Biography

January 2005- current: Medical Staff, Senior Lecturer: Department of Urology, University Medical Centre, Utrecht The Netherlands.

MD Functional urology and neuro -gyneco-urology and urodynamics.

Clinical diagnosis and management

Scientific projects

MD-Education; Medical specialists-education and training; Nurses –education and training

Member: Research Ethics Committee UMCU (2006- ) and Vice Chairman (2010-2015)

Teacher: Erasmus International Teaching Exchange program (2009-  )

                Medical Students University Utrecht Tutor

Project leader: (Yearly) Utrecht Urology Care Quality week (& Start-up for new residents).

Teacher:  Continence Care Advisors Training: SSSV (Stichting Specifieke Scholing voor Verpleegkundigen, Bunnik) (2005- 2010) now: Antonius Academy Nieuwegein (2011- )

Teacher: RegionalUrologyNursesTrainingUniversityUtrecht (2005-  )

Project leader: Outpatient department logistics and organisation (project ‘Uroflow’. 2006-7)

Clinical health care (logistics) Improvement program

Radiation Safety and Protoction Certificate- Level 4  (MD) November 2005

Trial Monitor: GCP-monitorCertificateJuliusCenter Clinical Research, Utrecht, November 2011

January 2000 - December 2004: Senior Advisor: Netherlands Institute for Health Care Quality Improvement (CBO). Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Projectleader: Multidisciplinary Clinical Practice Guidelines Development.

Project leader: Health Care Quality Improvement program

Member: Working group on Health Care Safety

Experienced with Intramural; Trans-mural; Somatic and Mental Healthcare Quality improvement  Projects

January 1998 - January 2000: Resident in training Urology: CanisusWilhelminaHospital               Nijmegen; CatharinaHospital, Eindhoven; DeventerHospital, Deventer, The Netherlands.

                MD Clinical Practice

March 1996 - December 1997: MD Post doctoral in functional (neuro-) urology: Department of             Urology, UniversityHospitalNijmegen, The Netherlands, Functional and neuro-urology

Clinical and scientific practice.

2 weeks Working visit: NationalHospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London (1997)

June 1992- February 1996: PhD Thesis, Department of Urology, UniversityHospitalNijmegen, the Netherlands.

Thesis: Bladder function in elderly male patients

MD: Clinical trials in functional neuro-urology (neurostimulation; neuromodulation; LUTD- medication; erectile dysfunction).

March 1989 - May 1992 MD grade; Resident Department of Urology, UniversityHospital  Maastricht, the Netherlands.

Clinical trials in BPH and Urinary incontinence

August 1982 - March 1989: MD training University of Maastricht, the Netherlands.

Included auxiliary courses: Computers in Medicine; Philosophy of (medical) science;

Primary care practice health care epidemiology and research

McMaster course: Development of a research protocol

August1975 - December 1981: Operating Nurse St.IgnatiusHospital, Breda, the Netherlands.

B.I.G. (Dutch MD) registration: 79023571001