Current position
Dr. Jesse Jansen is an Associate Professor in the department of Family Medicine at Maastricht University. She leads an interdisciplinary research group on Shared Decision Making and Interprofessional Collaboration within the CAPHRI research line Promoting Health and Personalised Care. She heads the theme Appropriate Care within the Academic Workplace for General Practice Southeast Netherlands (Horizon). She also coordinates the clinical internship in General Practice for Master of Medicine students

Education
Jesse trained as a cognitive and health psychologist and obtained her PhD in health communication and medical decision making. She spent eleven years at the University of Sydney, supported by two competitive fellowships from the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council, and co-founded the Sydney Health Literacy Lab. Throughout her career she has combined behavioral science, medicine, and health communication to advance patient-centered and evidence based healthcare.

Research area
Her research focuses on medical decision making, in the contex of appropriate and sustainable healthcare. Topics include risk communication, deprescribing, and the behavioural and communicative mechanisms underlying overdiagnosis and overtreatment. She studies how patients and clinicians understand information, deal with uncertainty, and make choices together, and how digital health and AI influence these processes. Her work has been published widely and has informed clinical guidelines, patient information, and health policy. She contributes to international networks such as the Society for Medical Decision Making, the International Shared Decision Making Society, the International Patient Decision Aid Standards.

Conflict of interest
None.