Raymond Ostelo is a Professor of Evidence-Based Physiotherapy. He is the program director of the Musculoskeletal Health Program of the Amsterdam Movement Sciences (AMS) Research Institute, and he leads the Musculoskeletal Research Section of the Department of Health Sciences (VU University). Additionally, he is a visiting professor at the OsloMet (Oslo Metropolitan University). In the past, he was a visiting professor at the University of Bergen (Norway) and the University of Sydney (Australia). As a clinical epidemiologist and physiotherapist, he combines research and education in a range of multidisciplinary projects primarily focusing on low back pain, musculoskeletal conditions, rehabilitation after trauma, epidemiology, and measurement. He has published in high-profile journals, such as the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), British Medical Journal (BMJ), PAIN, Clinical Journal of Epidemiology, and the Cochrane Library. He has also been involved in the development of multiple mono- and multidisciplinary evidence-based clinical guidelines.
Kris Vissers is an anesthesiologist, a professor in Pain and Palliative Medicine, and the Chairman of the Radboud Expertise Center of Pain and Palliative Medicine of Radboud University and Radboudumc. He is engaged in the following research themes: improvement of the healthcare chain in patients in the palliative phase of healthcare, improvements of the healthcare chain for patients with chronic pain, quality-of-life in palliative care and terminal disorders, predictability and optimization of care of patients with terminal disorders, the developmental mechanisms of chronic neuropathic pain and pain caused by injuries to the nervous system, cognitive disorders due to the chronic use of opiates, tolerance of opiates and opiate rotation schemes, and translational research.
Miranda L. Van Hooff is currently working as a senior researcher at the Department for Scientific Research, Sint Maartenskliniek and the Department for Orthopedic Surgery, Radboud University Medical Center. After having worked as a rehabilitation physiotherapist, she was employed as a health scientist in 2006. Since 2010, she has been working as a full-time researcher in orthopedics. In 2017, she obtained her Ph.D. as a clinical epidemiologist. Her research focuses on the development of decision support and (methodology of) clinical outcome studies in spine-related disorders and the use of 3D-printed implants and prosthetic-joint infections.
