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Elise Quik was born in Harderwijk the 21st of August 1980. After studying psychology in Utrecht in 2000, where she finished her master in neuro- and bio-psychology August 2004, she started to work as a researcher and teacher at section psychopharmacology of the pharmacology department in Utrecht on a project on the effects of growth hormone deficiency in patients who received external beam radiation therapy for brain tumors, financed by Pfizer via the endocrinology department of the UMCU. Since 2006 she performed her research at the section experimental psychology & psychopharmacology of the psychology department until April 2010 and defended her thesis on the effect of the somatotropic axis/growth hormone on cognitive functions August 31st, 2012. In December 2010 she started to work as a postdoc at the Department of Epidemiology at the University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) as part of Paul Krabbe’s Health Technology Assessment group. She enjoyed working together with other researchers and physicians on the economic evaluation of health as part of interesting UMCG studies. Her main interest concerned discrete choice experiment, micro-simulation modeling and value judgment of drugs. From 2014 till 2016 she was working as a postdoc at the RUG, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Pharmacotherapy and Pharmaceutical Care on project Discontinuing inappropriate medication in nursing home residents. Since 2016 she was working as an assistant professor at the UMCU division Julius Center. First at section HTA under Ardine de Wit and in 2017 and from 2018 at the nursing science department on project proactive integral elderly care Om U 3.0. In 2019 she started working on the HTx project as researcher and coordinator at the UU and since 2020 at Zorginstituut Nederland on Uitkomstgerichte zorg & HTx: https://www.prom-select.eu/proms.
Driven scientific researcher in the field of psychopharmacology, experimental psychology, biopsychology, neuropsychology, cognitive psychology, endocrinology, health technology assessment (HTA), choice modeling and proactive elderly care. Personal interest in nutrition, cooking, traveling, autism, perception and ethics in research.