284 Appendices Curriculum vitae Wouter van der Bruggen was born on March 22nd 1977 in Steenwijk, in the same old farm house his grandmother was born 50 years earlier. During his happy youth in the rural town Heino in the provence of Overijssel, he finished high school at Florens Radewijns College in Raalte. After being denied to study Medicine three years in a row through National central lottery as part of numerus fixus, Wouter studied Biomedical Health Sciences in the city of Nijmegen. In the year 2000 he received his MSc in Health Sciences at RadboudUMC in Nijmegen under Prof. dr. L.A.L.M. Kiemeney, with amajor in biostatistics and epidemiology. He then directly continued studying medicine, received his MD at RadboudUMC in Nijmegen in 2004, and started his Nuclear Medicine residency at the same hospital in 2005 under Prof. dr. F.H.M. Corstens and later Prof. dr. W.J.G. Oyen. In 2010, Wouter registered as a specialist, working as a consultant nuclear medicine physician in Slingeland Ziekenhuis in Doetinchem and Streekziekenhuis Koningin Beatrix in Winterswijk, the Netherlands. In 2012, he became member of the newly founded Bone & Joint committee of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM), cooperating with international colleagues to improve bone and joint molecular imaging, organizing sessions on the yearly EANM congress and initiating European guidelines endorsed by the EANM. After more than two terms he retired from this committee in 2019. Inspired by the PhD-defense of his direct colleague Dr. Ben Bulten in 2016 at UTwente, Wouter got the opportunity to get involved in clinical research concerning molecular imaging of benign metabolic bone disease through Prof. De Geus-Oei, Dr. Vriens and Dr. Appelman-Dijkstra at Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). This has occupied his evenings and weekends next to his full-time job for about 5 years, ultimately resulting in this thesis. In 2009 Wouter met his wife Lonneke, starting a beautiful story on another level. They got married in 2013 and settled in a rural part of the Netherlands called ‘the Backcorner’ (in Dutch: de Achterhoek). They are fortunate and grateful to have two sweet and bright children, Arnoud (2014), and Rosalie (2016).
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