Winner of the CaRe award 2025

Sjim Romme

On Thursday 3 April, the winner of the Care Award 2025 was announced by Prof.Dr. Chris van Weel, at the CaRe days in Eindhoven. First the candidates of the three best PhD theses were announced:

Top 3

Helga Emke (APH)
Selma Musters (APH)
Sjim Romme (CAPHRI)

The jury said that it were three very different studies but distinctive from the others when it came to patient-person centeredness, long-term investment in population health and critical reflection on the impact of research on care and prevention.

The jury awarded Sjim Romme with the CaRe Award 2025 for his dissertation: ‘Patient involvement as a two-way street. How patients can be prepared for and benefit from involvement in healthcare professionals’ training’.

Nominations 2025

The nominees of this year were:

CAPHRI:

1. Veja Widdershoven: Unravelling vaccination behaviour: observational and experimental studies
2. Sjim Romme: Patient involvement as a two-way street: How patients can be prepared for and benefit from involvement in healthcare professionals’ training

Radboudumc:

1. Eline Allard: Statin-Associated Muscle Symptoms: from mechanism to intervention to clinical practice
2. Ward Heij: Coach2Move: Implementation and Evaluation of Person-centered Physical therapy for Older adults

APH:

1. Selma Musters: Patient and family involvement in care after oncology surgery
2. Helga Emke: Combining Systems Thinking and Youth-Centred Participatory Action Research for Health Promotion in an Underserved Neighbourhood

Nivel:

1. Elize Vis: Chronic conditions and informal social capital. Mediators and moderators in different contexts
2. Marit Mentink: Communication about Complementary Medicine in Oncology