PhD researcher - physician
Apeldoorn Area, Netherlands
PhD researcher - physician
Apeldoorn Area, Netherlands
I'm trained as an occupational physician (OP) and worked in the field for 14 years. Then I shifted to freelance journalism and had my own business for 10 years. After that I stepped into the (academic) world of knowledge generation and transfer in the field of work and health. Occupational diseases became are my major topic: how to recognize them, how to monitor them and how to prevent them in the first place. Being an OP as well as a journalist gave me the qualifications to be responsible for knowledge dissemination to professionals as well as employers, employees and policymakers. The close collaboration with the scientific community made me aware of the challenges and fun of doing research. Now I grab the opportunity to develop myself in that way. I started PhD research on OSH vigilance, recognition and reliable diagnosis of work-related skin and lung diseases in workers and physicians.
occupational health, occupational diseases, knowledge dissemination, editing, writing, evidence based medicine, developing websites
(Hospital & Health Care industry)
April 2009 — Present (8 months)
(Hospital & Health Care industry)
September 2005 — March 2009 (3 years 7 months)
Coordinate knowledge dissemination activities in the field of occupational diseases and occupational health by means of websites, print, presentations, newsletters, reports etc. Main website projects were www.beroepsziekten.nl, www.kiza.nl, www.arboantwoord.com, occupational disease descriptions on www.arboportaal.nl
(Hospital & Health Care industry)
2003 — 2005 (2 years )
Realization and maintenance of the (new) website for the Netherlands Center for Occupational Diseases www.beroepsziekten.nl or www.occupationaldiseases.nl
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Writing and Editing industry)
April 1996 — August 2005 (9 years 5 months)
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)
June 1983 — March 1996 (12 years 10 months)
sociale geneeskunde bedrijfsgeneeskunde 1984 — 1986
1975 — 1983