Cum laude for Floor van den Brand
On 21 October Floor van den Brand (RL Optimising Patient Care) obtained her PhD with the Cum Laude predicate. She studied the effects of financial incentives for smoking cessation. Before the defense a symposium took place. Several national and international experts in the field of smoking cessation presented their research.
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