Dr Cees-Rein van den Hoogenband on being Chief Medical Officer of the Netherlands’ Olympic team

Dr Cees-Rein van den Hoogenband is surgeon and Chief Medical Officer of the London 2012 Olympic Team from the Netherlands and is on the Dutch Olympic Committee. Cees-Rein has worked for more than 25 years in soccer as the team doctor of football club PSV and is still responsible for their medical policies. He has been awarded a PhD on diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of inversion trauma of the ankle joint. He is also chairperson of the FINA medical commission and the father of Olympic Champion Pieter van den Hoogenband. He was part of the expert panel responsible for specialist recognition of sports medicine in the Netherlands and is the founder and leader of a four year masterclass for top sport physicians. See also: http://www.topsupport-anna.nl/ http://www.pietervandenhoogenband.nl/ http://www.psv.nl/ Sports injuries and illnesses in the 2009 FINA World Championships (Aquatics). http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/44/7/522.long

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