Honours and awards


  • IMG_0888 Officer in the Order of Oranje-Nassau, Amsterdam, May 27, 2011
  • IMG_0909 The honorary Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Microscope of the Netherlands Cancer Institute-Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital, Amsterdam, May 27, 2011
  • KNO medal Honorary medal of the Netherlands Society of Otorhinolaryngology and Cervico-Facial Surgery, Nieuwegein, April 7, 2011
  • Visiting Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, March 23, 2011
  • Honorary Member of the South African Society of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery (Die Suid Afrikaanse Vereniging vir Otorhinolaringologie Kop en Nek Chirurgie), October 2010
  • 11th Honorary Medal of the Dutch Head and Neck Society (founded in 1984); Maastricht, October 15, 2010 (past recipients: 1994 Prof Dr PC de Jong and prof Dr EA van Slooten; 1999 Prof Dr P van den Broek and Prof Dr J Oldhoff; 2002 Prof Dr GB Snow and prof Dr A Verwey; 2009 Prof Dr GJ Hordijk, Dr PP Knegt, Prof Dr I van der Waal; 2010 Dr MF de Boer en Prof Dr FJM Hilgers)
  • 'Visiting Professor' Department of Otolarynglogy-Head Neck Surgery, University Hospital Stanford, April 2010
  • 2nd CARF Oration, Mumbai, India, October 6, 2007 (Cancer Aid & Research Foundation)
  • Honorary Corresponding Membership of the German Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Plastische und Wiederherstellungschirurgie; DGPW, Präsident in 2005 Prof. Dr. H. Maier), Ulm, October 13, 2005
  • 'Visiting Professor' Department of Otolaryngology-Head&Neck Surgery, University of Kentucky, Louisville, December 3, 2001
  • Third Loebell Lecturer, University of Munich 'Rechts der Isar', February 14, 2001
  • George Davey Howells Memorial Prize 1999 for `the most distinguished publication in Otolaryngology in the preceding 5 years' for: `Disease of the Head&Neck, Nose&Throat'; editors Andrew S Jones, David E Phillips, Frans JM Hilgers. Royal College of Medicin, Section Laryngology, Rhinology and Otology, November 3, 2000, London
  • 'Visiting Professor' Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York. September 29, 2000
  • Third Stel & Maran Foundation Lecturer: `Rehabilitation after total laryngectomy is more than voice alone'. London, January 19, 2000
  • Key-note Lecturer 'Composium for the 75th anniversary of IALP', Gothenburg, August 26-29, 1999
  • Honorary Member "Association des Rééducateurs des Mutilés de la Voix", Paris, France, 1993