Keynote Speakers
Hanneke JJ Knibbe, MSc, BSc, 1958
MSc (Cum Laude) degree in Human Movement Science and also a BSc in Physical Therapy (Cum Laude).
She received the 2010 Bernice Owen Award for Research in Patient Handling (University of South Florida, USA).
Worked as a researcher at:
- Free University of Amsterdam
- University of the City of Amsterdam
- Netherlands Institute for Research in Health Care (NIVEL, WHO Collaborative Centre)
Founded LOCOmotion Health&Research and has been involved as an independent researcher and consultant in all phases of the national implementation of the Dutch covenants and their monitoring in home care and institutional care. Has published nationally and internationally in peer reviewed journals.
Dr. Leena Tamminen-Peter
Dr. Leena Tamminen-Peter graduated from Turku University. Her doctoral thesis dealt with the physical load of nurses, when they assist a patient to move. She is also an Occupational Physiotherapist and teacher of Nursing Science trained in Ergonomics working in that field since 1976, assisting in problem solving in a wide variety of settings & implemented concepts of healthy body mechanics & workstation design for the benefit of both injured workers and those seeking to prevent injury. As a Specialized Research Scientist at Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FIOH) she has worked for over three decades in ergonomics and prevention. She is among others author of two Finnish text books for Patient Handling, one for students one for teachers. As a member of the writing group she contributed to ISO Technical Report 12296 "Manual handling of people in the health care sector". Entrusted by FIOH she developed the standardized and registered national ergonomic teaching scheme of patient-handling in health care education, published in 2009 as the Ergonomic Patient Handling Card.
Retired from FIOH she established in 2010 Ergosolutions BC Oy Ab specialized in OH Ergonomics.
Leena Lahdesmaki-Makinen
Leena Lahdesmaki-Makinen is a Lecturer in Oulainen Vocational College, social and health care unit since Autumn 1991. Her educational background: Master of Nursing Sciences in teacher training programme Physiotherapist Studies in in Health related fitness test battery for older people PD- Studies in Health promotion Studies in vocational skills demonstrations Studies in Well-being at Work Teaches the care and supporting the functional capacity, rehabilitation and ergonomics. She is a qualified Ergonomic Patient Handling Passport trainer. She has been in teacher exchange in Sweden, Poland and Estonia. She has been on-the-job-period in Finland, England and Estonia. She has been working in severel local, regional and national work development projects. She has leaded international Leonardo Da Vinci Pilot project Supporting and Maintaining the Functional Capacity of Older People and Their Carers - VATO -training package and the Leonardo Da Vinci Transfer of Innovation project Supporting the Functional Capacity of Older People with Skill and Quality - Sufuca project. She worked as a physiotherapist years 1981-1984 in Oulainen Health Center and The Hospital of Oulaskangas. Ward manager in Physiotherapy Department The Hospital of Oulaskangas in 1984-1991 Ward manager in Physiotherapy Department in the Rahabilitation Home of Taukokangas in 1987-1991.
W.G.W. (Wienke) Boerma, PhD
Subjects/activities
- Benchmarking in general practice
- Variation of task profiles in general practice
- Organisation of out-of-hours primary care
- Organisation and provision of home care
- Teamwork and cooperation in primary care
- Coordination and technical advising in primary care reform
Memberships
- European General Practice Research Network (EGPRN)
- Association Latine pour l’Analyse des Systèmes de Santés (ALASS)
- Dutch Society for Health Services Research
Education
- PhD, Health Sciences, Maastricht University (NL), 2003
- MSc, Clinical Psychology, Utrecht University (NL), 1980
- BA Human Resources Management (NL), 1970
Christina Makri
Mrs Christina Makri is born at Patras – Greece and she is a professional physiotherapist and owner of a private physiotherapy institute. She graduated from the School of Health and Prone professions of Technological and Educational Institute of Athens and she worked several years in public education. From 2015 she successfully completed the OTAGO training program (in cooperation with the physiotherapy department of Larisa Technological and Educational Institute) and she now is a certified training instructor of OTAGO. OTAGO consists of strength and balance exercises for elderly people in one to one basis or in small groups.
Professor Tore Johan Larsson, PhD
is the Chair of Safety Management and Occupational Injury Prevention, and the Director of the Centre for Health & Building at the School of Technology and Health, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. His expertize areas are accident and injury analysis, risk assessment, models and systems for injury prevention, strategic and corporate systems for OHS; he has developed the claims-based National Injury Information System for severe occupational injuries in Sweden.
He is a member of the editorial board of "Safety Science" (Elsevier); he is the editor of "IPSO Factum" since 1985, and the "Safety Science Monitor" (http://ssmon.chb.kth.se) since 1996; he has authored more than 150 publications and numerous video manuscripts. He has been instrumental in developing the new EU standard for occupational injury information (2000). He chaired the Scientific Committee on Accident Prevention in the International Commission on Occupational Health (ICOH) between 1996-2006.
