Time for some acknowledgements!

Last week, I successfully defended my PhD thesis at 荷兰鹿特丹大学 and capped off four great years of research at Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management (ESHPM) (ESHPM). Pursuing a PhD has been a dream come true, and I would like to express my gratitude to the people who made this possible and those whose support has inspired me.

From Universiteit Utrecht , both Rutger-Jan Scholtens and Yvon van der Pijl have personally aided me. Thank you! To NALACS in general, and Christien Klaufus in particular, thank you for your appreciation back in 2015! From 比利时荷语天主教鲁汶大学 , thanks to Helder De Schutter and Patrick Pasture .

At ESHPM, I would like to express my gratitude to everybody at the Health Care Governance department, who have created such a wonderful work environment. Special thanks to Roland Bal , Bert de Graaff , Lieke Oldenhof , Robert Borst , Martijn Felder , Tineke Kleinhout-Vliek , Marthe Stevens ?? , Tessa van Dijk, PhD , Sabrina Rahmawan-Huizenga , and Koray Parmaksiz . Additional gratitude goes to Teyler van Muijden and Oemar van der Woerd , I owe you one!

Several colleagues from other departments/organizations have played a critical role in my research: Kees Ahaus , Paul Bastiaan van der Nat , Fabio Mieris , and Lonneke Timmers . Thank you for your collaboration; my thesis would not have been the same without you!

To my supervisors, Hester van de Bovenkamp , Antoinette de Bont , and Diana Delnoij , I could not have hoped for better guidance. Thank you, dream supervisory team!

These acknowledgements are a summarized excerpt of the preface to "A Scramble for Value," where I also include my friends and family members.

Here, I would also like to thank the members of the doctoral committee: Dirk Ruwaard , Johan Polder , Linetta Koppert , Hester Lingsma , and Ian Leistikow . And thanks to Zorginstituut Nederland for their funding!

Two additional names cannot go unmentioned: Barbara Morales and Anneke Steinmann . Thank you for everything! Your support is, and has been, invaluable!

And what the heck, thanks to by?Michael Porter?&?Elizabeth Teisberg for their pioneering work on value-based health care. #vbhc #valuebasedhealthcare #shareddecisionmaking #samenbeslissen #passendezorg #healthcare #phd #phdjourney #gezondheidszorg #gratitude