About Tom Oostrom | Director, Dutch Kidney Foundation

Tom Oostrom (1964) has been Managing Director of the Dutch Kidney Foundation since 2010. With the motto "Life comes first" the Kidney Foundation gives everything to make sure kidney patients survive ánd their quality of life improves. Tom Oostrom learned from practice: he started out as a nurse. His drive is to make a real difference for kidney patients, to help make their lives livable. This is necessary, because a renal disease is severe and makes a deep impact in someones life.

Oostrom is member of the Supervisory Board of Nextkidney (company developing the portable artificial kidney), Patient advocate member of the board of directors of RegMedXB, vice-chair of the advisory board of the Topsector Life Sciences & Health, member of the board of Directors of the European Kidney Health Alliance (EKHA), and involved in different supervisory or advisory roles in Dutch charity field and the Dutch healthcare sector.