Laurens Schols

Emergency physician since 2023. He combines his work in the Spaarne Gasthuis hospital in Haarlem/Hoofddorp, The Netherlands with an employment as airline pilot since 2005 at a Dutch legacy carrier. Creating a “just culture” in hospitals, similar to the safety culture in aviation is one of his great passions. He is a PhD candidate since 2025 at Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands and the institute of medical education research (iMERR, also in Rotterdam). His research focuses on performance feedback about the diagnostic process in the emergency department. In late 2024 he was granted a fellowship at the American Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) for his research.