Martine Kruijtbosch

229 Abou t t he au t ho r ABOUT THE AUTHOR Martine Kruijtbosch was born on 31 July 1966 in Papendrecht, the Netherlands. She lives in the Hague. Since childhood she was interested in ethics and started studying Theosophia or divine wisdom. She performs Theosophia study groups from home. She studied Sociology in the city of Groningen and got hermaster degree in the year 1992. Shortly after, she became tour leader in India and Nepal and guided Dutch tourists from Mumbai to Kathmandu. Between 1993 and 2001 she did voluntary service and research in various Indian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working against child labour. From 1998 to 2001 she lived in a village in Andhra Pradesh. The years in India changed her live and learned her more about ethics and values and what these can mean to people. After the period in India, she returned to the Netherlands and was introduced to the SIR Institute of Pharmacy Practice and Policy. Although the subject of pharmaceutical patient care was new to her she joined SIR since 2002. After some years of getting acquainted with research on various topics related to pharmaceutical care she discovered that the ethical part of the practice had not been studied in the Netherlands. After a minor in applied ethics with the Ethics Institute in Utrecht, the idea for a PhD project on the professionalism of the community pharmacist was born. This PhD project started in 2014 with the main objective to generate understanding of the moral reflectivity of community pharmacists in situations of moral dilemmas and how professional core values play a role therein. During her PhD research she completed a one year training as a facilitator for moral case deliberation (MCD) at the VU University Amsterdam and a training as a facilitator for Socratic dialogue. The MCD training formed the input for the last research project of this thesis. Since 2011 she is a member of the Special Interest Group “Ethics and Philosophy of Pharmacy” of the Royal Dutch Pharmacists Association (KNMP). Since 2020 she facilitates MCD with community pharmacists. She teaches professionalism and ethics in the Master Pharmacy programs at Leiden University, Utrecht University and in the Dutch postgraduate community pharmacist specialisation program of the KNMP. After completing this PhD, she will continue teaching and facilitating moral case deliberation with pharmacists. She aims to further research ethical competencies and moral development of pharmacy students and (community) pharmacists and the effects of moral case deliberation on moral reflectivity of pharmacists.