Anna Brouwer

188 Appendices About the author Anna Henriette Brouwer was born on February 9 th 1991 in Amsterdam. After graduating from high school in 2009 from the Montessori Lyceum Amsterdam, she moved to Utrecht to study medicine at the University Utrecht. Her master thesis “Potential Predictors of Poor Visual Outcome inHuman Leukocyte Antigen- B27-Associated Uveitis.” resulted in a publication in the American Journal of Ophthalmology. In December 2015 she received her medical degree and started her PhD research in 2016 under the supervision of prof. dr. J.H. de Boer, prof. dr. M.M. van Genderen and dr. G.C de Wit. During her PhD candidacy she was awarded the ‘best oral presentation’ grant at the Dutch Ohthalmology PhD Students (DOPS) conference in 2018, and received an international Association for Research in Vision and Opthamology (ARVO) travel grant to speak at the ARVO conference 2019 in Vancouver. Twice she was an invited speaker at the Dutch ophthalmology patients’ conference ‘Oogconges’. Anna enjoys to travel, cook, and loves to bake. During her study she cofounded a small baking company ‘Nana’s Pastries’, with her friend Narda. Currently she only bakes for family and friends. Anna lives together with her husband Pieter and their cat Floortje in Utrecht, the Netherlands. They own a Toyota Landcruiser “Teddy” with which they planned to tour the Middle-East and Africa after finishing both their theses. Due to the coronavirus pandemic these plans were postponed indefinitely. Anna started her residency in ophthalmology at the University Medical Center Utrecht in September 2020.