On Thursday April 16, Marijke Hopman-Rock held her inaugural address to accept her endowed chair in physical activity among the elderly, at the VU University Medical Center. Her professorship is embedded in the EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research. Prof. Hopman-Rock is also co-director of the Body@Work research program on promoting physical activity and prevention of musculoskeletal disorders.
Dr. Hopman-Rock gave a very lively and and stimulating talk on why physical activity should and can be pursued among the elderly, and what kind of research is necessary to bring this field forward in the years to come. This endowed chair is a further enrichment of EMGO’s research on healthy aging that has such a strong foundation in the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam (LASA), with Dorly Deeg as its director and professor of epidemiology of the elderly, and Marjolein Visser as professor of Healthy Aging.
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