We are Junction Care

Junction connects healthcare professionals and others.The foundation encourage everyone to look at their work with a fresh perspective. We do this by connecting the dots of healthcare, education, science, arts together.

Our aim is to promote the dialogue between patient and healthcare professional through literature, poetry, music and visual representation. Thus in 2018 a mission was born which, in addition to a scientific approach, wants to stimulate empathetic care.

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We are Junction

Junction brings healthcare professionals and others together.

The foundation wants to encourage everyone to look at themselves, others and their work with a fresh perspective. We do this by connecting the disciplines of healthcare, education, science, and the arts.

The aim is to promote the dialogue between patient and healthcare professional through literature, poetry, music and visual representation. Thus, in 2018, a mission was born, which, in addition to a scientific approach, also wants to stimulate empathetic care.

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Heleen Eising

Founder/Chairman of the board of Junction Care

Gynaecologist Gelre Hospitals
Reseacher MUMC/GROW research Maastricht

PhD: Towards tailoring care in the gynaecology for women with bleeding disorders

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Renate van Leuken

Member of the board

Midwife and sonographer at midwifery practice Doevendans, Apeldoorn

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Megan Milota

Member of the board

Literary scholar and associate professor at UMC Utrecht, Department of Bioethics and Health Humanities, focus Narrative Medicine


PhD: ‘The heart of what we believe’: Cultural negotiation of religion in the fiction of Marilynne Robinson, Louise Erdrich and Allegra Goodman.

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Marieke Punt

Member of the advisory board

Medical advisor at CSL Behring, epidemiologist, researcher Gelre Ziekenhuizen Apeldoorn


PhD: Inherited bleeding disorders in obstetrics and gynaecology: a multidisciplinary approach

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Louwien Eising

Member of the advisory board

Educationalist and rector of Carmelcollege Emmen en Haren,

Member of the field advisory board group of the University of Groningen Teacher Training Programme

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Evelyn Grimberg

Member of the advisory board

Client consulant at WPG research Duiven

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Website: Where stories and art bring new light to healthcare

Science and art are a powerful combination for expanding perspectives in healthcare. Non profit organisation Junction Care has gathered personal stories

State Secretary Judith Tielen visits Gelre Hospitals

On Wednesday, 3 December 2025, Gelre Hospitals welcomed State Secretary Judith Tielen...

In the Media: Gynecologist Warns About Unknown Disease: ‘Diagnosis Often 15 Years Too Late’

"It’s just part of it" and "you just have to learn to live with it"—these are things women often hear when dealing with menstrual problems.