Hans Langendijk, MD PhD

Professor Hans Langendijk is a graduate of the Vrije University in Amsterdam School of Medicine in 1989. He received his residence training in Radiation Oncology in the Radiotherapeutic Institute in Heerlen and Maastricht, which he completed in 1997. In 2000, The University of Maastricht awarded him his PhD on the thesis “Quality of Life in Non-small Cell Lung Cancer”. From 1997 to 2004, he worked at the Department of Radiation Oncology of the VU University Medical Center. During that period, he became specialised in head and neck radiation-oncology. Since October 2004, he is professor and head of the Department of Radiation Oncology of the University Medical Center Groningen.
His special interests are head and neck oncology, radiation-induced side effects and lung cancer.
Hans Langendijk is the current president of the EORTC Head and Neck Group and co-chair of the Head and Neck Subcommittee of the EORTC Radiation Oncology Group. He is also initiator and coördinator of a number of clinical (multicenter) trials. He is (co-)author of more than 160 papers and book chapters on lung cancer and head and neck oncology.