Jeroen van de Pol

206 Appendices About the author Jeroen van de Pol was born on the 17th of October 1988 in Veenendaal, the Netherlands. He attended secondary school at the Christelijk Lyceum Veenendaal from 2001 to 2006. He attended Life Sciences and Chemistry at the Hogeschool Utrecht; University of applied sciences for one year and then switched to Pharmacy at Utrecht University and attended between 2007 and 2013. In 2013, he obtained his Master of Science in Pharmacy. In his last year at the Utrecht University, he also began working on his PhD research and he officially started as a PhD candidate at Utrecht University in 2015. After obtaining his Pharmacy degree, he started working as a community pharmacist for Mediq Apotheken. He worked in several community pharmacies owned by Mediq Apotheken during a year. After that, he started the post-academic advanced community pharmacist education program in BENU Apotheek Kerk en Zanen in Alphen a/d Rijn in the Netherlands. He worked in the community pharmacy setting till 2017, when he was presented with an opportunity to work at the headquarters of BENU Apotheken in Maarssen, the Netherlands. There, he took on the role of performance & compliance manager. During this period, he focused predominantly on negotiations with healthcare insurance companies and monitoring business performance and compliance within BENU pharmacies on agreements made with healthcare insurance companies. After a couple of years he decided that he wanted to focus more on promoting the interests of the pharmaceutical sector and community pharmacists in general. In 2020, he was presented with the opportunity to work for the Royal Dutch Pharmacists Association (KNMP), where he is currently working. After completion of this PhD thesis, he aims to continue promoting the interests of the pharmaceutical sector and the position of community pharmacists in the Netherlands. In the upcoming years, he aims to combine the knowledge obtained from this PhD thesis with his work at the KNMP and his personal goal of achieving the recognition that community pharmacists deserve as full- fledged healthcare providers. Jeroen currently lives in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Together with Ilse Mouws and their two cats, Fien and Bowie.