Sietske Luijten

Junior Researcher

Sietske Luijten (1996) is currently working as a PhD student on the Tailored Injury Prevention in Adapted Sports (TIPAS) project at the Department of Public and Occupational Health of the Amsterdam UMC. She completed her Masters in Human Movement Science in 2020 and the Masters Epidemiology in 2023 at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. The main aim of the PhD project is to reduce the number of injuries due to sports and exercise in adapted sports through early recognition of health problems and providing tailored preventive advice.

If you want to know more about her research and publications, it might be worth to check out her ORCID profile.

s.luijten@amsterdamumc.nl

sietske.luijten@gmail.com

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.

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

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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  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

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.

i.vriend@veiligheid.nl