Assistant Professor
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Biography
Sigrid Vervoort is currently appointed as assistant professor at the Julius Center, UMC Utrecht and is the program coordinator of the Master Program of Nursing Science at Clinical Health Sciences at the University of Utrecht.
She was trained as a nurse, obtained her master’s degree in health sciences (Nursing Science) at Maastricht University in 1995 and her Master of Advanced Nursing Practice at the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht (2013).
She worked as a clinical nurse specialist/nurse practitioner and (post-doc) researcher in HIV care (1998-2016) and as a manager and post-doc researcher at the division of oncology, UMC Utrecht (2016-2022). She continued her scientific career as assistant professor at the Nursing Science department at the Julius Center since May 2022.
Her research program is focusing improving cancer care, optimizing care pathways for cancer patients including in the transition from hospital to home and vice versa and on developing nursing care and interventions that are both effective and efficient while meeting the patient’s needs.
