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Erwin E. van Wegen, PhD

Associate Professor Neurorehabilitation
Amsterdam University Medical Center
Amsterdam, United States

I am an Associate Professor in neurorehabilitation at the Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc (dpt. Rehabilitation Medicine, Unit Neurorehabilitation). My research over the years has focused on the coordination of locomotion and standing balance as well as rehabilitation and recovery of motor and non-motor function in movement disorders, specifically in Parkinson’s Disease (PD), stroke, MS and the elderly. After my PhD studies, I returned to the Netherlands to start work on neurorahabilitation in Parkinson's diseas and stroke. I have gained experience in both mechanistic studies and conducting multicenter intervention trials, I was co-promotor in 12 completed PhD projects (of dec 2022). Within current projects I act as project coordinator and co-promotor /supervisor of 6 PhD students who’s projects are aimed at understanding early prognosis and longitudinal change in functional recovery, development of rehabilitation technology, e-health and selfmanagement and exercise and ambulatory monitoring of physical activity in patients with stroke, Parkinson’s disease and MS.
My technical skills involve posturography, ambulatory monitoring, motion-analysis, non-invasive transcranial, brain stimulation (tDCS), telerehabilitation, blood biomarkers, and brain-imaging research on functional connectivity. Expertise in posturography was obtained during my PhD project on the relationship between axial rigidity and balance in PD, extending into two grants awarded to me I obtained from the International Parkinson Fonds to study brain activation, movement control and balance therapy in PD.
Current projects fit with my workplan and focus on rehabilitation technology, ambulatory monitoring, e-health, telerehabilitation, exercise and neuroplasticity. I also am on the organizing committee of the bi-annual congress on Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, a board member of the Dutch Society for Neurorehabilitation and Program co-Director in the Amsterdam Movement Sciences research institute Program rehabilitation and Development..

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