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Ivar has a “just do it!” mentality to bring forward change through inspiration and positive reinforcement. |
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Cormac Ryan is Professor of Clinical Rehabilitation at Teesside University. He graduated from the University of Limerick in 2002 with a BSc in Sports and Exercise Science and completed an MSc in Physiotherapy (pre-registration) at Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh. He was awarded his PhD from Glasgow Caledonian University in 2008 where he investigated the relationship between physical activity and chronic lower back pain. Cormac has published over eighty peer-reviewed scientific journal articles and obtained more the £1.4m in research funding from organisations including NIHR and Innovate UK. His primary area of research is pain management with a particular interest in pain education for people with pain, health care professionals, and the general public. He has been involved in developing guidelines and standards for a variety of organisations including the British Pain Society and the Faculty of Pain Medicine. He is currently the Community Pain Champion for the Flippin’ Pain™ campaign, which is UK wide a public health campaign run by Connect Health™. The campaign aims to improve public understanding of pain. |
Tom is an Advanced Physiotherapist with the Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre (DMRC) in the UK, where he works with an excellent multidisciplinary team helping armed forces personnel recover from complex upper limb injuries. Although currently he is on a career break, working as a Physiotherapist in the Cayman Islands. As part of his role at DMRC Tom worked with the with the Academic Department of Medical Rehabilitation (ADMR) to develop an Augmented Reality Mirror Therapy Platform to help patients presenting with Functional Neurological Disorder or Complex Regional Pain Syndrome of the upper limb. Simultaneously he also explored the movement patterns of patients presenting with multidirectional instability of the shoulder and using virtual reality combined with electromyographic biofeedback help these patients re-train their movement control. Outside of work Tom is often found running or cooking for friends. |
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Jordan is a Senior Clinical Fellow in Rheumatology and the Virtual Reality Lead for Postgraduate Education at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital, UK. Jordan founded the MSK Therapeutics VR EEG Lab at the University of East Anglia and his research aims to understand how use of immersive technologies can support patients with Rheumatological conditions including Fibromyalgia Syndrome. He has actively co-developed VR interventions for the management of chronic pain, conducted funded primary research investigating efficacy and presented internationally on use of immersive technologies in healthcare. |
Corry is Professor and consultant for Rehabilitation Medicine at the University Medical Center Groningen, the Netherlands. Her field of interest is the rehabilitation of persons with upper limb disorders. Her professional activities comprise patient care, teaching and research. Her research focuses mainly on upper limb amputations and prostheses and on phantom limb pain. A main research topic is the development of training programs for people who use upper limb prostheses. Innovative technology such as serious games are integrated in this research. A second main research topic is the decrease and prevention of musculoskeletal complaints in persons with upper limb disorders. She collaborated in an international trial on the usage of virtual and augmented reality to reduce phantom limb pain. She is author of over 130 internationally peer reviewed publications and she contributed as an author to 8 book chapters. |
Paul Iske is professor of Open Innovation & Business Venturing at the School of Business and Economics of Maastricht University. Here he is mainly concerned with service innovation and social innovation, specializing in Combinatoric Innovation. His mission is to make organizations smarter, more innovative and more entrepreneurial. Until mid-2015, he was connected as Chief Dialogues Officer at ABN AMRO. He makes connections in order to create opportunities for innovative and sustainable value creation. Paul is founder of the Institute for Brilliant Failures, with the aim of developing an understanding of the complexities of innovation and entrepreneurship. Paul obtained his doctorate in theoretical physics and then worked at Shell, where he mainly connected knowledge within and outside Shell. For his innovative attitude within ABN AMRO, Paul was nominated in 2014 by Management Team and Accenture for Innovator of the Year. |
XR4PAIN Conference 2023
XR4PAIN Conference 2023d.kiggen@maartenskliniek.nl
XR4PAIN Conference 2023d.kiggen@maartenskliniek.nlhttps://www.aanmelder.nl/139810
2023-06-30
2023-06-30
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XR4PAIN Conference 2023XR4PAIN Conference 20230.00EUROnlineOnly2019-01-01T00:00:00Z
Tobacco TheaterTobacco TheaterNes 75-87 1012 KD Amsterdam Netherlands