Curriculum Vitae 599 & Curriculum Vitae Elizabeth Janna (Lisanne) de Koster was born on the 25th of July 1988 and grew up in Hoedekenskerke, Zeeland, the Netherlands. After graduating cum laude from the Gymnasium at the Buys Ballot College, Goes, in 2006, she studied taal- en cultuurstudies at the University of Utrecht for one year before starting her medical education at the University of Utrecht in 2007. During her bachelor studies, she became actively involved in the medical student association MSFU “Sams” and during her master studies, she fulfilled a fulltime board position in 2011-2012 as treasurer. Subsequently, during the medicine master’s program, she started an extracurricular research project on the factors influencing the nondiagnostic rate of thyroid fine needle aspiration cytology at the departments of surgical oncology and radiology at the University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht. She also visited the Tygerberg hospital at the University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa, for a clinical internship in general surgery. In 2015, Lisanne obtained her medical degree and started her PhD research at the Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen. Under the supervision of prof. dr. Lioe-Fee de Geus-Oei, prof. dr. Wim Oyen, and dr. Dennis Vriens, she coordinated the EfFECTS trial, the Dutch multicenter randomized controlled trial on the efficacy of [18F]FDG-PET/CT in the diagnosis of cytologically indeterminate thyroid nodules that is the basis of this thesis. During her PhD research, she held a parttime position as board member for the LUMC Association for PhD Candidates as treasurer. To bridge the gap to enroll the desired number of trial participants in the EfFECTS trial, she concurrently worked as a surgical resident (not-in-training) at the St. Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, from April 2017 to June 2018. Since July 2018, she is working as a surgical resident in training at the Haaglanden Medical Center, the Hague. She aspires to become a trauma surgeon with an additional qualification for pediatric surgery. Lisanne currently lives in Leiden with her partner Mathijs and their children Boaz and Lauren.
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