Dorien Zwart

Dorien Zwart, M.D., Ph.D, is Full Professor of General Practice/Family Medicine and Head of Department of General Practice&Nursing Sciences in the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care at University Medical Center Utrecht. She also practices as a Family Physician at the Primary Health Care Center De Bilt. Zwart's research primarily focuses on patient safety and quality in general practice targeting the top 3 patient safety challenges in primary care: triage/diagnostic safety, transitional safety and medication safety. Within this scope, she is developing and supervising an applied scientific research portfolio as part of healthcare innovation research in the Julius Center.  She mainly works on multi method complex intervention studies in multidisciplinary research teams.  Beside her research, she is a passionate teacher and educational innovator. She teaches general practice and family medicine as well...