Karlien joined resolut. in June 2023. She focuses primarily on counseling hospitals, individual physicians and other health care providers, physician practices and associations. She also provides assistance to physicians in the context of proceedings before the NIHDI (RIZIV-INAMI).

Karlien has been working as a lawyer specializing in health law since 2011, and thus has accumulated extensive experience in the field, both in the area of counseling and in the area of litigation and proceedings that the various players in the health law landscape may face.

Karlien previously worked for two years as a legal staff member at the Clinical Trial Center of UZ Leuven (2009 - 2011), where she was responsible for the contracts between the university hospitals, the pharmaceutical industry and the other research partners. She was a member of the Ethics Committee of UZ Leuven until 2011.

In 2017 Karlien obtained the "Postgraduate degree in Health Law and Health Ethics" (Ahlec) at the University of Antwerp (magna cum laude).