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APPENDICES/About the author
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Frea Sloot was born on the 3th of January 1986 in Haarlem, the Netherlands. She graduated from secondary school at Mendelcollege, Haarlem in 2004. The same year she started medical school at Utrecht University. During her fourth year she completed an internship in gynaecology at Dr. Horacio E. Oduber Hospital, Aruba. In her sixth year a corneal crosslinking project was her first real research encounter under supervision of dr. N.G. Tahzib and dr. A. van der Lelij. After obtaining her medical degree in 2010 she worked at the Central Military Hospital in Utrecht as a Ophthalmology resident (ANIOS) (supervision: colonel dr. D.F. Schaling).
In December 2012 she started the work described in this thesis at the department of Ophthalmology at the Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam under the supervision of prof. dr. H.J. Simonsz. She has presented her work at several national and international meetings. She actively participated in the granted Horizon 2020 EUSCREEN research application and in the revision of the national child healthcare vision screening guideline.
In October 2016 she started her residency in Ophthalmology at the department of Ophthalmology at the Erasmus Medical Center, headed by prof. dr. J.R. Vingerling.
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