Contact: efsht89@gmail.com
Chair of Website Committee: Secretary 2022-2023
Name: Cigdem Oksuz
Nationality: Turkish
Education: 1999 Physiotherapist - 2009 PhD Occupational Therapy
Work experience as PT:
- 1999-2012 Research Assistant, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
- 2012-2018 Assistant Professor, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
- 2018- now Professor, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
Assignments:
- 2017- 2022 President of the Turkish Society of Hand Therapists
- 2018- 2022 EFSHT delegate of the Turkish Society of Hand Therapists
- 2015- present Member of organising committee national hand therapy congress Turkey
- 2013-2017 Assistant Editor for Turkish Journal of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation
- 2017- present Assistant Editor for Turkish Journal of Occupational Therapy and Rehabilitation
- 2021- present Member of the Editorial Board of Hand Therapy Journal.
Member of the website committee
Name: Paul De Buck
Nationality: Belgian
Education: 2004 Msc. Physiotherapist - 2008 Msc. Manual Therapy
Work experience as PT:
- 2004-2005 independent physiotherapists at different locations.
- 2005-2007 University Hospital Ghent part-time as general physiotherapist and part-time at the hand rehabilitation center.
- 2007-2010 Manual Therapist/Hand therapist at a private practice.
- 2010-2019 Hand therapist at the Hand and Wrist Rehabilitation Center in Goes, the Netherlands.
- 2019 - present, Hand therapist and manager at the Hand and Wrist Rehabilitation Center in Terneuzen, the Netherlands.
Assignments:
- 2007-Present: practical assistant/lector at Ghent University, Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy.
- 2007-2012 European and International delegate of the Belgian Hand Therapists.
- 2012 Congress President-Organizer of the European Hand Therapy Day.
- 2012 Webmaster of the Belgian Hand Therapists.
- 2013-present Organiser en Main Coördinator of Ghent Hand Therapy Course at Ghent University, ACREHAB
- 2012-2022 Secretary of the European Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy
- 2022-present member of the Website Committee of the European Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy
