Cools ANN
Ann Cools is a physiotherapist, working as an associate professor at the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy at the Ghent University, Belgium. Her topic of research and teaching expertise, as well as her clinical work is shoulder rehabilitation in general, and sport specific approach and scapular involvement in particular. She finished her PhD in 2003, debating scapular involvement in sports related shoulder pain in the overhead athlete, and she has published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed international journals, contributions and chapters in several international recognized books, and gives courses on a national and international level. She is at present head of the Physical Therapy Education at the Ghent University, and was founding member and president of the European Society of Shoulder and Elbow Rehabilitation (EUSSER) 2008-2012.