Basic Information

Name: Arwen Pieterse
Title: Associate professor
Institution: Leiden University Medical Center
Discipline: Communication studies
Years of experience: 20

Research

Primary methodological research approach:

• Oncology
• Patient–provider relationship

Focus of research in communication and healthcare:

• Delphi and consensus finding methods
• Observational studies
• Qualitative methods

Description

Three keywords describing expertise and interest:

1. shared decision making

Description of field of expertise, major interests, and consultation topics:

Defining and assessing observed and perceived shared decision making, as well as related topics (e.g., information provision, implicit persuasion, role of time in patient involvement, patient readiness for shared decision making). Interested in what clinicians need to involve patients.

Brief biography:

Arwen H. Pieterse, PhD is Associate professor in person-centered care at Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands, and Visiting professor at the University of Oslo, Norway. She obtained her PhD from Utrecht University, The Netherlands in 2005 on a study assessing communication in genetic counselling. She was Research fellow of the Dutch Cancer Society (2008-2011). She is/has been PI on several grants for multicenter studies to study doctor-patient communication during decision consultations, measuring shared decision making, and determinants of patient involvement in decision making. Most of her research focuses on cancer treatment decision making. She received the 2018 Jozien Bensing award from the International Association for Communication in Healthcare (EACH). She is Associate editor of Patient Education and Counseling since 2017, and has (co-) authored >100 peer-reviewed international papers. She chaired the 2022 ICCH conference, Glasgow, UK.