Rob de Bie (Netherlands)

Session

Discussion panel: Investigating what matters: how to meet the challenges of research in the 21st century (Panellist)

Focused symposium:  Web-Based Resources to Support Evidence-Based Physiotherapy (Speaker)

Biography

Rob de Bie studied physiotherapy (graduated 1987), human movement sciences (graduated in 1991) and epidemiology (registered in 1992) and has been Associate Professor in Clinical Epidemiology at Maastricht University, the Netherlands from 1999 -2003. His PhD thesis (1998) studied the effects of low level laser therapy in ankle sprains. He teaches Clinical Epidemiology and Evidence-Based Medicine to students from the university and at international courses and universities. His research focuses on diseases of the musculoskeletal system, especially in the rehabilitation and physiotherapeutic setting and he has won several research awards. He has written many articles on methodology and systematic reviewing and is author/co-author of books on research methodology for physiotherapists. He is director of the Cochrane Rehabilitation and Related Therapies Field, director of the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy - Maastricht that holds scientific responsibility for physiotherapy guidelines in the Netherlands, program director for the Health Sciences Research Master program, and editor for Cochrane Back Group and the Cochrane Musculoskeletal Group. He is co-editor for Advances in Physiotherapy and systematic reviews editor for Physical Therapy Reviews and advisory board member for the Australian Journal of Physiotherapy, member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Evidence-Based Physiotherapy, Sydney and research associate of the European bone and joint health strategies project and the ICF/WHO initiative on outcome assessment in multidisciplinary settings. From December 2003 he holds the chair in Physiotherapy Research and from September 2008 he is Education Director for Health at the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences.

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