About the author 257 A About the author Irene Göttgens was born in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, on November 6, 1986. After obtaining her propaedeutic in Applied Psychology in Tilburg in 2005, she moved to Amsterdam to study Health Sciences at the Free University (VU) Amsterdam. During her studies she participated in multiple extracurricular activities, including the Health Sciences VU Study Association board. She was a board member of Enactus-VU and later a board member of Enactus the Netherlands alumni association. She spent multiple summers as part of the Humans of Health trainer team, which facilitated the educational program for the Healthcare Leadership Summer school. She conducted her master research thesis on ‘leadership skills of surgical residents in the operating room’ at the VU Medical Centre in Amsterdam and received her master’s degree in 2012. From 2013 to 2018 she worked as a consultant and project coordinator for several health innovation initiatives at the Radboud University Medical Centre in Nijmegen. In 2019 she started her career as a scientific researcher and started her PhD project in 2020 under the supervision of prof. dr. Sabine Oertelt-Prigione, prof. dr. Bas Bloem and dr. Sirwan Darweesh, resulting in this thesis.
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