Professor Gert Kwakkel has a chair of Neurorehabilitation at the VU University Medical Centre in Amsterdam as well as the Rudolf Magnus Institute of the University Medical Centre Utrecht in The Netherlands. In particular his chair is dedicated to translational research in which knowledge from pre-clinical research is used for a better understanding of functional change in the field of stroke rehabilitation as well as patients with Parkinsons' disease and multiple sclerosis. He published more than 100 papers in leading scientific journals such as Lancet, Lancet Neurology and Stroke. He is member of the management board of Research Institute Move at the VU University and he is European Managing Editor of the journal Neurorehabilitation & Neural Repair (NNR) (impact factor: 5.4). Professor Kwakkel is president of the Dutch Society of Neurorehabilitation (DSNR; www.neurorehab.nl) and member of the scientific steering committees of the European Federation of Neurorehabilitation (EFNR) and the World Federation of Neurorehabilitation (WFNR). |