Joost Peerbooms

158 Appendices CURRICULUM VITAE Joost Christiaan Peerbooms was born in Eersel, the Netherlands on May 16, 1975. He grew up in Enschede with his older brother and graduated from high school in 1994 (VWO, Kottenpark College, Enschede). After a year of studying Civil Engineering at the Delft Technical University, he started medical school at the Leiden University Medical Centre. At the end of his medical studies in 1999, he joined a research project at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambarene, Gabon. In 2002, Joost fulfilled a medical elective placement in Orthopaedic Surgery at the Orthopaedic Department of Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, Republic of South Africa, and at the Leyenburg Hospital, The Hague, the Netherlands. Later that year, he received his qualification as a medical doctor and started working as a resident in the Orthopaedic Department of the Leyenburg Hospital in The Hague. At the end of 2002, Joost started his general surgical training at the Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam (Prof. dr. H.J. Bonjer) and the IJsselland Hospital, Capelle aan den IJssel (Dr. I. Dawson) as part of his specialist training in orthopaedic surgery. In 2005, he continued his orthopaedic surgery training at the Leyenburg Hospital (Dr. L.N.J.E.M. Coene) and the Erasmus Medical Centre (Prof. dr. J.A.N. Verhaar). At that time, Joost initiated his first clinical study with platelet-rich plasma (PRP) under the supervision of Dr. D.J. de Bruijn and Prof. dr. J.A.N. Verhaar. In the following years, Dr. T. Gosens and Joost shared the same interest in the applications of PRP and further clinical study projects followed. After finishing his training as an Orthopaedic Surgeon in 2008, Joost fulfilled a one-year fellowship in hip and knee arthroplasty at the Southend University Hospital in Southend-on-Sea, the United Kingdom (Mr. A. White), a one-year fellowship in traumatology and arthroplasty at the Flinders Medical Centre in Adelaide, Australia (Prof. dr. J. Krishnan), and a one-month fellowship in traumatology at the Ganga Hospital in Coimbatore, India (Prof. dr. S. Rajasekaran). Since 2012, Joost has been a staff member of the Orthopaedic Department at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Dordrecht and Zwijndrecht in the Netherlands. He lives in Rotterdam with Maayke Hunfeld and their two children, Boris (2013) and Okke (2015).