Meet the mentors of the DCVA Leadership Program 2020-2021. These five people will coach, mentor and guide the fifteen participants during the DCVA Leadership Program. They all have roots in the cardiovascular field, and gained much experience, expertise and knowledge outside the academic field e.g. regarding collaboration, management-related issues and communication.
Eric Boersma
"To become an influential research leader, one also needs to inspire and stimulate other people, and develop competences with respect to collaboration, communication and entrepreneurship."
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"Today’s healthcare problems can only be solved when different disciplines, each with their own unique qualifications and specific ‘language’, interact."
Read moreLeonard Hofstra
"By leading through example and being disciplined, participants will be able to combine care and business, in which I will be very much supporting them."
Read moreGerard Pasterkamp
"You have the possibility to convert your creative ideas into reality and not only read the news, but write the news."
Read moreJolanda van der Velden
"Knowledge about networking outside research activities is crucial to understand the (inter)national arena in which decisions about research and education are made."
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