Personal information
A.J.M. (Ton) Schellart
Born: February 15, 1951, The Hague, The Netherlands
Present job (detached from the Dutch Institute for Employee Benefit Schemes UWV)
VU University Medical Center / EMGO Institute / Department of Public and Occupational Health
Research Center for Insurance Medicine (see: http://www.kcvg.nl)
Senior Researcher (since August 2005 full-time; since January 2011 part-time, 50%)
- responsible for a number of research projects of PhD-students
- responsible for funding and starting research projects in the fleld of insurance medicine, since January 2011 especially for secundary analyses.
Since Januari 2011, the other part of my time (50%) I work as senior advisor and business consultant for the Central Expertise Center for Social Medical Affairs of the Dutch Institute for Employee Benefit Schemes, with as main task: innovation and implementation of instruments a) for insurance physicians and labour experts (including designs and evaluations of experiments), and b) for management control (benchmarking, quality assessments etcetera).
Present research Interests in the field of Occupational Health (Insurance Medicine)
- sick leave, disability and return to work (RTW)
- effects of characteristics of social security systems on sick leave, disability assesments and RTW
- interaction of insurance physicians with their patients: see the project page of Jolanda van Rijssen (PhD-student)
- involving the medical expert in disablement disputes: project of Jim Faas (PhD-student)
- protocol adherence of insurance physicians: see the project page of Feico Zwerver (PhD-student)
- inter-reliability of functional capacity assesments by insurance physicians (with postdoc Romy Steenbeek, TNO)
- workload assessment (with postdoc Sjaak Broersen)
- methodological issues
Professional experience 1969-2005
1993 - 2005
Consultant and management positions in the field of Planning & Control, ICT, R&D, Data Warehousing and Policy Information at various occupational health and social security organisations (Arboned, ASZ BV, Gak Nederland BV, Dutch Institute for Employee Benefit Schemes UWV)
1984 - 1993
Joint Medical Service (GMD, Gemeenschappelijke Medische Dienst)
Manager of the Research Section “Professional Expertise of Insurance Physicians and of Labour Experts"
- Responsible for a group of six academic researchers, conducting research in the field of diseases, impairments and disability in relation to work
- Responsible for translating the research results into professional products for medical physicians and labor experts
- Publications in this period: co-editor of two books, PhD-thesis, (co-)author of thirteen research reports, (co-)author of twenty scientific and professional articles, author of eleven reviews of PhD-dissertations, co-author of research reports on the organisation of the social security in the Netherlands
1975 - 1983
Staff Member Economic Planning at various employers (Social Cultural Planning Office, Free University, University of Amsterdam, Joint Administration Office for Social Security GAK): research and development of instruments for economic planning.
1969-1975
Blue collar jobs at various employers in the building sector (carpenter, bricklayer) and in the harbour (stevedore).
Education
2006 - 2011
Postgraduate Courses: Multilevel Analysis, Structural Equations Modelling, Economic Evaluation, Longitudinal Analysis, Clinimetric master classes
1997 - 1998
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Master of Business Administration in General Management
Awards:
- on the dean's honors list
- Mr. Drs. H. Langman Leadership Award "for showing outstanding professionalism through visionary leadership, entrepeneurship, social responsibility, and promoting the development of others”
1985 - 1987
University of Amsterdam
Doctorate Degree (PhD) at the Faculty of Medicine
Thesis: Sick leave and Labour Productivity at Administrative Organisations
1981 - 1984
Postgraduate Courses: Philosophy of Science, Operations Research, Econometrics
1969 - 1977
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Master of Sciences in Economics, Sociologic Economic Program; master thesis on the field of manpower planning.
1963-1969
Aloysius College in The Hague
Grammar School ("gymnasium alpha")