Hedwig van der Meer

Hedwig van der Meer is a Lecturer at the Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (Orofacial Pain and Dysfunction department). She holds a PhD in Orofacial Pain, Temporomandibular Disorders, and Headaches from the University of Amsterdam (2022). She also works at ZZPér (Zeist) and SOMT Univeristy of Physiotherapy (Amersfoort) as a part of her ancillary activities.

Her research focuses on Orofacial Pain, Temporomandibular Disorders, Headaches, and the application of Telehealth and e-Health technologies in pain management. Key areas include migraine, tension headaches, and patient-centered interventions. Recent work explores the efficacy of remote physiotherapy and e-Health tools for musculoskeletal and orofacial pain.

Her recent publications emphasize translational research, including cross-cultural adaptations of screening tools, telehealth-based studies on pain confounders, and mixed-methods analyses of patient-therapist perspectives on e-Health. She contributes to courses like Afwijkingen van het kaakgewricht en speekselklieren.

No scientific awards are explicitly mentioned, but her work has been widely shared on platforms like Mendeley. Her research also involves collaborations on datasets, such as a study on manual therapy for tension-type headaches.