203 About the author / Over de auteur 7 ABOUT THE AUTHOR Marleen Ottenhoff-de Jonge was born on March 27, 1960, in Nuenen, as the eldest daughter of Max and Anneke de Jonge. From her mother, who was trained as a nurse, she inherited an interest in healthcare. Her father, who ran his own architectural firm and taught one day a week at a University of Applied Sciences, served as a role model for her in combining one’s original profession with a teaching job. Marleen graduated with honours from Eindhoven Protestant Lyceum in 1978 and subsequently studied medicine in Leiden. After completing her studies in 1985, she studied Amharic for six months in preparation for working in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where she and her husband Tom lived for 2.5 years while she worked as a surgical resident at the ALERT leprosy hospital. Upon returning to the Netherlands, Marleen completed a two-year residency programme in general practice in 1990. While living in Bethesda, MD, USA, from 1991 to 1993, she gained her first experience teaching medical students at Georgetown University. From early 1994, she worked in the general practice of Haitse Wiersma, where she works as the ‘Friday doctor’ to this day. Five years later, she began her career as a medical teacher at Leiden University Medical Centre. She served as coordinator of clinical rotations, year coordinator for the first and fourth years of study, a member of the Education Committee, and a member of the Curriculum Revision Committee. She was twice nominated as ‘Teacher of the year.’ Since 2009, she has been the Head of Student Education in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care. In 2008, while staying in Palo Alto, CA, USA with her family, Marleen began her research into the beliefs of medical educators at Stanford University School of Medicine. This research formally continued in a PhD programme starting in October 2016, resulting in this thesis. Marleen and Tom are the parents of Matthije, Janna, and Max; foster parents of Redi and David; parents-in-law of Wouter, Michiel, and Célestine; and grandparents of Evi.
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