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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Sophie Elisabeth Catharina Maria was born August 28th 1987 in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, as the daughter from Wim and Marjorie van de Vijfeijken. Together with her brother Joost, she grew up in a warm family.
In 2006, she completed her Athenaeum education at the ‘Canisius College’ in Nijmegen. During the last year of high school she was intrigued by Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery after a mini-internship at the Radboud University MC, Nijmegen. She started dentistry at the Academic Centre of Dentistry Amsterdam in 2006. She went to Toronto and Moose Factory in Canada for a clinical internship concerning Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in 2010. During dentistry, she followed a minor in Entrepreneurship at the faculty of Economics and Business at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), which she completed in 2009. After receiving her master’s degree in dentistry, she started studying Medicine at the VU University medical centre (VUmc) school of medical sciences in Amsterdam in 2012, where she obtained her master’s degree in 2016.
During her studies, she worked as a dentist volunteer in Nepal with the Netherlands Oral Health Society and at the ‘Kruispost’ in Amsterdam. Sophie then worked as an oral hygienist in the center of Amsterdam, as an assistant at the department of Oral and Maxillofacial surgery at the Kennemer Gasthuis in Haarlem, and as a general dentist at the ‘Mondzorgpoli’ at the Slotervaart Hospital. Furthermore, she worked in a general dental practice in Maarssen and as a teacher in the department of Oral and Maxillofacial surgery at the VUmc.
In the further context of her extracurricular activities Sophie went in 2009 to Guangzhou as the head of one of the Children’s International Summer Villages. In 2011 she ran the New York marathon for the foundation Human Right Watch, swam the Amsterdam City Swim in 2012 for the foundation Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and worked two years as a volunteer for the same foundation. During the Olympics in 2012 she worked at the Holland Heineken House in London.
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