We are the Amsterdam Collaboration on Health & Safety in Sports (ACHSS). An initiative that brings together, within the Amsterdam UMC, two Dutch leading academic groups on research and clinical practice of athlete health protection. The ACHSS initiative is one of the 11 IOC Research Centers for Prevention of Injury and Protection of Athlete Health.
Through this website we will keep you updated on our own research and others' who deal with these topics.
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Pablo Stegerhoek (1997) is a human movement scientist and PhD candidate at the Amsterdam Movement Science research institute at Amsterdam University Medical Centers (Amsterdam UMC). His promotores are Prof. Dr. Evert Verhagen and Dr. Paul Kuijer. His PhD project is focused on work ability in Dutch military police personnel. The aim of this project is to develop practical interventions that promote durability for the personnel in the Dutch military police.
Dr. Paul Kuijer (1966) is trained as a human movement scientist and is working as Principal Investigator at the Coronel Institute of Occupational Health and as a human movement specialist on work-related musculoskeletal disorders at the Netherlands Center for Occupational Diseases and at the People and Work Outpatient Clinic, all part of the Amsterdam UMC-location AMC, Amsterdam.
Paul's research goal is enhancing work participation among patients with musculoskeletal disorders by improving integrated patient-centered care. His expertise are workers with end-stage knee and hip osteoarthritis and low-back pain.
Besides doing research and patient care, Paul is coordinator of the three months elective course 'Medicine and Elite sports: high demand professions! Groundbreaking multidisciplinary care for demanding professions' for second year AMC medical students, together with prof. Mario Maas. Moreover, Paul teaches (para)medical students at the AMC and the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and residents in insurance and occupational medicine how to perform and enhance work-directed care for the aforementioned patient groups.
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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.
