Certified Emergency Nurse, Haaglanden Medical Centre; Netherlands

Dr. Christien van der Linden is a Certified Emergency Nurse who completed her Masters of Science in Nursing, her Masters of Science in Clinical Epidemiology, and her PhD at the University of Amsterdam.

Her PhD-thesis “Emergency Department Crowding: Factors influencing Flow” includes 10 published articles on this subject.

Christien works as a Clinical Epidemiologist, Research Coordinator, and Expert in Evidence Based Practice at the Emergency Department of Haaglanden Medical Center in the Hague in the Netherlands.

Christien has published over 50 scientific articles in national and international journals. She is the chair of the Scientific Committee of the European Society for Emergency Nurses and member of the Scientific Committee of the Dutch Association of Emergency Medicine.