Josephine van Dongen

A Curriculum vitae 229 Curriculum vitae Josephine, call name Fien, van Dongen was born in Amsterdam on September 5th 1989. She grew up in Amsterdam, Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Cochabamba (Bolivia), Katwijk and Voorburg. She attended secondary education at Gymnasium Haganum in the Hague and graduated in 2007. After a gap year with voluntary work in La Paz (Bolivia) and travelling South America, she studied Medicine at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. As par t of the Medicine master she did a research internship at a pediatric hospital in Manado (Indonesia) and travelled South-East Asia. After obtaining her medical degree in 2015, she star ted working as non-training resident at the pediatrics depar tment of Reinier de Graaf Gasthuis and later Onze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis. She became a PhD candidate in 2016 at the Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases group of prof. dr. Marc Bonten, Julius Center of UMC Utrecht, co-supervised by dr. Patricia Bruijning- Verhagen. Besides her PhD, she completed the postgraduate master in Epidemiology, with a specialization in Infectious Disease epidemiology at Utrecht University. She was also member of theVvE visitation committee that reviews epidemiology curricula of Dutch universities, assisted in teaching epidemiology to medical students and supervised bachelor and master research internships. As of April 2021, she is applying for a doctor in training residency in Pediatrics.