Research areas

  • R Medicine (General) - Medical Communication, Trust, Uncertainty, Medical Psychology, Patient-provider communication

Research interests

Marij Hillen is an assistant professor, Principal Educator, and VENI-recipient at Amsterdam UMC. She researches provider-patient interaction with the aim to enhance complex communication and the relation between patients and their physicians. The focus of her research line is on patient-physician trust and uncertainty in medicine.

Marij obtained over €2.000.000,- in research grants, of which €600.000,- through personal fellowships. She authored over 60 international peer-reviewed publications. She has successfully supervised and currently supervises multiple PhD, masters’ and bachelors’ students. Additionally, she heads and/or contributes to leading national and international professional associations within her research field. Marij is associate editor for Patient Education and Counseling, journal of the International Association for Communication in Healthcare. 

specialisation

Medical Psychology / Medical communication

Research output

  1. Assessment of Challenges Encountered by Dutch Oncologists When Patients Ask for Second Opinions

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/Letter to the editor › Academic

  2. How can communication by oncologists enhance patients' trust? An experimental study

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

  3. A scoping review of practice recommendations for clinicians’ communication of uncertainty

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › Academic › peer-review

  4. How Physicians Discuss Uncertainty With Parents in Intensive Care Units

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

  5. Tolerance of uncertainty: Conceptual analysis, integrative model, and implications for healthcare

    Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › Academic › peer-review

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Projects

  1. Effects of neurologists' communication about a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease on patients' well-being. A prospective mixed-methods study

    Project: Research

  2. Navigating uncertainty in DSD and transgender care

    Project: Research

  3. The paradox of choice: reducing the burden of shared decision making for cancer patients

    Project: Research

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