Olga Husson

Associate group leader

In September 2018, I started at the NKI as senior researcher. My research focuses on the health-related quality of life issues of adolescents and young adults with cancer and of patients with sarcoma.

Health-related quality of life

Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology

Sarcoma

Experience:

2003-2006: Bachelor and Master degree Human Movement Sciences, VU Amsterdam
2010 – 2012: Master degree Epidemiology VU Amsterdam
2008 –2009: Junior researcher ErasmusMC, Psychiatry
2009 – 2013: PhD Tilburg University - Information provision and patient reported outcomes in cancer survivors: with a special focus on thyroid cancer
2013-2015: Postdoctoral researcher Tilburg University, Medical and Clinical Psychology
2013-2015: Research Liaison Officer – TweeSteden Hospital
2015-2017: Postdoctoral research fellow Dutch Cancer Society Radboudumc, Medical Psychology
2016: senior researcher University of Michigan, USA
2017 – current: Staff scientist Institute of Cancer Research / Royal Marsden Hospital, London, UK
2018 – current: Associate Group Leader Netherlands Cancer Institute – Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital

Additional activities

Member of European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) – Quality of Life Group (QLG; 2013-present).
Member of Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) – Soft Tissue and Bone Sarcoma Group (STBSG; 2017-present) and chairman Quality of Life subcommittee
Executive Board Member of EORTC QLG – New Development Officer (2018-2021) and Treasurer (2021-present)
Associate Editor of Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
Associate Editor of Cancer Survivorship Research & Care
Member grant evaluation committee French National Cancer Institute
Member VENI grant evaluation committee for the Dutch Scientific Council (NWO-ZonMW)
Member SPACE4AYA congress committee

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