Annelotte van Bommel

184 CURRICULUM VITAE Annelotte van Bommel was born on November 17, 1986 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In 2005 she graduated from Erasmiaans Gymnasium, Rotterdam. She went tomedical school at Utrecht University. Her passion for traveling through Africa was realized in 2009, when she was able to go to Malawi with a good friend for a rotation in gynecology at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Blantyre and the Holy Family Mission Hospital in Phalombe. With a special interest in plastic surgery, she wrote her first case report under the supervision of dr. P.P.A. Schellekens, University Medical Center, Utrecht. She continued with various research projects at BirminghamChildren’s Hospital, United Kingdom, under the supervision of dr. A. Jester (plastic and hand surgeon). Annelotte graduated frommedical school in 2012. After a short period as resident not in training at the department of surgery of the Diakonessenhuis Utrecht (dr. T. van Dalen), she embarked on a new phase; her PhD research that led to this thesis at the Leiden UniversityMedical Center. Under the supervision of prof. dr. R.A.E.M. Tollenaar (surgeon at Leiden University Medical Center), dr. T. van Dalen and prof. dr. M.A.M. Mureau (plastic surgeon at Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam), she combined scientific research using the data of the NABON Breast Cancer Audit (NBCA) with coordination of the NBCA and several other national audits initiated by the Dutch Institute for Clinical Auditing (DICA). One step further in measuring quality of care was defining the outcomes that matter most to patients, a step so logical, but until that moment not yet taken. In 2014, Annelotte had the opportunity towork as a project leader at the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM) in Boston, United States of America. She developed the Advanced Prostate Cancer and Lung Cancer standard sets and she counseled the Breast Cancer and Colorectal Cancer standard sets. The drive to inform other young clinicians about Value Based Healthcare led to the organization of a two-day masterclass.