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Keynote Speaker BiographyWim Dankaerts
Wim Dankaerts is an Associate Professor in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy at the Catholic University Leuven and the Association University Hasselt Limburg-PHL, Belgium. He also works part-time in private practice in Tienen (Belgium) as a Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist. Wim graduated as a physiotherapist from the Catholic University Leuven, Belgium (1990) and received his Post Graduate Diploma in Manipulative Physiotherapy, from Curtin University, Perth, WA (1995). He completed his PhD at Curtin University (2005). Associate Professor Dr Peter O’Sullivan was his principal supervisor. During his doctoral studies Wim was a Lecturer at the prestigious Professional Masters in Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy program at Curtin University of Technology, Perth WA. His main interest of research is into mechanism-based classification for CLBP. He has published several papers and presented his research findings at many international conferences. He has also presented many clinical courses on the treatment of chronic low back pain internationally. |
