Irene M. J. Mathijssen MD, PhD, MBA-H

Prof. dr. Irene M. J. Mathijssen is a Head of Plastic Surgery at Erasmus MC. Currently working as Chair of the 24 coordinators of the European Reference Networks (ERNs) and ERN Coordinator of ERN-CRANIO on Rare Craniofacial Anomalies, involving 29 European hospitals, Irene M.J. Mathijssen is a professor by background who specialized in craniofacial anomalies and published over 140 peer-reviewed papers. Since Dec. 2016, she has served as Head of the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery at Erasmus University Medical Center (Erasmus MC) in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Irene is also the Secretary-Treasurer of the International Society of Craniofacial Surgery (ISCFS) from 2013 to the present, and the President's Committee for the development of a national guideline on craniosynostosis in 2008, 2010, and currently. Before Joining the ERNs in 2016, Irene worked for 7 years as President at the Dutch Society for Plastic Surgery from 2006 to 2012.