Irma Everink MSc

Irma Everink was born on the 21st of December 1985 in Budel-Schoot, the Netherlands. After completing her secondary school ‘at Elzendaalcollege’ in Boxmeer in 2004, she started with a Bachelor of General Health Sciences at Maastricht University. She completed her bachelor's degree in 2007 and enrolled in the master's ‘Health Services Innovation’ this same year. After graduating in 2009 she went traveling through South-East Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. Shortly after her return to the Netherlands, she started a second master's at the Maastricht Graduate School of Governance.

Irma Everink completed her Master ‘Public Policy and Human Development’ in 2011. In the following years, Irma combined two jobs. She worked in a home care organization (GroenekruisDomicura) and at Zuyd University of Applied Sciences (Department of Technology in Care). There she worked as a junior researcher on two projects: lifestyle monitoring and care television. In 2013 she started her Ph.D. trajectory at Maastricht University under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ruud Kempen, Prof. Dr. Jos Schols, and Dr. Jolanda van Haastregt. This Ph.D. project was focused on the development, implementation, and evaluation of an integrated care pathway in geriatric rehabilitation and resulted in this thesis. Irma is currently being employed as a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Health Services Research where she works on a project focused on the sustainable implementation of the integrated care pathway in geriatric rehabilitation. Next to this, she works as a researcher on the ‘National Prevalence Measurement of Quality of Care’ project (Landelijke Prevalentiemeting Zorgkwaliteit)