Liesbeth works as of 2019 as Dutch Cancer Society Young Investigator/Assistant Professor, at the Department of Health, Medical and Neuropsychology. She also holds a (Visiting) Research Fellow appointment at the OLVG Hospital Amsterdam and a Visiting Appointment at Nivel (Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research). In addition, she serves as a Board Member of the Dutch Organization for Psychosocial Oncology (NVPO). and as a European Association in Healthcare Communication (EACH) Deputy National Representative. She was a NIAS-KNAW 2019/2020 Fellow.

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Background

Liesbeth works as of 2019 as Dutch Cancer Society Young Investigator/Assistant Professor, at the Department of Health, Medical and Neuropsychology. She also holds a (Visiting) Research Fellow appointment at the OLVG Hospital Amsterdam and a Visiting Appointment at Nivel (Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research). In addition, she serves as a Board Member of the Dutch Organization for Psychosocial Oncology (NVPO) and as a European Association in Healthcare Communication (EACH) Deputy National Representative. She was a NIAS-KNAW 2019/2020 Fellow. 

Before joining the Department, Liesbeth worked as a Researcher/Research Fellow at Nivel (2008-2012 & 2015-2018); UMC Utrecht, Dept of Genetics (2016); and King’s College London, Dept of Palliative Care & Rehabilitation (Cicely Saunders Institute, 2013-2015) & Dept of Health Psychology (2012). She holds a BSc in Clinical and Health Psychology (with Honours) and MSc in Clinical Psychology, Erasmus University Rotterdam (2003-2008).

Research

Liesbeth studies how communication can heal and harm when patients are confronted with a serious, life-threatening illness. To do so, she combines insights from communication & palliative care & placebo-and nocebo-effect research. She is interested in the evidence-base of various communication elements; ranging from information-provision to clinician-expressed empathy. Most of her research focusses on oncology, but she also has experience in the domains of neurology and pediatric palliative care. She is experienced in a range of quantitative and qualitative methodologies; from experimental video-vignette designs, observational studies, to clinical RCTs.

Teaching activities

• Health Psychology in Practice
• Cross-cultural Psychology of Health and Illness
• (Research) Master thesis supervision
• Bachelor thesis supervision
• Research internship supervision
• Coordination Health and Medical Psychology
• Coordination Perspectives in Clinical Neuroscience

Research Grants (selection)

• ZonMW Palliantie. Title: increasing READYness for advance care planning in dementia. (Co-applicant) 2023-2025
• KNAW Early Career Partnership. What (not) to say: unraveling the (un)questionable ideal of open information-provision in advanced cancer. (Personal Grant) 2021-2022
• Dutch Cancer Society. Title: Make open Communication about evidence-based Complementary Medicine part of routine oncology practice; the participatory development of supporting tool COMMON (Co-applicant) 2020-2023
• Leids University Fund (LUF). Title:  How words can hurt: Unraveling the nocebo-effects of communication in advanced cancer care  (Personal Grant) 2020-2021
• Dutch L’OrealUNESCO For Women in Science Award. Title: Nocebo-effects of information-provision and communication in serious illness (Personal grant), 2019
• Young Investigator Grant Dutch Cancer Society. Title: Decreasing the burden of knowledge by improving communication with seriously ill breast cancer patients (Personal Grant), 2018-2022
• Scientific Society OLVG. Title: Examining the effects of enhanced providerpatient communication on post-operative pain; an RCT performed in daily clinical care. (Principal Investigator), 2017-2019
• Foundation for the Science of the Therapeutic Encounter (FSTE). Title: Examining the effects of enhanced provider-patient communication on post-operative pain; an RCT performed in daily clinical care (Personal grant), 2017-2019
• ZonMw Palliantie. Title: A basic understanding. Towards appropriate information provision for and decision making with patients with limited health literacy in hospital-based palliative care (Co-applicant), 2018-2022
• Dutch Care Institute. Title: Shared Decision making with noncurative colorectal- and lung-cancer patients (Principal Investigator), 2016

Awards (selection)

• Heineken Young Scientist Award 2022
• EACH Jozien Bensing Research Award 2021
• VIVA-400 awardee (listed as 1 of 92 successful and inspiring women in healthcare) (2020)
• Dutch L’OrealUNESCO For Women in Science Award (2019)            
• Young Investigator Grant Dutch Cancer Society (20182022)
• CaRe Award best PhD 2013        
• Best poster prize SIOP Conference (International Society of Paediatric Oncology) 2008
• Erasmus Honours Bachelor Programme 2005  

Education

• Good Clinical Practice (2022)
• EURO IMPACT training (European Intersectorial and MultidisciplinaryPalliative Care Research Training) (2013-2014)     
• PhD training Research school Psychology & Health, Utrecht University / Nivel (20082011)

Teaching (selection)

• Teacher Netherlands Institute for Health Sciences (NIHES) (2016-current)
• Teacher Minor Medical Psychology, Erasmus University Rotterdam (2016)   
• Teacher/Tutor/Examiner MSc in Palliative Care, King’s College London (20142015)     
• Examiner Communication skills Medical OSCE (Medicine), King’s College London (2014)
• Scientific Teacher Psychology BSc, Erasmus University Rotterdam (2007-2008)    

Memberships

• ASCO (America Society of Clinical Oncology)
• SIPS (Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies)
• NVPO (Dutch Organization for Psychosocial Oncology)
• PPI (Patient Provider Interaction network, Netherlands/Flanders)
• EACH (European Association for Communication in Healthcare)
• NIAS-KNAW Fellows Association

Relevant links

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Publications