223 Curriculum Vitae Curriculum Vitae Thomas Hendrikus Gerardus Bongaerts was born on March 8, 1989 in Maastricht, the Netherlands. After graduation from secondary school (VWO Atheneum, Porta Mosana College) in 2008, he started studying Psychology at the University Maastricht. After obtaining his propaedeutic exam in 2009, he was selected (decentrale selectie) to study Medicine at the University of Groningen. Throughout the bachelor’s phase, he was an active member of various committees and boards, including the KNMG-district Groningen and IFMSA-Groningen. By then he was already interested and involved in conducting research (Junior Scientific Masterclass) and education (Basiskwalificatie Onderwijs voor Studenten). In 2012 he obtained his bachelor-degree with ‘honours’. During the second year of his master’s program, he moved abroad for over more than a year to complete multiple clerkships at the Sint-Elisabeth hospital in Curaçao, and the Diakonessenhuis in Paramaribo, Suriname. In 2015 he returned to the city of Groningen and obtained his medical degree in December of that year. In the beginning of 2016 he started his medical career with a residency at the department of paediatrics in the Martini Hospital Groningen. After working for over a year, he subsequently moved to Delft and became a medical intern at the cardiology department of the Reinier de Graaf Gasthuis. After almost two years of clinical work he started as researcher at the Health Campus The Hague at the end of 2017. In March 2018, this led to a combined trajectory of PhD research with the training to become a general practitioner. Under supervision of prof. dr. Mattijs Numans, dr. Frederike Büchner and dr. Onno Guicherit, he investigated how to optimize the current uptake of the population-based cancer screening programmes in the Netherlands, with a focus on the potential role of primary care. The results of the PhD trajectory are described in this thesis and presented at several (inter)national conferences. During his employment he was involved in teaching medical students and nurses in training, and in parts of the education for the Leiden University College and the Population Health Management master. Furthermore, he worked as an out-of-hours acute physician for different nursing homes in the Leiden/The Hague area via GeriCall, and was he an active member of the education committee of the LOVAH (Landelijke Organisatie Van Aspirant Huisartsen). At the time of writing, he is in the process of completing his training to become a general practitioner at Huisartsenpraktijk Ottengraf in Leidschendam. He resides in The Hague with his fiancée, Laura Bloemer, and their son Olivier. In August, they expect their second child. CV
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