Research team

Myriam Hunink, MD, PhD, is the initiator and principal investigator of the DESTRESS study. She is Professor in Clinical Epidemiology and Radiology at the Erasmus MC and Adjunct Professor in Health Decision Sciences at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. Furthermore, she is the director of the Netherlands Institute of Health Sciences (NIHES) at Erasmus MC.  

We acknowledge the valuable contributions, dedication, and hard work of  the student research team in performing the DESTRESS study. Without the help of these students, the study would not be possible:   Olivia Steijlen, Stijntje Dijk, Esmee de Bloois, Nhi Nguyen, Ana Mikolic, Nils de Haan, Prisca Houtman, Emma de Bruin, Yinglan Zhou, Thomas Vu, Anna Bierbooms, Kelly van Hoof, Amrish Nanhu, Kaman Lim, Ashni Couprie, Jamie Gilles, Chi Mai Nguyen, Nicole Lageweg, Yanera Wallé, Bo van den Berg, Sophie Jacobs, Chia-Ping Lu.

We acknowledge the support of the following faculty members:  Leonieke Kranenburg, Ellen Rouwet, Tessa Kouwenhoven, Witte Hoogendijk, Annemarie Luik, Lea Jabbarin, Adriaan van ‘t Spijker.

We acknowledge the contributions of the following trainers for providing the resilience training programs:   Marlies van der Meer, Marijke van Duinhoven, Huub de Weerd, Myriam Hunink, Anita Paalvast, Charlie Ramsaran, Martijn Visser, Willy Rozendal, Adilson da Silva, Deborah Lo-Wo-Fong, Pauline Mendelaar, Susanne van Hooven, Aniek de Rooij, Leonieke Kranenburg, Juriena de Vries, Ellen Rouwet, Karin Karis, Kimberly Woodland.