About me
Marc van Mil is associate professor biomedical education at University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands. He cares about and contributes to the professional development of future clinicians, clinician scientists and biomedical scientists; both by being an excellent teacher and a dedicated educational researcher. Marc’s background in biotechnology, combined with a PhD in the educational sciences forms a unique and solid basis for his scholarly work within the educational institute of the medical faculty of Utrecht University. His current line of research, entitled ‘Educating for Open Science’, explores educational strategies that help students to cross boundaries between disciplines and broaden their perspective on the societal impact of biomedical innovations. In his view, education can play a crucial role in helping health care professionals to identify how to contribute to the challenges in translational medicine. In 2017 Marc was awarded “Higher Education Teacher of the Year” in the Netherlands. The jury praised his efforts to make students aware of the societal impact of biomedical innovations and they applauded his efforts to engage the public in the scientific developments in biomedicine and to raise awareness of the impact of new technologies such as CRISPR/Cas and Next Generation Sequencing. Marc gave many public lectures and participated in talk shows, science festivals, children’s TV-shows and YouTube-clips.www.uu.nl/staff/mhwvanmilWho I am Video: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/aqvcnl1xtj9l9bu8y9x7q/IMG_9130-Marc-van-Mil.MOV?rlkey=mryczjp39ji79gxrsyfp2ceol&st=9540vhnh&dl=0
