Prof. Jan L.N. Roodenburg PhD

Jan Roodenburg is extraordinary professor in Maxillofacial Oncology and Head of the Div. Oncology of the Dept. Maxillofacial Surgery of the University Medical Centre Groningen (UMCG) in The Netherlands. This Division is part of the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Oncology Group of the UMCG that works in close cooperation with Medical Centre Leeuwarden (MCL). This group sees about 400 new head and neck cancer cases each year. Therefore the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Oncology Group UMCG-MCL has the possibility to do clinical research, give training in Head and Neck Oncology to specialists, trainees, nurse practioners, medical and dental students and nurses.

His research fields are PET, in vivo fluorescence of premalignant and malignant lesions of the oral mucosa, radiotherapy and chemotherapy induced oral mucositis, morbidity of neckdissection, CO2-laser surgery of oral leukoplakia, dental implants in head and neck cancer patients, nutrition in head and neck cancer patients and malignancies in Sögren’s syndrome.

He did and does board functions as chairman of the Dutch Head and Neck Cooperative Group, President of the 7th International Congress on Oral Cancer 2001 in The Hague, chairman of the committee for national guidelines for the treatment of oral and oropharygeal cancer and chairman for the committee for site visits and accreditation of multidisciplinary head and neck cancer centres.
Jan Roodenburg and the Div. Oncology of the Dept. Maxillofacial Surgery are acknowledged for the two year extended training in Head and Neck Oncology for Maxillofacial Surgeons. He is involved in the education and training of trainees in maxillofacial surgery, nurse practioners, medical and dental students and nurses.

He is member of the board of the journal Oral Oncology and reviewer for the Dutch National Cancer Foundation.