Prof. Anne Marie Kuijpers-Jagtman, D.D.S., Ph.D.

Anne Marie Kuijpers-Jagtman has been Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Orthodontics and Craniofacial Biology at the Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, since 1995. She is also the head of the Cleft Palate Craniofacial Unit of the University Medical Centre.Professor Kuijpers-Jagtman is a Past-President of the European Orthodontic Society, a former President of the Dutch Society for the Study of Orthodontics and also of the Dutch Cleft Palate Craniofacial Association. At present she is Councillor of the World Federation of Orthodontists (WFO). She is the chairing the European Orthodontic Teachers Forum and she serves as the President of the Network for Erasmus Based European Orthodontic Programmes (NEBEOP).

In 2002 she was honoured with the Fellowship in Dental Surgery by Election of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and in 2004 she received the Cesare Luzi Memorial Award of SIDO in Italy. She was awarded Knight in the Order of Orange- Nassau (Royal Honour of Her Majesty the Queen) for services to cleft lip and palate in 2007. In 2009 and 2011 her group received the Samuel Berkowitz Award of the American Cleft Palate Craniofacial Association for the best publication on long-term results of cleft lip and palate treatment. In 2010 she was awarded the title of Principal Lecturer of the UMC St Radboud. Professor Kuijpers-Jagtman is Editor-in-Chief of Orthodontics and Craniofacial Research, which is the journal with the highest impact factor in orthodontics. She is serving on the editorial board of several other international journals including Ortodoncie. She has (co)authored over 250 publications in Medline on her main topics of interest, which are 3D-imaging in orthodontics, cleft lip and palate, the biological background of orthodontics, and evidence based orthodontic therapy. She has lectured extensively on these topics in 35 countries around the globe.