Research interests

• Clinical studies on addiction disorders in adolescence 

• Psychiatric comorbidities and neurobiological mechanism in addiction disorders

• Prevention and intervention

Education

5/2019 - 7/2024  MD-PhD program: Master of Science in Medicine, Faculty of Medical Science, University of Groningen, Groningen, combined with a PhD in “The impact of visualization technology in flexible laryngoscopy on the detection of pharyngeal and laryngeal lesions in daily clinical practice” at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen

9/2018 – 2/2019  Research Internship for Master thesis in Medicine, Department of Otorhinolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen

9/2017 – 1/2018  Minor Future Planet Innovation, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Groningen, Groningen

9/2015 – 9/2018  Bachelor of Science in Medicine, Faculty of Medical Science, University of Groningen, Groningen

Employment

Since 11/2024  Resident and postdoc in children and adolescent psychiatry at the University Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Klinikum Oldenburg AöR

5/2019 - 7/2024  PhD researcher at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen

9/2018 – 7/2022  Tutor for first- and second-year medical students, University of Groningen, Groningen

Grants and awards

7/2024  FMUSP (Medicine) Winter Schools scholarship, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Groningen

5/2019 MD/PhD  Scholarship, also facilitating travel grants to conferences, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Groningen

5 representative publications

Scholman C, Westra JM, Zwakenberg MA, Dikkers FG, Halmos GB, Wedman J, Wachters JE, van der Laan BFAM, Plaat BEC. Differences in the diagnostic value between fiberoptic and high definition laryngoscopy for the characterisation of pharyngeal and laryngeal lesions: A multi-observer paired analysis of videos. Clin Otolaryngol. 2020 Jan;45(1):119-125. doi: 10.1111/coa.13476. 

Scholman C, Westra JM, Zwakenberg MA, Dikkers FG, Halmos GB, Wedman J, Wachters JE, van der Laan BFAM, Plaat BEC. High-definition videolaryngoscopy is superior to fiberoptic laryngoscopy: a 111 multi-observer study. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2021 Jun;278(6):1927-1932. doi: 10.1007/s00405-021-06673-0. 

Scholman C, Zwakenberg MA, Wedman J, Wachters JE, Halmos GB, van der Laan BFAM, Plaat BEC. The influence of clinical experience on reliable evaluation of pharyngeal and laryngeal lesions: comparison of high-definition laryngoscopy using narrow band imaging with fibre-optic laryngoscopy. J Laryngol Otol. 2024 Apr;138(4):425-430. doi: 10.1017/S0022215123001846. 

Westra JM, Scholman C, Krijnen HK, Zwakenberg MA, van der Vegt B, Schoonbeek RC, Wedman J, Wegner I, Halmos GB, Plaat BEC. Diagnosis of laryngopharyngeal carcinoma through office-based flexible laryngoscopy as a reliable alternative for biopsies under general anesthesia: Faster diagnostics with equal oncological outcome. Am J Otolaryngol. 2024 Sep-Oct;45(5):104424. doi: 10.1016/j.amjoto.2024.104424. 

ORCID:  Constanze Scholman (0000-0001-8717-0472) - ORCID

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