dr. ir. Jenny van der Steen

Over Jenny van der Steen

Jenny van der Steen, MSc, PhD, FGSA, is an epidemiologist and Associate Professor at Leiden University Medical Center and senior researcher at Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She studies how to improve care at the end of life, in particular for persons with dementia and their family. The research covers palliative care including advance care planning and non-pharmacological interventions. She has been awarded national and European prizes, and has chaired EAPC task forces on palliative dementia care, and on advance care planning in dementia. She aims at optimizing research design, employing rigorous quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods, preferably in international comparative and with parallel methodological work.

Onder­scheidingen

• ERC Consolidator grant
• NWO Vidi and Veni
• Annual Public Health award “Volksgezondheidsprijs 2001” for dissertation
• EAPC Young Investigator Award 2009
• Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America (FGSA)