Mirjam Sprangers#
| Membership Number: | 6640 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLINICAL & VETERINARY SCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | THE NETHERLANDS |
| Homepage(s): | https://researchinformation.amsterdamumc.org/en/persons/mirjam-a-g-sprangers |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-3728-6933 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2004 - present Full Professor, Deputy Head of Department (until 2012), Research Coordinator (until 2015), Department of Medical Psychology, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, University of Amsterdam (called Academic Medical Center until 2018), Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- 2003 - 2018 Foreign Adjunct Professor, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden (affiliations with: Department of Nursing (2003 - 2005), Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society (2006-2007), Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (2008-2018))
- 1995 - 2004 Associate Professor, Deputy Head of Department, Research Coordinator, Department of Medical Psychology, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam
- 1989 - 1995 Research Psychologist (Senior Fellow since 1990), Division of Psychosocial Research and Epidemiology, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam
- 1984 - 1988 Research Associate, Department of Psychological Methods, Faculty of Psychology, University of Amsterdam
Fields of Scholarship
- Patient reported outcomes
- Psycho-oncology
- Questionnaire development and validation
- Response shift (i.e., shifts in patients' perspectives over time)
- Quality of life
- Patient-reported outcome measures
Honours and Awards
- 2018 - present Honorary Member of the International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL)
- 2014 The International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL) President’s Award for the contribution to the field of quality of life research
- 2009 - 2012: Invited Research Collaborator, Department of Health Sciences Research, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, US
- 1990 - 1998 Personal Senior Fellowship for an 8-year research program on "Quality of life assessment in clinical oncology research” of the Dutch Cancer Society
- 1981 - 1984 Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in psychology cum laude
