RIHS has awarded the Richard Grol Visiting Scientist Award 2018 to Heather Whitson, Associate Professor of Medicine with Tenure in the Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Heather Whitson was nominated for the award by René Melis of theme Healthcare improvement science. Considering her impressive CV as well as her inspiring lecture and college tour in Nijmegen on 12 April 2018, the RIHS management had an easy task in deciding to award Heather Whitson.
The Richard Grol Visiting Scientist Award is named after the founder of the Institute (formerly known as NCEBP, Nijmegen Centre for Evidence Based Practice) who had the vision to connect the population sciences of the Radboudumc in a strong methodology-oriented research institute. The Award aims at the initiation of new collaborations with foreign institutes in the field of Health Sciences in order to strengthen the Radboud Institute for Health Sciences through teaching or research. The Award is granted once a year, and comes in the form of € 5000, for travel and accommodation for the awardee for one or more short stays in Nijmegen.
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