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12.4 Curriculum vitae
The author of this thesis, Matthijs H. Valstar
was born on April 29, 1978 in Zwolle, the
Netherlands. He is the son of Gerda Valstar-
Nieuwenhuisen and Johan Valstar and grew
up with his younger sisters Anneleen and
Harriet. After completing secondary school
at the Carolus Clusius College in Zwolle,
he started Medical School at the University of Groningen in 1996 and graduated as a Medical Doctor in 2003. Clinical experience as a junior doctor was gained as an emergency department physician, partially in combination with a Master of Science in Dentistry from 2005 until 2008 at the University of Amsterdam. He started the specialist training in maxillofacial surgery in 2008 supervised by prof. dr. van den Akker. After a program at the Amsterdam University Medical Center (AUMC, location AMC), the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NCI) Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (supervised by prof. dr. Smeele), the Isala Clinics in Zwolle and again the AUMC (supervised by prof. dr. de Lange), he completed the training program in 2012.
Later that year, the author started a PhD-research project at the NCI under the inspiring supervision of prof. dr. Smeele and professor dr. Balm, parallel with clinical work as a maxillofacial surgeon. The research activities resulted in the “PALGA-prize” at the 2015 Dutch Pathologists conference. In 2016, he completed a two-year postgraduate master degree in Clinical Epidemiology at the University of Amsterdam, supervised by dr. Stuiver. During this master, he contributed as a member of the education committee to the introduction of digital classes. he master-thesis on the nationwide cohort of pleomorphic adenoma patients led to other projects among which that on malignant transformation, supervised by dr. Loes van Velthuysen. In 2019, the author focused his clinical activities as an oral and maxillofacial surgeon in the Flevohospital, Almere and joined the partnership in 2020. In 2021, the author was delegated by the Dutch Association of Nuclear Medicine for the 2-yearly Science and Innovation Award of the Dutch Federation of Medical Specialists for the research project on the tubarial glands. This multi- center seven-specialty project, that was managed together with dr. Wouter Vogel, was extensively reported on both in medical and in public international media [1–4].
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