Adjunct Professor
Jaap Van Netten

Biography

Dr. Jaap van Netten is a human movement scientist from the Netherlands, specialized in clinical research on foot problems, most notably in people with diabetes. Two years after his graduation, he obtained his PhD in the field of rehabilitation medicine (University Medical Center Groningen, NL), studying people's use of custom-made orthopaedic shoes. He continued working as postdoc researcher in ZGT ([Hospital Group Twente], Almelo and Hengelo, NL), joining the diabetic foot team. He grew there to a senior researcher position, supervising projects in the three research lines of the diabetic foot team. Next to this, he was head of the Scientific Bureau of ZGT.

Early 2016, Van Netten moved to Australia, to continue building a strong link between research and clinical practice, but on the other side of the world. He is appointed Senior Research Fellow at the Queensland University of Technology, and Scientific Director of Diabetic Foot Australia.

Van Netten is also the secretary of the International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot Editorial Board and its Prevention Working Group. In these roles he is co-authoring the evidence-based international consensus guidance on the prevention and management of foot problems in diabetes. The latest version of this guidance has been launched in May 2015 during the International Diabetic Foot Symposium in The Hague; the road to the next update in 2019 has already started.