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Jeroen Kooman new director EDLAB education innovation institute

The Executive Board of Maastricht University (UM) has appointed Jeroen Kooman, professor of chronic renal failure at the NUTRIM research school and internist at MUMC+, as new director of EDLAB, the UM institute for education innovation. He will start on 1 September 2020 as successor to Harm Hospers, EDLAB director since 2015.

Jeroen Kooman has had a successful career within the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences (FHML) and MUMC+, combining patient care, research and education from the start of his career. He obtained his doctorate from UM in 1992 and is also an alumnus of the university. Jeroen Kooman is currently a consultant nephrologist in the Department of Internal Medicine at MUMC+, where he also teaches in the field of nephrology. He has held several positions within the educational institute of FHML, including that of undergraduate coordinator for medicine. He also followed a Master of Science in Health Professions programme. Kooman currently chairs the Programme Committee for Medicine at UM. ‘I am very pleased with the appointment of Professor Kooman as director of EDLAB,’ says UM rector Rianne Letschert. ‘Professor Kooman has convinced the appointments advisory committee of his keen vision on educational quality and innovation, and the importance of interfaculty collaboration in rolling out innovations and making them sustainable.’

Jeroen Kooman himself is delighted with the appointment: ‘I am very much looking forward to helping an enthusiastic team to realise UM’s ambitions in the field of education innovation and development in the coming years. I see it as an important task to connect knowledge and expertise within the various faculties, which  in recent months have seen an acceleration in education innovation. This has created important momentum for the further development of problem-oriented education in a changing society. EDLAB can play an important role in this as a knowledge centre and network organisation.’

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