mw. Dr. L. (Linetta) B. Koppert MD, PhD

Mrs. L.B. (Linetta) Koppert, MD PhD MSc (Rotterdam, 1976) studied Medicine at the Rotterdam Erasmus University and received her medical degree in 2001 (cum laude). Subsequently, she conducted clinical research at the Erasmus MC that resulted in her thesis in 2006. She started her surgical training in 2004 (Reinier de Graaf Gasthuis Delft and Erasmus MC, Rotterdam) and her fellowship oncological surgery in 2011 (Daniel den Hoed Cancer Center) with special focus on diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer and thyroid cancer. In 2009 she became a clinical epidemiologist. From April 2012 she is consultant surgical oncologist breast and thyroid cancer at the Erasmus MC. Besides clinical work she heads the Academic Breast Cancer Center, (co)authored >150 peer-reviewed publications and supervises PhD students. Her main research topics concern quality of breast cancer surgery and development of value based breast cancer care especially in young breast cancer patients. Breast cancer patients