Philip van der Wees (Netherlands)

Session

Focused symposium:  Development of Evidence-Based Recommendations for Physical Therapy Diagnosis and Treatment (Convenor)

Biography

Philip van der Wees, Ph.D., P.T. is physical therapist and human movement scientist from Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He finished his doctoral thesis in 2009, in which he evaluated the development and implementation of evidence-based clinical guidelines in physical therapy. He currently works as Program Manager Quality & Implementation in a joint program of the Royal Dutch Society for Physical Therapy (KNGF), Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre (IQ healthcare), and Maastricht University (Caphri Research Institute). His assignment is to stimulate the implementation of clinical guidelines in physical therapy and to systematically evaluate the implementation in research projects. Philip van der Wees was responsible for development and execution of the clinical guideline program of the Royal Dutch Society for Physical Therapy (KNGF), and is lead author of the KNGF-guideline Ankle sprain. He is co-author of several national multidisciplinary guidelines (Obesity, Ankle sprain, Tobacco addiction). He is representative of the European Region of the World Confederation for Physical Therapy (WCPT) in the Guidelines International Network (G-I-N). He wrote several key-note papers for WCPT about development and implementation of clinical guidelines.

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