Ann Cools, PhD

Ann Cools

ist Physiotherapeutin, führt in eigener Praxis eine Schulterklinik; außerordentliche Professorin am Institut für Rehabilitationswissenschaften und Physiotherapie der Universität Gent, Belgien. Forschung und Lehre zum Thema Schulterrehabilitation im Allgemeinen bzw. der sportspezifische Ansatz und die Schulterblattbeteiligung im Besonderen. Promotion 2003 über die Beteiligung des Schulterblatts an sportbedingten Schulterschmerzen bei Überkopfathleten, weitere Publikationstätigkeiten. 2008-2016 Leiterin der Physiotherapieausbildung an der Universität Gent; 2008-2012 Gründungsmitglied und Präsidentin der European Society of Shoulder and Elbow Rehabilitation (EUSSER). Seit 2016 leitende Forscherin an der Abteilung für Physiotherapie des Bispebjerg Krankenhauses und der Abteilung für Sportmedizin der Universität Kopenhagen, Dänemark. Derzeit Vorstandsmitglied des International Congress of Shoulder and Elbow Therapists, organisiert den 3-Jahres-Weltkongress für Schulter- und Ellenbogentherapeuten und Gründungsmitglied des Flämischen Schulternetzwerks.

Ann Cools is a physiotherapist, working as an associate professor at the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy at the Ghent University, Belgium. Her topic of research and teaching expertise, is shoulder rehabilitation in general, and sport specific approach and scapular involvement in particular. Besides her academic work, she runs a shoulder clinic in a private practice. She finished her PhD in 2003, debating scapular involvement in sports related shoulder pain in the overhead athlete, and she has published numerous papers in peer-reviewed international journals, wrote contributions and chapters in several international recognized books, and gives courses on a national and international level. She was head of the Physical Therapy Education at the Ghent University 2008-2016, and was founding member and president of the European Society of Shoulder and Elbow Rehabilitation (EUSSER) 2008-2012. Since 2016, she is also affiliated as senior researcher to the Department of Physiotherapy of the Bispebjerg Hospital and the Department of Sports Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She is currently a member of the Board of the International Congress of Shoulder and Elbow Therapists, organizing the 3-annual world congress for shoulder and elbow therapists, and is founding board member of the Flemish Shoulder Network.