clinical lead of the Value-Based Health Care Program in Erasmus MC and the shift towards a more Patient-Centered Care. Active in several national (NFU) and international projects and consortia (EUHA). Current research interests: patient reported outcome and experience, patient engagement, implementation and effects of value driven health care, healthcare data management and analysis, as well as sustainability in health care. 

For me ECHORM is an important collaboration alliance where junior researchers can find each other and more senior colleagues in order to develop this fairly new research field: clinical outcome research. Being more closely to daily clinical practice and more (individual) patient focused, this field will use also other (more qualitative) research techniques than RCT’s which is rather new. For this reason exchange of knowledge and experience between colleagues is important. Happy to contribute in many ways.