Jan Mehrholz (Germany)

Session

Focused symposium:  Cochrane Systematic Reviews - Enabling Evidence-Based Physiotherapy after Stroke (Convenor)

Biography

Dr Jan Mehrholz is a physiotherapy researcher with an established international track-record in presentation and publication. Jan is on the Editorial Board of the Cochrane Stroke Group and is lead author on 3 published Cochrane reviews and 1 published Cochrane protocol.

• PT, BSc, M.P.H., Dr rer medic habil, Associate Professor
• Professor, Hochschule Gera' since 2008; Editorial Board member of the Cochrane Stroke Group since 2009
• More than 30 publications in peer-reviewed journals, including Cochrane reviews and multicenter randomised controlled trials. This research has been presented at national and international physiotherapy and other conferences.
• Dr Mehrholz has broad clinical expertise as a Physiotherapist, and was working in neurological rehabilitation since 1997; since this time he was working on many physiotherapy related scientific projects; he works as an Associate Professor at the Technical University of Dresden, Faculty of Medicine
• Dr Mehrholz is now head of the Wissenschaftliches Institut Kreischa; his main research interests are in neurological rehabilitation and neurological physiotherapy especially motor training after stroke and other neurological diseases

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