Senior Lecturer
University of Applied Sciences Utrecht
Utrecht, Netherlands
Olav Versloot studied physiotherapy at the University of Applied Sciences in Amsterdam, where he obtained his BSc. in 1998. Following this, he worked as a sports physiotherapist in private clinics and at the Ajax youth academy. In 2007, he obtained his MSc. in Human Movement Sciences at VU University in Amsterdam. Following this, he worked as an exercise physiologist in professional football in the Netherlands, Qatar and China before joining the Van Creveldkliniek in 2017 to start this PhD project. The SPRAIN (Sports Participation and Injuries in People Haemophilia) project was supervised by Prof. dr. R.E.G. Schutgens, Dr. K. Fischer and Dr. J. van der Net. During his PhD project, he completed a postgraduate Master in clinical epidemiology at Utrecht University in 2020. While working on his PhD, he worked as a lecturer at Utrecht University. He received the Sobi research award 2019 with his colleague Anne Hoefnagels for their research on sports participation and therapy adherence in people with haemophilia. He completed his PhD in 2023.
He currently works as a senior lecturer at the department of physiotherapy of the University of Applied Science Utrecht, where he teaches courses in the musculoskeletal domain and is the course coordinator for academic development in clinical health sciences of Utrecht University.. He lives with his wife and children in Krommenie and somehow tries to make time for reading, music, running and cycling.