Monique van Leerdam

Prof. Monique van Leerdam is a medical doctor and clinical epidemiologist, working in the Netherlands Cancer Institute in Amsterdam and the Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands. Her expertise is in treating patient with hereditary gastrointestinal cancer syndromes. Furthermore, she is a medical expert in prevention, early detection and treatment of early gastrointestinal neoplasia.

She has a broad background in research. She was involved in several CRC screening trials in the Netherlands that have led to the introduction of the Dutch CRC screening program in 2014. Since the start of the Dutch CRC screening program She is one of the PI’s of the monitoring and evaluation committee of this screening program informing the government about the results. Furthermore, she has a long record of studies in hereditary cancer syndromes. She has supervised 23 PhD students who completed their thesis. She is currently supervising another 7 PhD students, doing research in early detection and treatment of gastrointestinal neoplasia either on high risk individuals or average risk individuals. She has a broad collaboration with national and international expert centers. Next to this, she is involved in several (inter)national guidelines, in the Public Affairs Committee of the United European Gastroenterology and in the European Committee Initiative on CRC, updating new European guidelines.