Danielle Zwartjens

Attorney-at-law

Danielle Zwartjens specialises in health law and medical liability law.

Danielle is an expert in legal healthcare matters, and she has extensive experience in disciplinary law, contingency planning, issues concerning the Health and Youth Care Inspectorate (IGJ), medical criminal law, dysfunction and medical liability. Danielle also advises on matters concerning patient rights.

Danielle represents a broad range of clients, including boards of directors of health care institutions, MSBs (medical specialists' companies), medical specialists and other individual healthcare providers (BIG-registered or otherwise).

Her approach is straightforward, and she is fully committed to her clients, who can contact her at any time of day for advice.

Before Danielle joined Legaltree, she worked at other legal firms where she exclusively handled Dutch and international Health law cases.

Specialisations

Danielle advises and litigates for matters concerning Health law, including:
  • Disciplinary law
  • Dealing with emergencies
  • Health and Youth Care Inspectorate cases (IGJ)
  • Medical criminal law
  • Collaborative disputes and dysfunction
  • Medical liability
  • Patients' rights

Work experience

Danielle has been an attorney-at-law since 2003. Pels Rijcken & Droogleever Fortuijn – Health Law group, 2003-2005 Beer advocaten – 2005-2010 KBS advocaten – Substantive Health Law group, 2010-2019 Nysingh – Health Law group, 2019-2022 She became a partner at Legaltree in November 2022.

Memberships & ancillary positions

Memberships:
  • Association of Health Law (VGR)
  • Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (LSA)
Ancillary positions
  • Danielle lectures frequently at conferences and seminars and is experienced in teaching in-house courses.
  • Danielle is co-author of the Kroniek Tuchtrecht (Health Law journal) and the KwartaalSignaal Gezondheidsrecht (AA) a quarterly Health Law update.
In addition:
  • Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (LSA) – mandatory peer review coordinator, 2014-present
  • KwartaalSignaal Gezondheidsrecht, Ars Aequi – Co-author, 2019-present
  • Lecturer Estate Planning Expert, Living Will, 2021-present
Memberships
  • Association of Health Law (VGR), 2003-present
  • Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (LSA), 2005-present

Education

  • Leiden University – Civil law / Health law (with honours), 2003
  • Grotius Academy – postgraduate specialisation Personal Injury, 2008
  • Grotius Academy – postgraduate specialisation Health law, 2021

Specialisatie

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