Keynote:

Professor Dr Sicco Bus is a human movement scientist and a professor of clinical biomechanics and principle investigator at the Amsterdam University Medical Center (UMC) in the Netherlands. Sicco completed his doctoral dissertation on the structural and functional aspects of the neuropathic foot in diabetes. In his work at the department of Rehabilitation Medicine at Amsterdam UMC, Sicco leads and supervises research on lower-extremity biomechanics and injury prevention in diabetes and sports. Sicco is a member of the board and program leader for Rehabilitation & Development of the Amsterdam Movement Sciences research institute. He is also member of the editorial board and past-chair of the Ulcer Prevention and Offloading Working Groups of the International Working Group on the Diabetic Foot (IWGDF) on guideline development. Sicco is chair of the study group of Neurovascular Complications of Diabetes in the Netherlands.