About the author | Curriculum Vitae 213 CHAPTER 13 ABOUT THE AUTHOR │ CURRICULUM VITAE John de Heide was born in Vlaardingen, the Netherlands, on November 12, 1972. He completed his pre-university education (VWO) in 1992. After an incomplete propaedeutic year in the Medicine Programme during 1992-1994, he was drafted into military service in 1995, serving as a Corporal ambulance driver. He chose to serve abroad in former Yugoslavia with the UNPROFOR peacekeeping force, earning two service medals. In late 1996, John began his nursing education at hospital ‘Holy Ziekenhuis’ in Vlaardingen. He graduated in 2000 at the cardiology ward, and pursued further education to become an ICU nurse, graduating in 2002. He continued to work as an intensive and coronary care nurse at 'Holy Ziekenhuis’, which later became ‘Vlietland Ziekenhuis’, until early 2009. In 2009, John took on a new role as an intensive and coronary care nurse at High Care Detachering, working at the hospital ‘Diakonessen ziekenhuis Leiden’, and in interventional cardiology at the Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam. In September 2011, he began the Master of Advanced Nursing Practice (MANP) at the University of Applied Sciences Rotterdam, from which he graduated in mid-2013. After graduation he further developed the role of nurse practitioner at the interventional cardiology and electrophysiology ward. His master’s thesis on smartphone photography by patients was implemented in 2014, earning him the Meyboom Nursing Research Prize at Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam. He presented his work on this subject in the Netherlands, Germany, the United States, and Finland, winning the poster presentation award at the 2014 International Congress of Nurse Practitioners. This marked the beginning of his scientific career, alongside his full-time role as a nurse practitioner in interventional cardiology and electrophysiology at Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam. His official promotion began in late 2015. During this period, he had opportunities to present his work at national and international conferences and publish his study results in various international peer-reviewed medical and nursing journals. As a nurse practitioner in cardiology, he also served as a nursing tutor for eight nurse practitioner students. In early 2022, he began a teaching position at the University of Applied Sciences Rotterdam / Hogeschool Rotterdam (HR) in the Bachelor of Nursing program, focusing on science, nursing, and anatomy/physiology/pathology. Late 2023 he expanded his role to teacher researcher at the Research Center of Innovations in Care at HR. 13
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