Biography

I am a transdisciplinary PhD candidate at the Erasmus School of Health Policy and management. I hold degrees in International Business Administration and Strategy (cum laude) from the Erasmus University Rotterdam. My current research concerns valuing care using management accounting concepts and techniques. I am a specialist in time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) and am currently applying it in combination with process mining to use real world data to understand costs and outcomes across the entire patient pathway in fertility care. This unique method I have developed allows medical managers to evaluate or compare the costs and outcomes of care delivered from initial consultation to outcome. In my research I draw on management accounting, management & organization science, and health services literatures to (a) turn data into useful information, (b) deliver this information through tools like dashboards, (c) explore how medical managers and staff use this information to value or improve care, and (d) explore the impact of technology such as artificial intelligence (AI) on people and the value of care.