220 Curriculum vitae Curriculum vitae Martijn Sijbom was born in 1977 and raised in Emmen. He attended the Gemeentelijk Scholen Gemeenschap in Emmen, where he passed his VWO exams in 1995. Initially, he was unable to study medicine and instead studied bio-pharmaceutical sciences at Leiden University. In 1996, he was accepted into the study of medicine at Leiden University. During his studies, he conducted research at the department of paediatric cardiology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, USA. This experience sparked his interest in research. He completed an internship in paediatrics at Kanti Children's Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal, where he witnessed the possibility of achieving a lot with limited resources. This experience inspired him and fellow Dutch students to establish the Medicine for ALL foundation, which raises funds for the treatment of childhood leukaemia in Nepal. After graduating as a physician in 2004, he began working in the paediatrics department of the Albert Schweitzer hospital in Dordrecht, and later at the Wilhelmina children's hospital. In 2006, he began the GP training, which he successfully completed in 2009. Since then, he has worked in various primary care practices in the Hague area. From 2011 to 2018, he worked as a scientific collaborator at the Dutch General Practitioner Society (NHG), where he was involved in making and updating (NHG) guidelines. In 2018, he joined the LUMC campus The Hague as a GP researcher and began work on this dissertation. The author combined thesis writing with work for the antimicrobial resistance network Holland West. During the winter of 2020, the author and their family resided in Cape Town, South Africa for three months. The author worked with Professor Marc Mendelsson at the Infectious Diseases Department of Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town. He currently holds a permanent position as a researcher in infectious disease and antibiotic use in primary care and a lecturer in the Master Population Health Management at the Hague Campus of the Department of Public Health and Primary Care of LUMC. He is a member of the SWAB working group on Antibiotic Surveillance and the working group Antibiotic Stewardship in Primary Care. He lives in The Hague with his spouse, Ymre, and their two children, Niven and Wende. In his leisure time, he enjoys windsurfing when the wind is blowing from the southwest at speeds of 6 Beaufort or even more and mountain biking in the Ardennes with his friends.
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