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Keynote & Invited Speakers
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Mr Rick Aylett
Consultant, the Australian Football League
Rick Aylett is currently a consultant to the Australian Football League and prior to this he was Chief Executive Officer of the North Melbourne Football Club. A Board Member of William Angliss Institute, Rick has held executive and management positions throughout Australia and Asia in a hospitality career spanning 30 years. As Managing Director, Rick established Peter Rowland Major Events which grew into a respected market leader. Under Rick’s leadership the organisation secured the inaugural Melbourne Formula 1 Grand Prix, Melbourne Cup Carnival, Kooyong Tennis Classic, Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix and International Airshow. Rick currently consults to the AFL with his focus on leading the implementation of the AFL and Cricket Australia Synthetic Turf Program and has been involved in this project from the outset.
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Dr Carolyn Broderick
“Epiphyses and Apophyses – creating problems in active children”
Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales
Carolyn Broderick is a staff specialist in Paediatric Sports Medicine, Children’s Hospital at Westmead; the director of sports medicine programs at the University of New South Wales; deputy medical director at the NSW Institute of Sport; the team physician of the Australian Federation Cup Tennis Team and was previously the team physician to the Australian Olympic Team.
Carolyn's current research interests include sports injury surveillance in children and exercise prescription for children with chronic disease.
Carolyn holds a current NHMRC grant for a project assessing the transient increase in risk of bleeding associated with exercise in children with haemophilia.
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Associate Professor David Dunstan
“Physical activity in the management of type 2 diabetes – the evidence and the challenges that remain”
Head, Physical Activity & VicHealth Research Fellow, Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Australia
David Dunstan is a VicHealth Public Health Research Fellow and is the Head of the Physical Activity laboratory in the Division of Metabolism and Obesity at the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute. His research focuses on the role of physical activity and sedentary behavior in the prevention and management of type 2 diabetes and obesity. His research program has attracted considerable external funding from the NHMRC, VicHealth and the National Heart Foundation and he has been an invited speaker at international conferences, including the American Diabetes Association. In 2006 he was awarded a VicHealth Public Health Fellowship to further consolidate his physical activity research program into the role of sedentary behaviour in chronic disease. Another significant achievement has been his involvement as a co-investigator and the National Project Manager on the landmark diabetes prevalence study (Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle Study – AusDiab) from 1997-2000 involving 11,247 participants. In addition to having the responsibility for the planning and day to day management of this large project, A/Prof Dunstan led and coordinated a collaboration consisting of key researchers in the field of physical activity, sedentary behaviour and health to analyse the lifestyle data collected from this study. He is also the creator of the purposefully developed physical activity program titled ‘Lift for Life®’, which has been designed to facilitate widespread uptake of strength training in community facilities such as gyms and community health centres. In 2005, this innovation was funded by the Department of Health and Ageing to support the development and national implementation of the program over a 4 year period. In 2007, he was awarded a prestigious young Tall Poppy Science award (Victoria) from the Australian Institute of Policy and Science which recognizes the achievements of Australia’s outstanding young scientific researchers.
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Assistant Professor Carolyn Emery
“The effectiveness of neuromuscular training in the prevention of injuries in youth: Do we have enough evidence? Where do we go from here?”
“The risk of injury associated with body checking in Canadian youth ice hockey.”
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology and Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary
Carolyn Emery is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary. She is an Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Population Health Investigator and a Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator. Carolyn completed her PhD studies in Epidemiology from the Department of Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Alberta. Her MSc was also in Epidemiology from the University of Calgary (1998). She is a graduate of Queen's University, Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences in 1988 (BScPT). Carolyn has 20 years of clinical experience including expertise in paediatric orthopaedics and sport medicine. She has been part of the University of Calgary Sport Medicine Team for 14 years. Her research focuses primarily on injury prevention in sport, with a particular interest in the child and adolescent population. She has been involved in the development of the Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre at the University of Calgary since 2003. The primary focus of Carolyn’s research program is the identification of risk factors for injury and evaluation of prevention strategies to reduce the risk of injury in youth sport. Methodological contributions as an epidemiologist relate to community cluster randomized controlled trials and a recursive model for examining risk of injury in sport. Carolyn is the Canadian Associate Editor for the North American Journal of Sports Physical Therapy. Carolyn is currently the Canadian Physiotherapy Association Division Research Liaison and Chair of the National Physiotherapy Research Advisory Consortium.
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Plenary Session NPAC Keynote Speaker
Mr Mark Fenton
“Getting sticky: the challenge of creating community physical activity interventions that stick”
Asics Sponsored Speaker
National Center for Bicycling and Walking & the University of North Carolina’s Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center
Mark Fenton is a contributing editor for Health magazine, was host of the America’s Walking series on PBS television, and is author of numerous books including Pedometer Walking (Lyons press, 2006) and The Complete Guide to Walking for Health, Weight Loss, and Fitness (Lyons, revised edition 2008). He’s a facilitator with the Walkable Community Workshop series of the National Center for Bicycling and Walking and a Safe Routes to School national program developer and instructor for the University of North Carolina’s Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center.
Mark was a member of the United States national racewalking team from 1986 to 1991, and competed in the 1984 and 1988 Olympic Trials in the 50-kilometer (31-mile) racewalk. He studied biomechanics at the Massachusetts Institute Technology, where he earned BS and MS degrees in engineering, and was later a researcher at the US Olympic Training Center’s Sports Science Laboratory in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and the manager in Reebok’s Human Performance Laboratory. Mark has numerous research publications related to exercise science and activity promotion, as well as on community planning and design to promote physical activity and health. He is a vocal pedestrian and bicycle advocate and recognized authority on public health issues and the need for community, environmental, and public-policy initiatives to encourage more walking and bicycling. His expertise includes planning policies and engineering approaches to create active living environments, and he serves on his local planning board. Mark remains an avid walker and hiker (as well as cyclist and kayaker) all of which he does most often with his wife and two children where they live, near Boston, Massachusetts.
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Refshauge Lecturer
Professor Caroline Finch
“Sports injury prevention - no longer lost in translation”
Australian Sports Medicine Federation Fellows Sponsored Speaker
NHMRC Principal Research Fellow, School of Human Movement and Sport Sciences, University of Ballarat
Caroline Finch is Research Professor of Human Movement Science and a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Principal Research Fellow. She is widely regarded both internationally and nationally as Australia’s leading sports/physical activity injury epidemiologist. Her research has been published in over 250 peer review journals, research reports and other publications. Her broad research program is in the population health area of injury prevention and safety promotion with the primary context of application on sports and physical activity related injury and the use of exercise to prevent other injuries. Her injury research focuses on methodological advances in sports injury surveillance and injury data coding; evaluations of the effectiveness of injury prevention measures; assessing attitudinal and behavioural barriers towards the uptake of safety measures; and the translation of research evidence into policy and practice. Her research has been funded by grants from the National Health National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Australian Research Council (ARC) and other competitive and government sources. She provides sports safety advice to bodies such as the Australian Government, Sport and Recreation Victoria, the NSW Sporting Injuries Committee, Sports Medicine Australia and the Victorian Smartplay Program.
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Dr Paul Fleming
Asics Sponsored Speaker
Associate Professor, Department of Civil and Building Engineering, Loughborough University, United Kingdom
Paul Fleming is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at Loughborough University, and has a research portfolio primarily in the areas of geomaterials in transport infrastructure & built environment and sports surfaces & interactions, the latter delivered through the recently opened Loughborough Sorts Technology Institute. He has extensive experience in experimental research methodologies, at laboratory and field scale. He is a member of several related committees, national and international, and is the manager and founder of the SportSURF network which has over 300 members worldwide - set up to provide a unique forum for sport surface related research and practice, and founded the successful inaugural International Conference on Sport Surfaces (STARSS 2007, another planned for 2010). He has published over 90 refereed academic papers worldwide, and generated income from many sources of funding, much of it supported by industry. Current and recent work on sport surface research includes: measuring player perceptions; contrasting player experience to mechanical test methods; simplified assessment test methods; modelling the behaviour of shockpads in surface systems; mechanisms of traction resistance; sport movement player surface loading; in-shoe pressure measurement systems; sustainable drainage systems; effects of maintenance on carpet life; and many more.
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Mr Simon Gianotti
Injury Prevention Team Leader, Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC), New Zealand
Simon Gianotti is a sport injury prevention practitioner from New Zealand. For the last seven years he has been working with sports organisations to develop and implement community prevention programmes on a national scale. These sports include rugby union, rugby league, soccer (football) and netball. In addition he has developed successful prevention initiatives to reduce specific injuries such as concussion, strains and sprains. Simon’s recent work has been developing links between the promotion of physical activity (particularly walking, running and cycling) and sports injury prevention within the same programme. His work with community sports injury prevention is the basis for his Ph.D. Simon has had a number of journal articles published on community sport injury prevention.
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Professor Marc Hamilton
“Inactivity Physiology: a new paradigm for exercise science”
Queensland Government Sponsored Speaker
Professor, Pennington Biomedical Research Center
Marc Hamilton, Ph.D., is a Professor at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana. His laboratory performs translational research integrating molecular mechanisms with pragmatic lifestyle issues, especially studies seeking to understand the causal mechanisms linking sitting too much with vascular and metabolic disease risk factors.
Dr. Hamilton studies the metabolic effects of physical inactivity. The interest in “inactivity physiology” is bringing a new appreciation of the role of low energy expenditure and sitting in obesity, metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, some cancers, and cardiovascular disease. He has argued that sitting too much is not the same as exercising too little. He will summarize the evidence leading to the emerging new discipline of 'inactivity physiology'. While there are entire textbooks and college degree programs in exercise physiology, medical science is only now starting to learn what happens to people when they are performing the ubiquitous behaviors of physical inactivity, primarily sitting.
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Professor Steve Harridge
“Blood sweat and satellite cells. Adaptability of the aged muscle to overload”
Professor of Human and Applied Physiology, King’s College London
Steve Harridge is currently Professor of Human and Applied Physiology at King’s College London. He is physiologist with a wide ranging (genes to function) research interest in human skeletal muscle function and plasticity, with a particular focus on ageing muscle. Prior to his appointment at King’s he spent a number of years at University College London, the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and the Copenhagen Muscle Research, Denmark.
Steve is Convenor of the Human Physiology Special Interest Group of The Physiological Society and a member of the Scientific Committee of the European College of Sports Science. He is on the Editorial Board of Experimental Physiology and the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports. In addition to his research he is Director of the MSc programme in Human and Applied Physiology.
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Dr Karl Landorf
"Do foot orthoses prevent injury? A systematic review"
"What do we really know about plantar heel pain / plantar fasciitis?"
Senior Lecturer and Research Coordinator, La Trobe University
Karl Landorf is currently a Senior Lecturer and Research Coordinator at La Trobe University. He is also Leader of the Foot and Ankle Group in the Musculoskeletal Research Centre at La Trobe and is Deputy-Editor of the new free-access online journal, the Journal of Foot and Ankle Research.
In 2004 Karl completed his PhD where he investigated foot orthoses for the treatment of plantar fasciitis. During this time he developed a keen interest in clinical trial methodology and health outcome measurement. Karl’s main research focus is now the evaluation of the effectiveness of musculoskeletal interventions and his primary teaching is in the area of diagnostic imaging of the foot and ankle. His current research projects include evaluations of interventions for plantar heel pain, osteoarthritis in the foot, and painful plantar callus. In addition, he is involved in investigations relating to health outcome assessment instruments used in podiatry, muscle activity in the lower extremity, and the use of X-ray measurement for foot abnormalities. Karl is also actively involved in compiling systematic reviews that summarise the evidence relating to interventions used in podiatry.
Karl has been an invited or keynote speaker at many national and international conferences, including Australia, New Zealand, England, Ireland and the United States. He is widely published with 40 scientific articles in international peer-reviewed podiatry and medical journals. In addition, he has had extensive experience with peer-review of scientific information, having been a journal manuscript reviewer for 10 international journals. Finally, Karl is the podiatry profession’s representative on the Advisory Board of the Cochrane Collaboration’s Musculoskeletal Group and is a Trustee of the Australian Podiatry Education and Research Foundation.
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Dr Michael Lloyd
"The knee bone's connected to the head bone - the role of sport psychology within a multidisciplinary sports medicine practice."
Assistant Sport Psychology Network Coordinator, Queensland Academy of Sport
Sport Psychology Consultant / Service Provider, Australian Institute of Sport
Michael Lloyd is a Performance Psychology Consultant for the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) and provides Performance Psychology services to AIS Men’s & Women’s Cricket, Squash, and Track Cycling. Michael is based in Queensland and also provides Performance Psychology services to the Cricket Australia Centre of Excellence (CACE), and has been a preferred Sport Psychology service provider for the Queensland Academy of Sport (QAS) since 1998, and the Assistant Sport Psychology Coordinator since 2006. He has recently completed his Professional Doctorate in Psychology (Sport & Exercise), while also managing a private psychological consultancy in a sports medicine and physiotherapy clinic on the Gold Coast. As a member of the multi-disciplinary sports medicine clinic his work encompasses a wide variety issues including, performance enhancement, pain management, treatment adherence, and other related personal counselling.
Michael has a background in Rugby Union, Surf Lifesaving, Martial Arts and Triathlon, and has provided services to these sports as well as Swimming, Netball, Rowing and Men’s & Women’s Water Polo at a state and national level. He has fulfilled roles of Sport Psychology Consultant/ Assistant Manager at various State Titles, Age Nationals, Open Nationals, Olympic Trials, and World Championships. Michael has done extensive research into areas such as performance routines, motivation, pre-competition emotions and arousal, and has presented his research findings both nationally and internationally.
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Professor Thomas McKenzie
"Seeing is Believing: Using Systematic Observation to Assess Physical Activity and its Contexts"
Emeritus Professor, Exercise and Nutritional Sciences, San Diego State University, USA
Thom McKenzie is Emeritus Professor of Exercise and Nutritional Sciences at San Diego State University and former Adjunct Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego. He is a former school physical education and health teacher, coach, and administrator, and has authored or co-authored over 150 scientific papers. He has been an investigator on 13 multidisciplinary research projects supported by the National Institutes of Health. He is currently Co-Principal Investigator on an obesity prevention program in San Diego and an investigator on four studies of physical activity in parks and recreation centers across USA.
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Dr Lyle Micheli
“Back Pain in Young Athletes”
“ACL Complex Injuries in Young Athletes”
Director, Division of Sports Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston
Clinical Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Lyle J. Micheli, M.D., is director of the Division of Sports Medicine at Children's Hospital Boston and Clinical Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts and in 2005 was named the O’Donnell Family Professor of Orthopaedic Sports Medicine at Children's Hospital Boston. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College in 1962 and his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1966.
He is a past president of the American College of Sports Medicine (president 1989-1990), having also served on the Board of this organization and as Vice-President of Medicine. Since 1988, Dr. Micheli has represented the American College of Sports Medicine in the selection process of the Sport Science Award of the International Olympic Committee President. He served as Chairperson of the Massachusetts Governor's Committee on Physical Fitness and Sports from 1991 - 2004. In 1998, he was elected to the Executive Board of the International Federation of Sports Medicine (FIMS), where he previously served on the Education Commission since 1990 and as its chairperson from 1995 to 1998. In 2002, Dr. Micheli was elected Vice-President of FIMS.
In November of 2005, Dr. Micheli, was invited by the International Olympic Committee’s Medical Commission to IOC Headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland to co-chair and assist in the writing of an IOC Consensus Statement on the Training of the Elite Child Athlete.
Dr. Micheli has been the Attending Physician for the Boston Ballet since 1977 and is Medical Consultant to the Boston Ballet School. In 1984, he was appointed to the Board of Directors of the United States Rugby Football Foundation. In 2001, Dr. Micheli was elected Chairman of the USA Rugby Medical and Risk Management Committee. In 2002, Dr. Micheli was elected to the Advisory Board of the Bay State Games.
His present research activities are focused on the prevention of sports injuries in children, including assessment of risk factors and injury occurrence, as well as assessment of dysfunctions of the shoulder in children and young adults.
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Plenary Session ACSMS Keynote Speaker
Dr Lorimer Moseley
"Pain. Do you get it?"
Queensland Government Sponsored Speaker
Senior Research Fellow, Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Sydney, Australia
Lorimer Moseley is a scientist and a clinician. He completed his doctorate at the Pain Management Research Institute, University of Sydney, and post-doctoral fellowships at the University of Queensland & The University of Sydney. He was the first physiotherapist to be appointed Nuffield Medical Research Fellow at Oxford University, where he was also Senior Fellow of the GAMFI Project, both within the Department of Anatomy, Physiology & Genetics. His work in understanding complex pain disorders, and in developing and testing novel strategies to manage them, has received world-wide recognition. He has written two books, several book chapters and over 60 papers in top-flight journals. His work has been the focus of numerous popular press articles in 15 countries. In 2007, he was judged to be the outstanding mid-career clinical scientist working in a pain-related field by the International Association for the Study of Pain. He now lives in Sydney, where he is NHMRC Senior Research Fellow at the Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, Randwick.
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Ms Loretta O'Sullivan
“The adolescent knee: how is it different from that of children and adults - a sports physiotherapy perspective.”
Owner, Twelve9teen Sports Physiotherapy
Loretta O’Sullivan is a specialist sports physiotherapist with a sub-speciality of adolescents in sport and is a fellow of the Australian College of Physiotherapists. Loretta is the owner of twelve9teen sports physiotherapy – a sports physiotherapy clinic totally dedicated to active teenagers – the only such clinic in Australia.
Doctoral Candidate – Clinical Physiotherapy at University of Melbourne, the course work component has focussed on advanced practice physiotherapy and adolescents in sport, the research component is looking at the quality of single leg task performance in teenage girls with and without patellofemoral pain.
Loretta is a team sports physiotherapist for Gregory Terrace 1st XV Rugby Union and sports medicine coordinator for the Terrace Rugby Development Program. She is a specialist physiotherapist in the Paediatric / Adolescent Musculoskeletal Orthopaedic Screening Clinics at Queensland Children’s Hospital Collaborative and has worked in private practice in Toowoomba, London and Brisbane since 1994.
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Dr Chris Rissel
"More people cycling - personal and policy paths forward."
Director, Health Promotion Service, Sydney South West Area Health Service
Associate Professor, School of Public Health, University of Sydney
Chris Rissel is Director of the Health Promotion Service, Sydney South West Area Health Service, and for the last six years has been Editor-in-Chief of the Health Promotion Journal of Australia. He has a strong record of published research with over 200 peer-reviewed publications and dozens of other reports and papers. He has worked in the areas of migrant health, tobacco control, sexual health, and is currently active in physical activity and active travel research, with a number of large intervention studies focused on cycling and walking. He is one of the authors of the recently launched national report ‘Cycling: Getting Australia Moving - Barriers, facilitators and interventions to get more Australians physically active through cycling.'
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Dr Mark Tarnopolsky
“Sex differences in exercise metabolism and nutritional implications.”
“Exercise and ageing - benefits of different types of exercise”
Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, Hamilton Hospitals Assessment Center Endowed Chair in Neuromuscular Disorders, Director of Neuromuscular and Neurometabolic Clinic, McMaster University Medical Center, Hamilton, Ontario
Mark Tarnopolsky, is the clinical and research director of the Corkins/Lammert Family Neuromuscular and Neurometabolic Clinic at McMaster University. He holds a Hamilton Regional Assessment Center endowed chair in Neuromuscular Disorders, and is a Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine. His research focuses on nutritional, exercise and pharmacological therapies for neurometabolic (primarily mitochondrial) and neuromuscular disorders, and aging. In addition, he studies the physiological and molecular aspects of mitochondrial adaptation to exercise, aging and the metabolic syndrome. His laboratory has been also been very interested in understanding sex differences in muscle damage and in response to endurance exercise and the role of 17-B-estradiol. He has authored or coauthored more than 200 scientific articles. He has also lectured widely on neurology (neuromuscular and neurometabolic disorders), aging, nutrition and exercise physiology. He is on the editorial board of Muscle & Nerve, Clinical Journal of Neuromuscular Disorders, Mitochondrion and is an Associate Editor for Medicine and Science in Sorts and Exercise. He has been on Grant Selection Committees for NSERC (Animal Biology, 2003-2006, Chair, 2006), CIHR Biology of Aging Committee (2006), and Chair of the Emerging Team Grant: Mobility in Aging (2007). His wife, Dr. Jacqueline Bourgeois is a pediatric pathologist and collaborates with his team on histology projects and he has three daughters (Stephanie, 23 y, medical resident; Alanna, 21 y, law student; and Milla, 8 y, grade 3). He has raced nationally and internationally in adventure racing (2000 – 2005), represented Canada at the World Championships in Winter Triathlon (2006) and in Ski-Orienteering (1995) and won the Ontario Trail running series in 2004, 2005, 2006.
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Dr Henry Tsao
Post-doctoral Researcher, Centre of Clinical Research Excellence in Spinal Pain, Injury and Health, The University of Queensland
Henry is a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre of Clinical Research Excellence in Spinal Pain, Injury and Health at The University of Queensland. His research primarily aims to investigate neural changes associated with musculoskeletal pain and injury, and to unravel the mechanisms that underlie recovery. Henry is also a qualified Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist and has worked extensively in clinical practice and clinical education of physiotherapy students. He serves on the Queensland chapter of Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Australia and acts as a clinical Physiotherapy license examiner for the Australian Physiotherapy Council.
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Plenary Session NSIPC Keynote Speaker
Professor Willem van Mechelen
“Sports injury prevention: the proof of the pudding is in the eating.”
Brisbane City Council Sponsored Speaker
Head Department of Public and Occupational Health, Co-director EMGO Institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam
Willem van Mechelen, MD, PhD, FACSM, FECSS (1952) is employed by the VU University Medical Centre in Amsterdam as a full professor of Occupational and Sports Medicine. In this capacity he is the head of the Department of Public and Occupational Health (80 fte), co-director of the EMGO Institute (200 fte), vice-dean of the Netherlands School of Public and Occupational Health and director of Research Centre Body@Work TNO VUmc. He leads a group of about 40 persons who conduct primary care research in the area of work, physical activity, sport and health. Willem van Mechelen is a board certified occupational physician, epidemiologist and human movement scientist.
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Dr Evert Verhagen
“Injury prevention in youth; are we up for the task?”
“Why Dutchmen like to prevent ankle sprains”
Senior Researcher, Department of Public and Occupational Health, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam
Evert Verhagen, PhD (1976) is a senior researcher of the department of Public and Occupational Health at the VU University Medical Centre in Amsterdam. He is a board certified occupational epidemiologist and human movement scientist. Evert received his PhD in 2004 after emphasising the preventive effect balance training has against ankle sprains. As a former Track & Field athlete who had to cease participating at the elite level on the age of 17 due to an injury, he has a natural interest in sports and physical activity injury prevention. He gained his mark for his work on the prevention of ankle sprains, but also has a strong focus on safety and injury prevention in youth sports and physical activity, as well as the uptake of the interventions within a broad sporting population.
Evert was the project-leader of the recently completed the 2BFit (Balance Board Functional instability training) study on the preventive effect of proprioceptive training given after usual care. Results of this very effective intervention have been accepted for publication in the British Medical Journal. He is also the instigator of the effective iPlay study (Injury Prevention Lessons Affecting Youngsters). The iPlay study evaluated a school-based intervention program aimed at preventing sports and physical activity injuries in children aged 10-12. Evert is a also current member of various Dutch ‘expert’ groups within the field of sports medicine, including the ‘projectgroup National Sports Database’, ‘the National Sports Injury Registration Platform’, and ‘the National Sports Injury Prevention Platform’. |
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