Babette Pluim

Staff

Prof Babette Pluim, MD, MPH, PhD, is a Consultant in Sports and Exercise Medicine and Chief Medical Adviser of the Royal Netherlands Lawn Tennis Association. She is Team Physician of the Dutch Davis Cup and Fed Cup teams and Tournament Physician at the ATP and WTA tournaments in ´s Hertogenbosch and Rotterdam (the Netherlands).

Prof Pluim is Extraordinary Professor in Sports Medicine at the University of Pretoria (South Africa), Editor Sports and Exercise Medicine of the British Journal of Sports Medicine and a member of the ITF (International Tennis Federation) Sports Science and Medicine Commission.

Her main research interests and topics are:

1. Epidemiology, Prevention and Treatment of Tennis Injuries

2. Health Benefits of Tennis

3. Sports Cardiology.

Ton Leenen

Junior Researcher

Ton Leenen (1990) holds a B.Sc. degree in Physiotherapy with special interests in orthopedics and (top)sports injuries from the HU University of Applied Sciences Utrecht and a M.Sc. degree in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Sciences (related to Human Movement Sciences) from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Ton is now a PhD student at the Vrije University Amsterdam conducting research on the topic’s injury prevention and return-to-sport in baseball and tennis. He is an active member of the Amsterdam Movement Sciences PhD Committee and the PhD Educational Committee of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Ton also holds the PhD chairmanship as a representative for the PhD’s of the Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences.

His main research topics are: 1. Prevention of sports and physical activity related injuries in baseball and tennis; and 2. Return-to-sport after sustaining a sports or physical activity related injury. He supervises several (inter)national Master students of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Delft University of Technology and Bachelor student’s physiotherapy of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, divided across these two topics. Within the department he fulfils teaching responsibilities for the faculty Human Movement Sciences.

Evert Verhagen

Chair

Evert Verhagen (1976) is a human movement scientist and epidemiologist who holds an University Research Chair on the topic of "Sports, Physical Activity & Health". He chairs the department's research theme 'Sports, Lifestyle and Health'. Evert is also the co-director of the Amsterdam Institute of Sports Sciences (www.aiss.nl), and chair of the Amsterdam Collaboration on Health and Safety in Sports; one of the 10 International Olympic Committee (IOC) Centers of Research Excellence for the Prevention of Injury and Promotion of Health in Athletes.

His main research topics are: 1. Prevention of sports and physical activity related injuries (including cost-effectiveness and implementation issues); and 2. Physical activity promotion integrated in everyday life. He supervises several (inter)national PhDs and post-docs, divided across these two topics. Within the department he fulfils teaching responsibilities for the faculties of Medicine, Human Movement Sciences and Health Sciences, next to individual supervision in research training.

If you want to know more about his research and publications, it might be worth to check out his Scopus or Orcid profile.

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  RT @footballmed: I’ll be at #isoK23! 🙌 retweet if YOU will be in London this May! #Iwillbethere #London2023 #footballmed https://t.co/FVvZIgd8Nt

  Apr 6, 2023, 11:05 AM
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  RT @BMJOpenSEM: 💥#QualitativeResearch on 11+ in 🇳🇿 football ‼️ 11+ is a validated #injury #prevention strategy. ⚽️ ‼️ Incorporatio… https://t.co/hK15JBUTDa

  Apr 6, 2023, 11:04 AM
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  RT @BMJOpenSEM: #OriginalResearch Does a user-guided graduated digital tool help with skills acquisition for movement ❓ 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️… https://t.co/F1KZfD6hzQ

  Apr 6, 2023, 11:03 AM
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  RT @MedicsVoices: Thank you for sharing this. We would not have academic publications without the huge commitment of colleagues aroun… https://t.co/ULwtsXpGn8

  Apr 6, 2023, 10:56 AM
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  RT @BMJOpenSEM: 🆕 editorial ⤵️ SEM makes the world go ‘round‼️ A global authorship and unified effort to raise the bar for #Sport… https://t.co/efr7KWQg8r

  Mar 30, 2023, 10:36 AM
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  RT @DrSportSante: SEM around the World. Ode to a profession worth every minute of my day. Great job by @CarrardJustin… https://t.co/KAWpqNi16W

  Mar 30, 2023, 10:35 AM
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  RT @PatrickOwenPhD: 🤩I appreciate journals putting in extra effort. Thank-you @AnnalsofIM for this kind acknowledgement! Other example… https://t.co/VkR1urr8gK

  Mar 28, 2023, 4:23 AM
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  RT @FemaleAthConf: #2023FAC featured talk: IOC Consensus REDs Update! @louisemburke, @margomountjoy, and @TStellingwerff will discuss… https://t.co/62hHgcXcQu

  Mar 28, 2023, 12:15 AM
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  RT @FionaWilsonf: All that my fellow Mancunian Emmeline says on #InternationalWomensDay A shout out to my male sports medicine collea… https://t.co/PQOzRcVlnv

  Mar 28, 2023, 12:02 AM
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  RT @physioshane: Excellent also was @AmsterdamCHSS @VUamsterdam 🇳🇱coming in 4th in World for sports research quality here, no surpri… https://t.co/KJOizm2efe

  Mar 24, 2023, 5:10 PM