Assistant Professor
Biography
Through my experience as a Medical Psychologist, I realised how suboptimal communication and a lack of perceived control could contribute to patient distress, uncertainty, inadequate coping, and a lower quality of life. Since the start of my academic career as a PhD-student (2017, AMC-University of Amsterdam, cum laude), I have therefore focused on enhancing the quality of healthcare, mainly hospital-based care.
Initially by understanding and improving clinician-patient communication, yet my work expanded to developing strategies that could encourage patient engagement in healthcare in a broader sense. For example, by investigating stakeholder opinions, patient outcomes and experiences, ethical considerations, and facilitators and barriers for the implementation of innovations from different perspectives. I hereby often take on a participatory research approach and connect with partners from academia, healthcare, industry, society, and persons with lived experience.
