PARTNERS AND TEAM MEMBERS

Anne-Marie Willems has the role of the tester for the Leuven team. She works as a research assistant at the Faculty of Movement and Rehabilitation Sciences of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Concurrently she is engaged in a PhD in rehabilitation and Parkinson’s disease (PD). Her PhD will cover the effects of auditory cueing on gait characteristics in PD for straight line walking and during turning. She will also address the postural abnormalities in PD and the effect of correction of posture on the biomechanical efficiency of gait.

She received her physiotherapy degree at the University of Leuven, after finishing her thesis titled “Bimanual control in Parkinson disease’s patients with deep brain stimulation”. After graduating, she pursued her interest in neurology by following an additional specialization year of Neurological rehabilitation. In the course of her 5-year study she spent 6 months in Germany for practical training in 3 specialized centers; the Kiliani Klinik in Bad-Windsheim, the Fachklinik in Ichenhausen and the Terapiezentrum in Burgau. When finishing her studies in the summer of 2000 she started to work as a physiotherapist in the stroke unit of the University hospitals of Leuven. In the interval of two months after the end of her contract and before entering the Rescue project, she travelled to Chile where she worked voluntarily as a physiotherapist in 2 hospitals.

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