Prof. Dr. Hans Tol

Hans Tol (MD PhD, sports medicine physician) is a sports medicine physician at the Amsterdam UMC and A.F.C. Ajax. He leads sports injury prevention and (regenerative) treatment research at Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Sports Medicine at the AUMC. Hans is director of Amsterdam Movement Sciences (A UMC) and visiting professional at the IOC Research Centre in Qatar. Through his international network he supervise(s)(d) PhDs in The Netherlands, Qatar, Norway and Denmark. Current consortium leadership includes the NWO granted (850 K) “The State of the Cartilage (START) project” (NWO and the Dutch Arthritis Society invest in innovation for the early detection of osteoarthritis | NWO). He has authored over 160 peer-reviewed papers, including senior authorships in the NEJM and JAMA. Somewhere in a previous century, Hans played six years for De Graafschap and became Dutch champion with the “Gelders KNVB selectieteam”. Currently he is involved in a typical Dutch old man’s sport (recreational cycling).