Dr. Stephan Praet, MD PhD FEBSM FACSEP
Adj. Assoc. Prof. UCRISE (University of Canberra Research Institute for Sport & Exercise)
Research Expertise
About
Publications
Education
Netherlands Institute for the Training of Specialist in Sports Medicine
Sports Medicine Residency Training Program, Sports & Exercise Medicine / December, 2004
Maastricht University
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Clinical Exercise Physiology / December, 2007
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)
Doctor of Medicine - MD, Medicine / December, 1999
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)
Master's of Science degree (M.Sc.), Human Movement Sciences / December, 1994
Jansenius Scholengemeenschap, Hulst, The Netherlands
VWO diploma / December, 1989
Experience
PHYTNESS HealthCare
Consultant in Sport & Exercise Medicine / September, 2022 — Present
As a Sport & Exercise Physician Dr. Praet offers specialist expertise in general medicine, orthopaedics, radiology & rehabilitation plus allied sport sciences including nutrition, biomechanics, exercise physiology & sports psychology.Dr. Praet also has a special interest in (neural) prolotherapy through Lyftogt Perineural Injection Treatment (P.I.T.) to treat chronic myofascial (nerve) pain, osteoarthritis, tendinopathies, ligament injuries & TMJ-dysfunction.
Ochre Health Medical Centres
Consultant in Sport & Exercise Medicine / November, 2017 — Present
At Ochre Health Medical Centres , Dr.Praet offers the complete array of sports medicine services and tests to ACT or NSW residents with musculoskeletal injuries or concussion symptoms, those who are intolerant to exercise due to a chronic disease or cancer treatment, those seeking a pre-participation screening before starting high-intensity or competitive sport activities, as well as developing or high-performance athletes.
MUVi - Mobile UV Innovations P/L
Chief Scientific Officer / September, 2021 — Present
Role: Initiating and overseeing research applied research on a novel photo-electron based virucidal deactivation technology to deactivate the docking mechanism of coronaviruses and prevent infection of host cells in collaboration with University of New South Wales, Sydney.
Chief Scientific Officer / September, 2021 — Present
University of Canberra
Adjunct Associate Professor / January, 2016 — Present
Research interests: Musculoskeletal overuse injuries, Metabolic stress and nutrition; Imaging of musculoskeletal injuries; Cardiovascular response to exercise; Lower limb and foot biomechanics; Exercise and Chronic disease; Current PhD-thesis supervision:Julian Everett, "The effect of herbal testosterone boosters on total testosterone, body composition, strength, symptoms of ageing, muscle damage and recovery and inflammation in middle-aged males; Tariq Alzyadat, M.Eng. Multimodal Computational Framework for Medical Imaging Studies (on hold)
UPANDRUNNING Medical Center LLC
Consultant in Sport & Exercise Medicine / January, 2018 — December, 2019
From January 2018-December 2019, Dr.Praet has been offering the complete array of sports medicine services and tests to Dubai residents with musculoskeletal injuries or concussion symptoms, those who are intolerant to exercise due to a chronic disease or cancer treatment, those seeking a pre-participation screening before starting high-intensity or competitive sport activities, as well as developing or high-performance athletes.
Australian Sports Commission
Specialist in Sports & Exercise Medicine / March, 2015 — September, 2017
Provided medical services to Australia's high performance athletes. Duties: direct clinical care, interdisciplinary cooperation, collaboration with National Sports Organisations and other high performance sector partners, team travel, strategic thinking, policy development. Furthermore, I was part-time involved in scientific development and innovation at dept. of Sports Medicine as well as training and education of ACSEP-Registrars in Sports Medicine.
Erasmus University Medical Centre
Sport & Exercise physician/Human movement scientist / January, 2008 — March, 2015
Clinician and Senior Researcher at Department of Rehabilitation Medicine specialised in:-chronic musculoskeletal overuse injuries-innovative lifestyle interventions-exercise therapy in chronic diseases (type 2 diabetes, mitochondrial diseases); supervised both PhD students and Medical students
Rijndam revalidatiecentrum
Sports & Exercise physician / June, 2013 — January, 2015
Consultant sport & exercise physician (0.1 fte), Department of Occupational Rehabilitation for ‘high-risk’ professionals (police officers, fire fighters etc)
ZorgSaam Zeeuws-Vlaanderen
Consultant in Sports & exercise medicine (Prosano Sport & Exercise) / January, 2007 — May, 2014
Services provided: Consultations, diagnostic procedures, Treatment of patients and athletes with exercise-intolerance and musculoskeletal overuse injuries
Maastricht University
PhD student @ dept. of Movement Sciences, NUTRIM Research Institute / January, 2003 — December, 2007
Initiated, conducted and supervised several research projects related to Clinical Exercise physiology in type 2 diabetes, initiaed/developed/prepared research protocols, obtained medical ethics approval, secured funding, published scientific research report in peer-reviewed journals, developed novel cardiopulmonary exercise testing protocol, gait analysis and performance tests for highly deconditined patients.
Maxima Medisch Centrum
Registar (AGIO) in Sports & Exercise Medicine / September, 2000 — December, 2004
Hospital-based training (at Máxima MC) in Emergency Medicine/ATLS, Traumatology, Cardiology, Pulmonology, Internal Medicine and Orthopaedic & General Surgery
Vrije Universiteit Medical Centre (VUMC)
Resident(AGNIO) in Orthopaedic Surgery / March — August
Pre-surgical screening of patients admitted for elective surgery; assist with major surgical procedures
Össur Prosthetics, Reykjavik, Iceland
Research consultant / October, 1999 — February, 2000
Initiated and conducted a pilot study on plantar pressure dynamics underneath two energy storing prosthetic feet to optimize and tune gait and running economy in lower limb amputees (in collaboration with prof. dr. L. Peeraer KU Leuven , prof. dr. D. DeClercq (RU Ghent) & prof. dr. B. van Gheluwe (VU Brussels)
AMPLO Biotechnology
Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board for Sarcopenia, / January, 2020 — December, 2021
Scientific Advisor on AAV-Dok7 gene therapy for patients with Congenital Myasthenic Syndromes
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