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About
Wouter A. Keijser is an enthusiast and scholar in healthcare transformation.
Dr Keijser has a background in medicine (MD training: Free University of Amsterdam; Radboud University Nijmegen; Mayo Clinic, USA), and a career in consultancy at various levels.
As a change management enthusiast Wouter has coached and facilitated 'boundary spanners' and other professionals and managers in healthcare organizations and regions across the Netherlands and various regions within the European Union. Wouter is a certified healthcare leadership coach (NHS, UK), Europe's first TeamSTEPPS Master Trainer (DoD/AHRQ, USA) and Human Synergistic executive coach.
Wouter teaches change management, leadership development and organisational behaviour at the Faculty of BMS, University Twente (UT), including the UT Honours program. His scholarly work is couched in the UT Change Management and Organizational Behavior department.
Leading topics in Wouters' scientific and field work are: interprofessional practise, collaborative governance and leadership development.
Having finished his PhD research, Wouter succesfully defended his thesis ‘Opening Up Medicine: Physicians and Leadership in Times of Transformation’, on December 13th, 2019. He was granted a Cum Laude. See: https://www.utwente.nl/en/education/tgs/currentcandidates/phd/calendar/2019/12/371999/phd-defence-wouter-keijser.
Currently Wouter functiona as ‘chief trail blazer’ of the School of Regional Healthcare Transformation, at the University of Twente.