Tag: Gezond Dorp

Dr Hans van Kuijk is a consultant sports and exercise physician at St Anna Ziekenhuis hospital in Geldrop in the Netherlands. Since 2002, he has been chief medical officer of the hospital’s cardiac rehabilitation program. Dr Van Kuijk has been team doctor of elite athlete teams in basketball at national level and swimming and long-track speedskating at international level. In 2009 the hospital founded TopSupport in Eindhoven as a centre of excellence, specializing in optimal integrated care (prevention, diagnostics, cure, rehabilitation) for athletes of all levels. Since 2012, he has personally focused on lifestyle-related chronic diseases, more so after visiting South Africa for the 2015 Old Mutual Health Convention in Cape Town (LCHF summit). In 2016, he started the GezondDorp project with local GP Norbert van den Hurk in his home village of Leende. Dr Van Kuijk is building a new centre of excellence for preventative/integrative Lifestyle Medicine at the hospital. For more information, call +31 40 2864831, +31 40 2864144, email h.van.kuijk@st-anna.nl, visit the websites, https://www.st-anna.nl, https://www.topsupport.nl  or http://gezonddorp.nl, follow him on Twitter @sportsdochans   and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/GezondDorp/.