Vivienne van de Walle studied medicine at the Univerisity of Maastricht in the Netherlands and did part of her medical training at the University of Oxfordin the UK. During her medical training she enjoyed the combination of patient care and clinical research. She received an additional medical science degreee for her research in OBGYN, peadiatrics and genetics when she graduated. In 2004 she succesfully defended her thesis on Auxology for her PhD. She has always combined clinical research with patient care and has been a full time investigator since 1999 at an independent clinical research site, which she co-owns since 2006. In 2011 she passed the CPI exam. She has been invited to teach at CROs, Pharma companies and at Universities She is also often asked as a consultant for CROs and pharma regarding protocol development, feasibilities and Company - Site relationship. This makes that she knows both sites of the table regarding clinical research.