From Principles to Practice

The 4th european symposium on transition

september 21-22, 2023

in rotterdam, the netherlands

Biographies & Expertise

Keynote Speakers

Prof. dr. AnneLoes van Staa

AnneLoes van Staa trained as a nurse, medical doctor and anthropologist. As Professor of Transitions in care, her research focuses on transitional care for young people with chronic conditions, patients’ lived experiences with chronic illness, patient participation in care, and nurse-led self-management support. She was involved in the development of the Dutch Quality Standard 'Transition in care for young people with chronic conditions' (2022). See more

Prof. dr. Philip Moons

Philip Moons is Professor of Healthcare and Nursing Science at the KU Leuven, Belgium; the University of Gothenburg, Sweden; and the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He is the editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing. He is the co-lead of the STEPSTONES research programme in Sweden.

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Prof. dr. Imelda Coyne

Professor Imelda Coyne is director of the Trinity Research In Childhood Centre. Her research focuses on self-management interventions, communication interventions, decision-making, and transition from paediatric to adult healthcare. She created resources and a website www.SteppingUp.ie to prepare youth for transition and co-edited a book on transition and nursing interventions (Betz and Coyne, 2020).

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Prof. dr. Hankje Escher

Professor Hankje Escher is Head of the Pediatric Gastroenterology Department, Erasmus MC-Sophia Children’s Hospital (Rotterdam, The Netherlands). Her clinical expertise and research focuses on pediatric inflammatory bowel disease. She is currently leading a hospital-wide implementation program on the outcome of structured transition in IBD and other rare diseases.

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Prof. dr. Jan Willem Gorter

Professor Jan Willem Gorter, MD, PhD, is a Pediatric Physiatrist and is Head of Pediatric Rehabilitation in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Jan Willem has a special clinical and research interest in transition to adulthood in youth with disabilities. Jan Willem aims to optimize their participation in society. He is the immediate past chair of the Canadian Transition Hub.

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Dr. Jane Sattoe

Dr. Jane Sattoe is a health scientist. She is involved in research with and about young people with chronic conditions, with a focus on transition to adult care, self-management and lived experiences. She also worked on the development, implementation and evaluation of interventions aiming to empower young people with chronic conditions, and co-edited a book on self-management of young people with chronic conditions (2021). See more

Prof. dr. Ewa-Lena Bratt

Professor Ewa-Lena Bratt is a researcher with focus on transitions in health care. She is a nurse specialized in health care for children and adolescents, and one of the project leaders in the Swedish national research project Stepstones. A project involving the development of a transition program for young people with chronic conditions that is evaluated in a randomized controlled trial.

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Dr. Enora Le Roux

Dr. Enora Le Roux is a public health researcher. She works on the care pathways of children and adolescents with chronic and/or severe disease. She is also involved in the prevention of risky behaviors in adolescence where she develops and evaluates complex interventions, based on mixed methods.

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Vivi Buijs MSc.

Vivi Buijs is a former pediatric nurse and works as a quality advisor at Erasmus MC-Sophia Children’s Hospital (Rotterdam, The Netherlands). During the master integrated care design (2022) she developed a Blueprint for personalized transition. She is currently leading a hospital wide implementation program of this Blueprint for all adolescents and young adults with complex and/or chronic diseases.

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Prof. dr. Thérèse van Amelsvoort

Thérèse van Amelsvoort is a psychiatrist with 30 years experience in mental health care/research with a focus on youth between 12-25 years old, intellectual disability, and psychosis. In 2012, she was appointed Professor of Transitional Care in Psychiatry in Maastricht University. She is co-founder of @ease, the Dutch version of the Australian the mental healthcare non profit foundation headspace.

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