Vera Wolters

The Netherlands Cancer Institute Amsterdam, NL PhD student Cancer In Pregnancy HIGHLIGHTS After obtaining her master’s degree in medicine at the University of Leiden in 2015 and two years of clinical work, she successfully applied for her current position as PhD student on placental pathology in Cancer in Pregnancy. CLINICAL ACTIVITY After her graduation from medical school at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands, in 2015, she worked at the obstetrics and gynaecology department of the Bronovo Hospital in The Hague, for two years. RESEARCH ACTIVITY During her clinical work in The Hague, she worked on different research projects and implemented and coordinated a prospective cohort study on the so-called ‘gentle caesarean section’ in which early skin-to-skin contact between mother and child is the main goal. Since June 2017, she started her PhD project within the Cancer In Pregnancy study group in the Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam. During this project she focuses on placental pathology and fetal growth restriction in cancer-related pregnancies, next to the coordination of the CIP study in the Netherlands together with her research team members. TEACHING ACTIVITY She has been a speaker at several national and one international congress, presenting the results of the Cancer in Pregnancy study, and has been conducting a course about Cancer in Pregnancy for a group of oncological nurses at the Amsterdam University Medical Center annualy.