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.

James Brown

Collaborating Researcher

James is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Division of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine (ESSM)[JB1]  at the University of Cape Town (South Africa). His PhD evaluated the effectiveness of a nationwide injury prevention program for rugby union, called BokSmart (www.boksmart.com). As a result of his PhD, he now holds a joint Post-Doctoral position paid by the South African Rugby Union’s BokSmart department (www.boksmart.com) and Chris Burger Petro Jackson Players’ Fund (www.playersfund.org.za).

James’ research interests include: preventing all rugby-related injuries including catastrophic injuries, evaluation and implementation of interventions, understanding barriers to optimal health care of all rugby players including those who have suffered catastrophic injuries while playing the game.

Marelise Badenhorst

Collaborating Researcher

Marelise studied Physiotherapy at Stellenbosch University where she also obtained a Master’s degree in Orthopaedic Manual Therapy. She worked as an Orthopaedic and Sports injury Physiotherapist in both public and private health care, until she became a full-time PhD student as part of the Vrije University-NRF South Africa Desmond Tutu Doctoral Programme in 2015. She is currently based at Division of Exercise Science and Sports Medicine of the University of Cape Town.

For her PhD study, she will investigate the long-term consequences of catastrophic injuries in South African Rugby union players. This project will be conducted in conjunction with the Chris Burger /Petro Jackson Players’ Fund, a non-profit organisation that provides psychological, physical and emotional support for players who have been seriously injured. In her free time, she enjoys running and mountain biking. 

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.

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