Position: founder, trainerResponsibilities:- Strategic vision, mission and planning- Content development for e-learning and hands-on practice- Developing new courses in different topics, on different levels, for different professionals- Teaching education/courses and lecturing at events/conferences/universities.- Innovative thinking about ultrasoundSonoSkills is about education. SonoSkills teaches high quality ultrasound education to various healthcare professionals in primary and secondary care. Think of: radiologists, orthopedic surgeons, sport physicians, general practitionars, rheumatologists, physiotherapists, podiatrists, hand therapists, osteopaths, chiropractics, etc. With a variety of backgrounds, points-of-view and clinical experience our international team of trainers offer fresh perspectives and speak a total of 12languages. SonoSkills embraces lifelong learning and offers courses on a multilevel structure:✔ Level 1: foundational level✔ Level 2: intermediate level✔ Level 3: advanced level✔ Level 4: expert levelMore information about the level structure, and what is being taught on each level can be seen in this video: http://bit.ly/2ryMpGxAll SonoSkills courses are blended, meaning a combination of online and onsite learning. Blended learning is an additional element to classroom teaching and one which supports existing teaching practices. It combines many of the best elements of face-to-face teaching (personalized learning and social interaction) while allowing greater variety and flexibility than a traditional classroom set up, responding to the needs of the modern learner. Over 150 videos, totaling to over 16 hours of content are on-demand available to participants before, during and after the course. Visit http://www.sonoskills.com/elearning-platform for some sample videos.

Position: Representing SonoSkills as exclusive partner in 123Sonography MSK ultrasound eLearningResponsibilities:- Creating great new MSK ultrasound eLearning courses- Managing the MSK ultrasound eLearning content- Managing key-opinion leaders and SonoSkills trainers who develop new content- Managing the peer-review committee- Strategic vision, mission and planning- Implementation of eLearning in SonoSkills blended learning program- Helping in making the SonoSkills / 123Sonography partnership a success- Innovative thinking about ultrasoundGlobal #1 online platform for learning medical ultrasound & echocardiography. With more than 27,500 customers and 275,000 users from over 175 Countries, 123sonography is leading the way in helping healthcare professionals get the best education, saving lives, and improving health outcomes.No matter what your level of expertise is, if you work in an emergency setting, in general medicine, primary care or if you are training to become a doctor or sonographer, 123sonography offers the right product - all 100% online. Register for free chapters on our website today! https://www.123sonography.comWhile developing the courses and defining the learning objectives at 123sonography, we strictly follow the scientific guidelines on how to assess and manage your patients with the help of ultrasound. Choose between Diploma Courses, micro-learning apps, webinars, and subscription memberships – we have a matching learning path ready for you!

Position: director of contentResponsibilities:- Managing the ultrasoundcases.info content- Managing key-opinion leaders, SonoSkills trainers, and volunteers who post the content- Managing the peer-review committee- Strategic vision, mission and planning- Implementation of ultrasoundcases.info in SonoSkills educational program- Managing the, and working with, partners of ultrasoundcases.info- Innovative thinking about ultrasoundWe're excited to share that SonoSkills has taken over the content management of UltrasoundCases.info. This is the largest ultrasound cases library in the world with over 7.000 cases, over 100.000 ultrasound images and 2.500 clips. It was started in 2004 by Dr. Taco Geertsma and was supported in this effort by Hitachi-Aloka. We are will completely rebuilt the website and open this platform again per June 2019 for anyone who'd like to share interesting cases: for the community, by the community. Stay tuned!

Position: founder, management, researcherResponsibilities:- Connecting people and institutions- Strategy - Guarding vision, mission, planning, execution and output- Participating in research- Innovative thinking about ultrasoundSonoScience is about ultrasound research and science. SonoScience is a non-profit network which focusses on clinical relevant scientific research in the domain of ultrasound.The SonoScience network consists out of SonoSkills, SonoCenters plus several established partnerships with universities or individual key-opinion leaders. All combined creates a powerful, skilled and smart network with a good infrastructure and research facilities.The research being done can be qualitative, quantitative, literature studies, etc. Examples of studies in which SonoScience is interested, but not exclusively, are studies about:✔ Diagnostic accuracy: validity, specificity, sensitivity✔ Reproducibility: inter- and intra reliability✔ Measurement protocols, standardization✔ Reference values✔ Minimal detectable change✔ Standard error of measurement✔ Correlation between cadaveric anatomy and ultrasound✔ Correlation between ultrasound and other medical imaging tools✔ Cost effectiveness✔ Added value for clinical reasoning and clinical decision making✔ And more...Ways to collaborate:Become a SonoScience partner in your region/country and get connected to the advantages and network of SonoSkills and SonoCenters, but also to all other (inter)national SonoScience partners.

Within the Laurentius hospital, department radiology, I have a weekly consultation day in which I scan the musculoskeletal system of patients. All patients are referred by a variety of doctors: GP's, orthopedic surgeons, rheumatologists, etc.

Position: Founder, management, sonographerResponsibilities:- Scanning patients with MSK problems. - Hiring new experienced sonographers- Managing sonographers and sonography interns- Strategic vision, mission and planning- Innovative thinking about ultrasoundSonoCenters is about scanning patients in clinical practice. SonoCenters delivers excellent patient care and service by scanning patients on behalf of (multidisciplinary) referring healthcare professionals who send patients in for ultrasound examination.SonoCenters uses high quality ultrasound systems, and works with motivated and excellent professionals to deliver the best patient care. After an ultrasound consult, the songrapher immediately creates report which contains all findings, all ultrasound images, and a conclusion. The report is being send to the referring healthcare professional and/or patient.SonoCenters has a intimate relation with SonoSkills and SonoScience, which makes SonoCenters regional knowledge hubs in ultrasound and an outstanding partner for education, care and science.Ways to collaborate:✔ Not sure about your patients’ health problem? Refer your patient to SonoCenters for a one time ultrasound consult and receive the patient back with a detailed ultrasound report.✔ Become a highly motivated and skilled sonographer working at SonoCenters.✔ Start an independent SonoCenters in your region/country. You have the right to work under the SonoCenters brand, have access to the SonoCenters network, work with the official SonoCenter sonographers, and have all advantages of being a regional knowledge hubs in ultrasound (reputation, education, healtcare, science).✔ Are you an ultrasound system manufacturer? SonoCenters can offer you feedback on your newly developed medium- or highend range ultrasound systems given by its experts sonographers. The feedback can be given on workflow, image quality and overall performance.

The program "Musculoskeletal (MSK) ultrasound for physiotherapists" MSc. program in collaboration with Leiden University Medical Centre, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Maastricht University. This MSc. program will take two years if you're already holding a MSc. degree, or three years if you're holding a BSc. degree.Position: head of the department Responsibilities:- managing the whole educational process around students- building the curriculum- inviting, instructing, and facilitating guest lecturers- teaching parts of the curriculum- implementation of latest evidence- accreditation of the whole MSc. program- Being in direct contact with management of SOMT- working together with peers (head of department of other programs)- building a framework and network of clinical placements- contact person for advisory board

www.anatomy-physiotherapy.comAnatomy & Physiotherapy promotes evidenced based physiotherapy to (student)physiotherapists, musculoskeletal health professionals and educational institutes. It encourages the intensive use of literature and life long learning and has aproximately 600,000 unique fans, worldwide. The team of Anatomy & Physiotherapy is international and has about 60 volunteers working for the page – which is available in 9 languages – and social media.

Fontys School of Allied Health ProfessionsDept. Health Innovations and TechnologiesSupervising student research in musculoskeletal ultrasoundLecturing anatomyfontys.nl/paramedisch

www.icmsu.comThe International Congress of Musculoskeletal Ultrasound will organized annually and aims to inform and inspire musculoskeletal sonographers with the latest evidence. The first edition of the congress will be held at 28th march 2015 in the Amsterdam Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The topic of this edition will be: "Professionalization of musculoskeletal ultrasound: research translated into clinical practice". A program with (inter)national top-speakers has been created.Submission for the congress is possible as from november 1. The number of attending visitors will be maximized at 300 people. This is a not-to-be missed event!

Have your own diagnostic musculoskeletal ultrasound consultation hour within your practice on a freelance base. I will assess your patients with musculoskeletal extremity complaints with a new high quality portable ultrasound system. Have the benefits of musculoskeletal ultrasound without making the investments in system, study and long learning curve!