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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Amber von Gerhardt is a Medical Doctor and a former international judo athlete, currently working as a PhD-Candidate at the department of Orthopaedic Surgery under supervision of prof. Kerkhoffs and prof. Tol.
Her main research focuses on performance optimization and prevention of musculoskeletal injuries in judo athletes.
Guus Reurink (1982) is a sports medicine physician and human movement scientist who has a post-doctoral research position at the Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine department at the Amsterdam UMC, location AMC. He is also a sports medicine physician at the OLVG hospital and at the professional football club AFC Ajax.
His main research topics are: 1) Prevention and treatment of sports related injuries, especially acute muscle injuries; and 2) Growth related injuries in youth athletes. He (co-)supervises several PhD projects and Sports Medicine registrars in their scientific training.
If you want to know more about his research and publications, it might be worth to check out his Scopus profile.
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:
Early detection, diagnosis and (surgical) treatment of ankle cartilage injuries
Early detection, diagnosis and (surgical) treatment of muscle injuries of the lower extremity
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.
Hans Tol is a Sports Medicine Physician at the Amsterdam Medical University Centers (University of Amsterdam), AFC Ajax and visiting professional at Aspetar in Qatar, which is accredited as one of the eleven IOC research Centers.
He is also graduated as a human movement scientist (master VU, Amsterdam). Tol is an expert in conducting randomised controlled trails in the field of tendinopathy, muscle injuries and regenerative medicine, including platelet rich plasma and cell therapy. His interdisciplinary sports medicine research focuses on acute muscle injuries, degenerative tendinopathy, risk factor identification and prevention of sports-related injuries.
Besides his clinical work and research projects, he carried out extensive sports medical fieldwork through positions in professional soccer. Since 2004 he worked for the Royal Dutch Football Association, including the U21 National Team. He played in the highest youth teams of a Dutch professional premier league soccer team (somewhere in a previous century).
Publications: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=tol+jl
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.
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.