Anne Eskes

Anne Eskes is Professor by special appointment of Patient and Family Participation in Clinical Care at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS) and associate professor within the Department of Surgery at Amsterdam UMC. Her research operates through a collaboration between AUAS, Amsterdam UMC, and OLVG, with additional affiliation as adjunct senior research fellow at Griffith University in Australia since 2018.

Dr. Eskes earned her PhD in 2012 with background in nursing and clinical epidemiology. She has held her AUAS professorship since 2022, worked at Amsterdam UMC since 2017, and was appointed principal nurse educator at Amsterdam UMC in 2019 for her exceptional talent in educational innovation. As principal investigator at Cancer Center Amsterdam, she serves on the research board guiding cancer care research.

Her research focuses on two interconnected domains: patient and family participation in clinical nursing care, and evidence-based wound care. In the first area, Dr. Eskes investigates how nurses can facilitate family-centered care as essential partners for quality and safety in healthcare. Her work addresses the growing healthcare demands from aging populations, recognizing that by 2040, one in four people may need to be involved in care delivery. In wound care, she examines preoperative and postoperative surgical interventions, recognizing how non-healing wounds impact patients' quality of life and social participation.

Recent publications demonstrate her focus on practical applications of patient-family engagement across multiple healthcare contexts. Her work examines outcomes of family involvement programs, the impact of education on nurses' competencies, and innovative approaches like mobile applications for patient self-management in chronic conditions like stoma care. These studies span surgery, oncology, and chronic wound management, highlighting the cross-cutting nature of patient-family participation.

• Research grants from ZonMw
• Research grants from KWF
• Innovation grants from Amsterdam UMC
• Interviewed by Wall Street Journal (2023)
• Multiple Dutch media appearances discussing family involvement in healthcare

Dr. Eskes serves as principal investigator at Cancer Center Amsterdam and contributes to academic discourse through editorial work, including peer review for BSL Publisher. Her research fingerprint shows strong activity in systematic reviews, wound care, family involvement, meta-analysis, surgical wound care, and family-centered care. She has published over 70 international peer-reviewed articles and approximately 50 national publications in professional nursing journals, establishing her as a leading voice in patient-centered care models that optimize the role of patients and families in healthcare delivery.