About the author 191 A About the author Saskia Briedé was born on June 29th 1990 in Utrecht, the Netherlands. She grew up in Maarssen with her sister, Sandra. After graduating from the Gerrit Rietveld College (Gymnasium) in 2008, she started medical school at Utrecht University. At the end of 2014, she obtained her medical degree. In 2015, Saskia started working as a physician in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Diakonessenhuis in Utrecht, followed by her training as a resident in Internal Medicine in the same hospital, supervised by dr. A.F. Muller. In 2018, she continued her residency at the University Medical Center Utrecht, supervised by prof. dr. H.A.H. Kaasjager. A strong preference for teaching was already evident during secondary school, when she was tutoring as a part-time job. This love for education continued, which can be seen in tutoring throughout medical school and elective educational internships during the master’s phase and internal medicine residency. It was the training and educational aspect of this research project that won Saskia over to start with the study at the outpatient clinic in 2019. Besides, the topic of care decisions (‘behandelwensen en -grenzen’) was close to her heart as she saw the need for improvement of these conversations in everyday practice. Still, she was quite reluctant to look at it as a PhD trajectory. Saskia saw herself more as a clinician and educator than a researcher. She started under supervision of prof. dr. H.A.H. Kaasjager and dr. T.C. van Charldorp, but it was only after the first study raised several new questions, and plans were developed to further investigate those areas, she started to see herself as a researcher as well. During her PhD, she presented her work at several international and national conferences, including the Anéla Working Group Interaction Analysis Conference and the Netherlands International Sepsis Symposium. Saskia further developed the patient educational materials and physicians’ training and supervised the physicians’ training. After two years, one baby and pregnant from the second, she continued with her training as a resident in Internal Medicine at the Amsterdam UMC, supervised by prof. dr. S.E. Geerlings. She started with the differentiation Acute Internal Medicine, supervised by dr. F.F. van Doormaal and dr. F. Holleman. She will complete the differentiation Acute Internal Medicine at the end of 2025. Saskia lives in Maarssen with her husband Marcel and their children Luuk and Koen.
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