Monique van Bruggen-Rufi
Monique van Bruggen-Rufi (Netherlands) graduated as a music therapist in 2006 after a 20-year-long career as surgical nurse and physician’s assistant. Next, she was trained by Henk Smeijsters and earned her Master’s degree in Music Therapy in 2010.
In 2012 she started as a PhD-candidate at the Leiden University Medical Center in Leiden with Prof. Dr. Raymund Roos, Head of the Neurology Dept., specialized in Huntington’s Disease and other movement disorders. She earned her PhD in 2017. Monique is a lecturer and Program-coordinator at the (Pre)master's course Music Therapy at ArtEZ. She is a clinician, working as a music therapist with cognitive impaired, traumatized adolescents, as well as with elderly suffering from dementia and psychiatric disorders. She also works with traumatized elderly from the former Dutch Indies She is a senior researcher at a clinic for people suffering from Korsakov’s syndrome.