| year | description |
| 1974-1980 | Primary school ("Basisschool"): Bos en Duinschool |
| 1980-1986 | Secondary school ("Gymnasium β"): Christelijk College "Marnix van St. Aldegonde"
Exams in Dutch, English, German, Latin, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology |
| 1986-1992 | Applied Physics at Delft University
Doctoral internship at dept of Experimental Echocardiography, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Thesis "The ultrasonic, nonlinear behaviour of encapsulated gas-filled bubbles" |
| 1992-1996 | Scientific programmer at dept of Medical Informatics, Erasmus University Rotterdam |
| 1996-1998 | Software Engineer at dept of Medical Informatics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam |
| Since 1998 | Assistant Professor at dept of Medical Informatics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam |
| 2000-2006 | PhD student at dept of Medical Informatics, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam
Thesis "Methods for auditing medical terminological systems"
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| Since 2007 | Consultant for the Dutch ICT institute in health care (Nictiz) on “preparing implementation of SNOMED CT in the Netherlands” |
| year | description |
| 1994-1996 | I4C "Integration and Communication for the Continuity of Cardiac Care" (# 1041), supported by Fourth Framework Programme on Health Telematics C/7 of DG XIII, European Community, Brussels. |
| 2000-2004 | Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) program “Information & Communication Technology in Healthcare” (ICZ), project # 014-18-014 “Terminology and Semantics: Making semantics explicit” |
| 2004-2007 | Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) program "ToKen2000", project # 634.000.020 "I-Catcher: Intensive-Care Access to Terminology & Course of Health Exploration and Retrieval" |
| 2006- | NephroQUEST Initiative, supported by the EU Public Health Programme (DG SANCO) |