Trudy DEM van der Weijden

Trudy DEM van der Weijden

Department of Family Medicine, CAPHRI School for Public Health and Primary Care, Maastricht University, The Netherlands

Biography
Trudy van der Weijden was trained as a medical doctor and certified as epidemiologist. In 2010, she was appointed as full professor in Implementation of Guidelines and Shared Decision Making at the department of Family Medicine, school CAPHRI. Her research is about patient perspectives and patient participation in collective and individual medical decision making where the tension is felt between rationalising work (the application of guidelines) and patient-centred work (the preferences of the patient in the context of the consultation).