1. Current Status, Position

Prof Dr. Jelle Tichelaar holds the position of Clinical Pharmacologist and Associate Professor at the Amsterdam University Medical Center. His role encompasses overseeing the education in clinical pharmacology and therapeutics across various healthcare professional programs, including medicine, dentistry, physician assistants, and advanced nursing practice. In addition, Dr. Tichelaar serves as the Endowed Professor for Interprofessional Collaboration and Medication Safety at Inholland University of Applied Sciences.

2. Education

He studied Medicine at VU University in Amsterdam and became a licensed clinical pharmacologist in 2017. In 2016 he obtained a PhD in medicine at VU University in Amsterdam for his work on Context Based Pharmacotherapy Education. 

3. Research Area

His research focusses on several aspects of pharmacotherapy education. Prof Dr. Jelle Tichelaar did research on context based pharmacotherapy education such as student run clinics, but also on interprofessional learning, rational prescribing, assessment and curriculum design. The past few years he has been working on four large international Erasmusplus projects:

-the European Prescribing Exam (EuroPE+)
-the European Open Platform for Prescribing Education (EurOP2E)
-the Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics Teach The Teacher Training (CP4T)
-the Planetary Health Education in Prescribing (PlanED Prescribing). 

4. Conflict of interest

None