Lisette van der Molen (PhD), is senior postdoc, coordinator of the Head and Neck Rehabilitation Program and Clinical Linguist/Speech Language Pathologist at the Netherlands Cancer Institute. She is appointed in our department of Head and Neck Oncology and Surgery since July 2006. She obtained her PhD degree from the University of Amsterdam in 2011 on the prevention of trismus, swallowing and speech problems in patients treated with chemo-radiation for advanced head and neck cancer. In 2018 she is rewarded for her thesis as best research in the last 10 years in the Netherlands related to patient care in head and neck cancer. Her main research interests are on rehabilitation after total laryngectomy and on organ (and function) preserving therapies in head and neck cancer. She has written over 50 papers and she has presented several papers at international head and neck cancer or speech and language pathology conferences, mainly dealing to functional problems after head and neck cancer treatment and functional rehabilitation after total laryngectomy.

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