Melina Kastrinou (1998) is doing her internship provided by the Erasmus+ program and she is working on the Injury Prevention Review under supervision of prof. Evert Verhagen. She completed her bachelor in Physical Education and Sport Science at the University of Athens in Greece. The main aim of the internship is to update the Injury Prevention Project with the latest reviews.
Injury Prevention Review
Jelena Haugg
Master student
Jelena Haugg (1995) is a physiotherapist and she’s doing her Master in ‘Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy’ at the VU Amsterdam. After working in practice with patients in her home country Germany, she wanted to enlarge and deepen her scientific knowledge in the field of physiotherapy.
In her research she is focused on the implementation and scaling up pathways of injury prevention programs after their initial effectiveness trial.
Caroline Silveira Bolling
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Caroline Bolling is a sports physiotherapist from Brazil. She acquired her master's degree in Public Health at UFMG in Belo Horizonte on injuries and health of professional dancers, and has knowledge on the epidemiology and prevention of sports injuries. She worked 9 years as a physiotherapist in Minas Tenis Clube ( Brazil), especially with artistic and trampoline gymnastics. Thereafter, she was the head therapist at the Cirque du Soleil Quidam show. Currently, through a Science Without Borders grant, she is a researcher at the department of Public and Occupational Health at the VU University Medical Center, working on a qualitative project on the athletes’ narrative of injuries and injury prevention.
Femke van Nassau
Senior Researcher
Femke van Nassau is a Post Doc at the Department of Public and Occupational Health of the EMGO+ Institute at the VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She holds a PhD (2015) from the VU University Amsterdam and a Msc degree in Health Sciences (major in Human Movement Science) from Maastricht University, both in the Netherlands.
Her main research topics are: Implementation research, process and effect evaluation, determinants of implementation, measurement of sedentary and physical activity behavior, intervention development following the Intervention Mapping protocol, prevention of overweight, qualitative research (focus group, interview). As part of her PhD research, Femke developed an implementation index score to measure programme delivery by combining measures of quality, dosage and fidelity.
Within the department, Femke has teaching responsibilities concerning courses for students the faculties of Medicine, Human Movement Sciences and Health Sciences and individual supervision in research training.
Joske Nauta
Senior Researcher
Joske Nauta is a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Public and Occupational Health of VU University Medical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. After studying human movement sciences at the VU, she has been traveling and working at a large energy supplier before she returned to Amsterdam. Since 2009 she has been combining her duties as personal assistant to the head of department with an appointment as junior researcher. This has resulted in a thesis on injury prevention in young children which she successfully defended in June 2015. For her postdoctoral position, she is working on projects on the prevention of injuries, mainly in children.
Evert Verhagen
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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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Ingrid Vriend
Collaboratoring Researcher
Ingrid Vriend (1973) is working as a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Public and Occupational Health of Amsterdam UMC, location VU University Medical Center. She studied Human Movement Science and Epidemiology, and worked as a researcher at VeiligheidNL (Consumer Safety Institute) and embedded researcher at VUmc focusing, among other things, on sports injuries and the development and evaluation of interventions. This work has resulted in a thesis ‘Preventing sport injuries: from evidence to practice’ which she successfully defended in September 2017. Currently, she is working on projects on the prevention of injuries in youth volleyball and judo.