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About the Author218About the AuthorMark Johannes Maria Zee was born on Sunday August 31st 1986 in Bodegraven, the Netherlands. Aged 7 he moved with his parents and his older sister to Bergen op Zoom where he spent most of his childhood. In 2004 he graduated from high school (Roncalli Scholengemeenschap) and moved to Groningen to start medical school. During his Bachelor of Medicine he became interested in Orthopaedic Surgery and started his Master of Medicine with his research internship at the department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the UMCG, under supervision of prof. dr. Diercks. After completing his rotations in the Deventer Hospital, the Yodogawa Christian Hospital (Osaka, Japan) and the Martini Hospital in Groningen he graduated Medical School in 2010. His first clinical experience as a resident was at the Orthopaedic Center Eastern Netherland (OCON) in Hengelo and the Medical Spectrum Twente in Enschede. In 2013 he started his Orthopaedic training under supervision of prof. dr. Bulstra in the North-Eastern region of the Netherlands. During his residency in the UMCG (2014-2016) he started with the first steps in research which would eventually lead to a PhD trajectory under supervision of prof. dr. Diercks. After completing his residency program in the Martini Hospital he graduated as an orthopaedic surgeon in 2019, and started a fellowship in knee arthroplasty under supervision of dr. van Loon in the Rijnstate Hospital in Arnhem. In 2020 he worked as a chef de Clinique in the Rijnstate Hospital and in 2021 he transferred to the Noord West Ziekenhuis groep (Alkmaar and Den Helder) to work as a chef de Clinique. In 2022 he started working at the Bergman Clinics in Naarden as a consultant knee surgeon where he still works to this date. Mark is happily married to Eefje and a proud father of Thijmen (2017) and Floortje (2019). Mark Zee.indd 218 03-01-2024 08:56