3 63 ABOUT THE AUTHOR Connie Rees was born on October 10th, 1993 in Tokyo, Japan to a Dutch mother and British father. She and her twin sister Josephine, grew up internationally in Sint Pancras, the Netherlands, Tokyo, Japan and Moscow, Russia. She graduated from the Anglo-American School in Moscow, Russia in 2012, and afterwards received her bachelor’s degree in Premedicine from University College Utrecht (UCU) in Utrecht, the Netherlands. During her bachelor’s degree, she also spent a semester abroad at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. After finishing her bachelor’s degree, she started her medical degree at Utrecht University, completing the Selective Utrecht Medical Masters (SUMMA) programme with an MD and MSc degree. As part of her master’s thesis, she conducted research for the SPOT Study at five hospitals in Accra, Ghana. Upon receiving her medical degree, she starting her PhD research at the Catharina Hospital in Eindhoven in late 2019 under the supervision of Prof. dr Dick Schoot (Eindhoven University of Technology, Ghent University), Prof. dr Huib van Vliet (Ghent University) and Prof. Massimo Mischi (Eindhoven University of Technology). In 2020, she also started her obstetrics and gynaecology training at Ghent University Hospital. As part of her residency she has worked at the Ziekenhuis Oost Limburg, in Genk, Belgium, and the Catharina Hospital in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. She lives together with her boyfriend, Harry, and their two cats, Barry and Neville.
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