Gino Kerkhoffs

Chair

Gino Kerkhoffs (1972) is professor and head of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery of the Amsterdam University Medical Centers; chair of the Academic Center of Evidence based Sports medicine (ACES), and co-chair of the Amsterdam Collaboration on Health and Safety in Sports (ACHSS), one of the 11 International Olympic Committee (IOC) Centers of Research Excellence for the Prevention of Injury and Promotion of Health in Athletes. His clinical work focusses on sports injuries of the lower extremity and he has been honorary recognized as Team NL Preferred Physician for providing excellent orthopedic medical care to elite athletes by the Dutch National Olympic Committee. His main research topics are:

1. Early detection, diagnosis and (surgical) treatment of ankle cartilage injuries

2. Early detection, diagnosis and (surgical) treatment of muscle injuries of the lower extremity

3. Mental health issues in (elite) athletes.

Through his research Kerkhoffs tries to help athletes to return to sport safely and quickly as well as prevent long term after career sequelae osteoarthritis and mental health problems.

Paul Kuijer

Principal Investigator

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. 

If you want to know more about his interest and research, check out:

Paul Kuijer’s AmsterdamUMC page

Paul Kuijer’s LinkedIn page

Paul Kuijer’s ResearchGate page