Dr. Fred K.L. Spijkervet

Dr. Fred K.L. Spijkervet studied Dentistry at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, The Netherlands, and graduated in 1984 as DMD. After his Military Service as Dentist, he was appointed as Clinical Researcher at the Dept. Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospital Groningen (1986 – 1988) on a Grant of the Dutch Cancer Society. Dr. Spijkervet finished his PhD on oral mucositis, and graduated on February 8th, 1989. He started his residency in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in 1988 and was registered as Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeon in 1992. Since 1992 he is appointed as staff member of the Department OMFS at the University Medical Centre Groningen, The Netherlands. He was appointed as Clinical Director of the same department in 2001. In the academic field he is active in the area of TMJ-disorders and Chronic Pain patients, as well as the supportive care in cancer patients, and research in Sjögren’s Syndrome. Furthermore, Dr. Spijkervet is appointed at the University of Groningen as Associate Professor. His education responsibility for the dental and medical school is in the field of oral medicine. In 1999 he was honored as ‘Teacher of the Year’. Dr Spijkervet is member of several national and international learned societies, and member of the national board of the Specialist Registration Committee (SRC). He has published, as author and co-author, numerous peer reviewed articles.