Maaike van Gerwen, M.D., Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor and the Director of Research in the Department of Otolaryngology—Head and Neck Surgery. She is also affiliated with the Institute for Translational Epidemiology. She received her M.D. from Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and practiced as a physician in the Netherlands and France before joining the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai for a Ph.D. in Clinical Research. Her research interests include thyroid health and thyroid cancer—in particular, environmental exposures contributing to thyroid cancer risk, as well as patient-centered outcome research.