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Jan Anthonie Bruijn

Jan Anthonie Bruijn (1958) became a senator in the Dutch Parliament in 2012. He was spokesman on Healthcare and Education, and vice-chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Welfare and Sport. On July 2, 2019, he was elected President of the Senate. 

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 Bruijn studied medicine in Baltimore (Johns Hopkins University) and Rotterdam (Erasmus University). He obtained his PhD degree and specialised in Clinical Pathology in Leiden (Leiden University) and Boston (Harvard University). He completed seminars on Innovation and the Future of Healthcare in Fontainebleau (INSEAD summer school 2001, 2003). Since 1996 he is professor of Pathology at Leiden University Medical Center. 

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In 2010, 2012, and 2016 Bruijn was chairman of the writing committee of the national political manifesto for the Dutch Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD). He was a member and chair of several national advisory and institutional supervisory boards in the fields higher education and healthcare. He was Crown member of the national Council on Education, chair of the national Council on Science, Technology, and Innovation, and president of the International Renal Pathology Society. Dr Bruijn is a member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities and chairman of the supervisory board of the Amsterdam University of the Arts. 

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