MD PhD-candidate, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, The Netherlands

Kelly is a medical doctor since 2014 and worked as a surgical resident not in training in different hospitals for 3,5 years. She developed a special interest in sentinel events, and quality and safety in general, after being professionally involved in a sentinel event. The topic of her thesis is learning from sentinel events in healthcare with particular focus on the quality of recommendations following incident analyses. She works closely with the Netherlands Federation of University Medical Centres and the Dutch Healthcare Inspectorate and is vice president of the Amsterdam UMC Quality Improvement Academy, Chapter of the IHI Open School of Health Professions.