van der Schaaf, Marike

Marike van der Schaaf (PT PhD) is Associate Professor Acute Care Rehabilitation and epidemiologist / physiotherapist  at ACHIEVE-Centre of Applied Research, Faculty of Health, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, and the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine of the Academic Medical Center (AMC), University of Amsterdam. Marike graduated from Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences in 1991 with a Bachelor of Applied Science (Physiotherapy). Following which, she worked as a physiotherapist at the AMC, University of Amsterdam, covering the spectrum of physiotherapy from critical care through outpatient care. She completed a clinical epidemiologist Evidence Based Practice Master of Science (Cum Laude, 2004) and her PhD on Functional Recovery after Critical Illness (2009), both with the University of Amsterdam.

She published 30 papers in (inter)national peer reviewed journals and had presentations on critical care, rehabilitation and physiotherapy congresses.  Currently she is supervising 5 PhD candidates on interdisciplinary projects investigating physiotherapy and rehabilitation in critically ill patients.  She is member of the board of the European Mobilization Network, study groups of the Dutch Society of Intensive Care, the Netherlands Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, the Foundation for Patient and Family Centered Intensive Care (FCIC) and the patient platform www.opeenICliggen.nl.