1. Academic education and degrees
1993 PhD thesis: The effects and costs of breast cancer screening. Supervised by: Prof. P.J. van der Maas and Prof. J.A. van Dongen.
1993 Epidemiologist B registration with the Netherlands Epidemiology Society
1990 Summer Programme at New England Epidemiology Institute (Medford USA)
1979 – 1986 Medicine (MD 11 July 1986), Leiden University (the Netherlands)
2. Appointments
2011 - 2017 Member of the Medical Sciences Advisory Board of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)
2011 – 2012 Senior Associate Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
2008 – present Professor of Public Health & Screening Evaluation, Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC. Inaugural address: De mysterieuze massa; The mysterious mass(es). 26th June 2009
1999 – 2008 Associate professor, Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Rotterdam
1995 – 1999 Assistant professor, Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Rotterdam
1987 – 1995 Researcher, Department of Public Health, Erasmus University Rotterdam