141 About the author ABOUT THE AUTHOR Yara Lynn Blok was born on the 1st of January, 1993, and grew up in Muiderberg, the Netherlands. She attended secondary school at Willem de Zwijger college in Bussum and already knew at young age she wanted to become a plastic surgeon. After completing the Gymnasium in 2010, she went for voluntary work to Nepal to teach English at a primary school in Pokhara. In 2011, she started studying medicine at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and moved to the city. After graduating medical school in 2018, she obtained clinical experience as a resident not in training at the department of cardiothoracic surgery in Amsterdam (VUMC) and at the department of surgery in Beverwijk (RKZ). After this, she worked at the department of plastic surgery in Leiden (Alrijne hospital and Leiden University Medical Center) and in Rotterdam (Erasmus Medical Center), where she was admitted for the plastic surgery residency. In September 2023, Yara started her plastic surgery residency in Hoorn (DLZ). Besides her clinical work, she started with medical research in 2018 in the field of breast reconstructive surgery, which eventually progressed into a PhD traject at Leiden University Medical Center. Next to her career, she likes bike racing, running, snowboarding, traveling and all kinds of creative projects. She lives in the north of Amsterdam with her husband Victor and loves to spend time with her family, friends and cats.
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