After having worked as a midwife for about 20 years, she studied health sciences, and did her PhD on the management of primary care practices in Europe. Since 2006, she leads a research group on anticipatory palliative care. She closely collaborates with the transmural palliative care expert team. She led several quantitative and qualitative studies on identification of patients that might profit of palliative care, and of the effect of anticipatory care provision. She also led two EU funded research projects, and is co-WP leader of a currently running EU project (PACE). She coaches medical students, is actively involved in medical education and in communication training for doctors and nurses, supervised 8 PhD students who finished their thesis, and is still supervisor of 7 PhD students.