The EMGO+ annual meeting is underway

Today we have our annual meeting of the EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research. The entire day is focussed on measurement, which is, of course, one of the cores of scientific research and progress. As Baron Kelvin said: "if you cannot measure it, then it is not science". But measurement comes in many different ways, and to quote another icon of science -Einstein-: "not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be conted. Our program today is about computer adaptive testing, on using smart phones in measurement, on applying registrations, etc. This program was designed by Dr. Caroline Terwee, the coordinator of the Knowledge Center for Measurement of the EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research.

At the end of the meeting the societal impact and science awards were granted and celebrated, and the EMGO+ junior fellows, i.e. the mid-career researchers within the institute that are supported by EMGO+ with personal post-doctoral grants to boost their research careers - were interviewed (see photo), as well as the junior researchers who received travel grants to establish international collaborations.
Ludeke Lambeek recieved the science award for her paper in the British Medical Journal on the economic evaluation of integrated care for low back pain patients.
Hanneke Wijnhoven received the societal impact award for her work in developing, testing and disseminating the SNAQ questionnaire to detect undernutrition in the elderly.