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8TH MEDICA MEDICINE + SPORTS CONFERENCE
18/19 NOVEMBER 2020
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8TH MEDICA MEDICINE + SPORTS CONFERENCE
18/19 NOVEMBER 2020 Agenda Day 1 // 18 November 2020
DÜSSELDORF GERMANY 13:00 – 13:10 h
Conference welcome
Horst Giesen, Director Global Portfolio Health and Medical Technologies, Messe Düsseldorf
GmbH
The MEDICA MEDICINE + SPORTS CONFERENCE, was founded in 2013 at MEDICA, the world´s largest medical trade Moderated by Christian Stammel, CEO and Founder of WT Wearable Technologies Group
show with more than 120,000 visitors and 5,500 exhibitors. The 8th MEDICA MEDICINE + SPORTS CONFERENCE will 13:10 – 13:40 h
Keynote
take place on 18th and 19th of November 2020 in Düsseldorf.
by Prof. Dr. Dirk Brockmann - Professor for Theoretical Biology, Humboldt University Berlin,
The conference has established as the leading interdisciplinary exchange platform between international sports Institute of Epidemiological Modeling of Infectious Diseases, Robert Koch Institute:
medicine experts, sports scientists and sport techies, the sporting goods and healthcare industries. The platform “Perspectives of digital epidemiology - Opportunitiers, promises and challenges”
fosters new exchange formats, new sport medical therapies, and innovations in prevention, recovery and rehabilitation.
During two consecutive days and six sessions, international experts present the latest findings and innovations:
13:40 – 15:40 h
Session 1 - Future concepts in sports medicine
Space Medicine - Performance - Artificial Intelligence
SESSION 1 - Future Concepts in Sports Medicine Prof. Volker Damann - Professor for Human Performance in Space, International Space
Space Medicine - Performance - Artificial Intelligence University Strasbourg:
“Doc, we have a problem – The challenges of space medicine“
SESSION 2 - Innovation Tour MEDICA Karl Schwarzenbrunner - Head of Education and Science, German Ice Hockey Federation:
“Performance and regeneration in German ice hockey – New ways of using data and AI“
SESSION 3 - Tailored Exercise Programs Dr. med. Lutz Graumann - President of Performance Medicine Association, Consultant,
Personalization - BioPsychoSocial Model - Digitization - Movement Analysis German Ice Hockey Federation:
“Why the future of medicine will be driven by learnings from formula 1 racing?”
SESSION 4 - Evidence-Based Diagnostics and Wearable Technologies
Florian Mennigen - Clinical Psychologist, Private Lecturer, Former Team Rowing Athlete,
Sports Cardiology - Wearables - Vital Data Monitoring Olympic and World Champion, Witten/ Herdecke University:
SESSION 5 - Sports in Times of Highly Infectious Viral Diseases “Building winning teams – Psychological aspects of high performance teams”
Prof. Dr. Björn Eskofier - Professor for Digital Support Systems in Sports and Medical Engi-
and Polluted Environments
neering, Head of Machine Learning and Data Analytics Lab, University Erlangen-Nuerenberg:
Epidemiology - Prevention of Viral Disease Transmission -
“Digital twins in sports”
COVID-19 Effects on Performance - Particulate Matter and Health
Prof. Dr. Roger Abächerli - Professor for Medical Engineering, Lucerne University of Applied
SESSION 6 - Digital Innovations in Sports & Healthcare Sciences and Arts:
“Artifical Intelligence in Medicine – Why diagnostic screening is an interesting use case”
15:40 – 16:00 h
Networking, coffee break
16:00 – 17:15 h
Session 2 - Innovation tour MEDICA
17:15 – 18:15 h
Networking and get-together
Accredited
18:15 h
End of day 1 of 8th MEDICA MEDICINE + SPORTS CONFERENCE
with
The conference is accredited with 3 CME points on
18 November and 6 CME points on 19 November. 9 CME
points
Participation in the MEDICA MEDICNE + SPORTS CONFERENCE at the Congress Center Düsseldorf (CCD South) is
subject to a fee and requires a separate ticket order and registation. The conference ticket includes admission to the
MEDICA/COMPAMED trade fair and to all MEDICA/COMPAMED forums that take place in the exhibition halls.
Ticket Info:
• 2-day ticket, 18 + 19 November: 159 EUR
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Agenda Day 2 // 19 November 2020 15:30 – 16:30 h
Session 5 - Sports in times of highly infectious viral diseases and
polluted environments
Epidmiology - Prevention of Viral Disease Transmission - Covid-19 Effects
10:00 – 12:45 h
Session 3 - Tailored exercise programs on Performance - Particulate Matter and Health
Prof. Dr. med. Wilhelm Bloch - Head of Department for Molecular & Cellular Sports Medicine,
Personalization - BioPsychoSocial Model - Digitization - Movement Analysis
German Sports University Cologne:
Dr. med. Peter Brucker - Adj. Professor, Team Physician German Skiing Team, “COVID-19 and return to sports”
Medical Director, MVZ ATOS Clinics Munic
Dr. Ulrich Jerichow - CEO, VitaScale:
& Dr. med. Ralf Doyscher - Team Physician Borussia Monchengladbach, Department for
“Systems for infection protection in professional sports”
Sports Medicine Charité, University Berlin:
Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Münzel - Chief of the Department of Cardiology at the University Medi-
“The role of modern injectables in high performance sports like football and skiing”
cal Center, University Mainz, Centre for Cardiology:
Prof. Dr. Borja Muniz - Professor for Exercise Physiology, FIMS CCSM, University Zaragoza:
“Environmental hazards and cardiovascular disease: It’s time to act”
“The example of blood flow restriction exercise”
Dr. med. Theodora Papadopoulou - Consultant in Sport & Exercise Medicine; Consultant
Orthopaedic Surgeon, Secretary General EFSMA; Executive Board BASEM, Defence Medical
Rehabilitation Center Loughborough: 16:30 – 17:30 h
Session 6 - Digital innovations in sports & healthcare
„The BioPsychoSocial model in sports medicine – how to implement a multidisciplinary Presented by innovative startups
approach“
Dr. Silvia Kolossa - Education Manager Personalized Nutrition, Technical University Munich:
Dr. Holger Hendrichs - VP, greenTEG:
„Personalized nutrition for elite athletes – real life case studies”
“Core body temperature – Fill the gap in sport performance science”
Dr. Katharina Schöttl - Adj. Professor, German University of Health and Sports:
Ben McNamara - Head of Education EMEA, Theragun:
“The effects of the digitalization on active sports consumption and training and coaching”
„Percussive therapy - The new wave in performance and recovery“
Kathrin Neuhofer - Sport Scientist, Head of Performance Development, International Football
Ali Kord - COO, AiQ Synertial:
Institute
“Coming to pro surfing – Full body motion capture and analysis”
& Fee Beyer - Former Professional Swimmer, CEO, SportsTech Germany:
Nico Kaartinen - Managing Director, Kaasa Solution:
“New technologies in professional football – Current trends in the German Bundesliga”
“Synchronised mobile movement analysis with inertial measurement units, video. Exam-
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stephan Odenwald - Professor and Researcher of physical man-machine in-
ples from beach volleyball and figure skating”
teraction and Sports Engineering, Chair Sports Equipment Technology, Technical University
Harald Freitag - CEO/CTO, movX:
Chemnitz:
“Sensor based movement analysis and tailored training programs”
“Next generation in movement analysis and implications on training and injury prevention”
Vercauteren Koen - Founder & Headcoach, ledsreact
12:45 – 13:45 h
Networking, lunch & exhibition break & Dr. Kristof De Mey - Sports Technology, Innovation & Business Developer, Ghent University
- Victoris SportUp:
13:45 – 15:30 h
Session 4 - Evidence-based diagnostics and wearable “The future of sports technology and its application in agility training”
technologies
Sports Cardiology - Wearables - Vital Data Monitoring 17:30 – 17:40 h
Summary & closing remarks
Prof. Dr. med. Jürgen Scharhag - Head Department of Sports Medicine, Exercise Physiology
and Prevention, Centre for Sport Science, University of Vienna:
“Exercise testing in sports cardiology”
Dr. med. Christian Werner - Adj. Professor, Specialist for Internal Medicine, Senior Consul-
tant, University Hospital Homburg:
“Telomers - A novel link between cardiovascular health and disease”
Prof. Dr. Yannis Pitsiladis - Professor of Sport and Exercise Science, IOC Medical and Scientif-
ic Commission Member, Chair of Scientific Commission FIMS, University Brighton:
“Establishing a global standard for wearable devices in sport and fitness: Perspectives from
FIMS and EFSMA”
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Götze - Professor for Electrical Engineering & Information Technology,
University Dortmund:
“Technologies measuring sleep – Overview and opportunities in healthcare and sports”
Dr. med. Noé Karl Brasier - Clinical Researcher, Chief Medical Information Office, University
Hospital Basel:
“Sweat as a source of next generation digital biomarkers - the rise of Internet-enabled
sudorology”
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SPEAKERS & EXPERT COMMITTEE
Prof. Dr. Roger Abächerli Speaker Dr. med. Peter Brucker Speaker
Prof. Dr. Roger Abächerli has graduated as electrical engineer from the Swiss Federal Institute of Dr. med. Peter Brucker is an internationally renowned sports orthopedic specialist with focus on
Technology Lausanne (EPFL). He studied at the Georgia Institute of Technology (GaTech), Atlanta, USA minimally invasive, regenerative, and reconstructive knee surgery, muscle-tendon surgery at the
and University College of Dublin (UCD), Ireland and did his PhD at the department of radiology at the lower extremity, and orthobiologic sports medicine. He is the leading team physician of the German Ski
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Nancy, France. He got several international awards and currently is National Team Alpine (DSV) and physician of many elite athletes in football and various Olympic sports.
senior member of the IEEE, fellow of the American Heart Association (AHA), the American College of His scientific studies focus on the prevention and rehabilitation (back-to-sports) of conservatively or
Cardiology (ACC) and the European society of cardiology (ESC). He has worked for 16 years in the medtech surgically treated sports injuries of the knee joint and muscle-tendon injuries in professional, amateur
industry, latest as global head of biomedical research and signal processing and is now professor at as well as in recreational sports. He published more than 100 manuscripts in medical journals and
the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Art for medical technology, senior lecturer at BFH and he presented more than 400 lectures internationally including live operations and instructor activities.
research associate at the Cardiovascular Research Institute (CRIB) of the University Hospital Basel. Since 2016, he has been listed amongst the Focus top100 in the field of “sports orthopedics”.
Fee Beyer Speaker Prof. Volker Damann Speaker
Starting her career as a professional swimmer, Fee Beyer works at the intersection of technology Prof. Volker Damann has dedicated his career to Aerospace medicine. Starting in 1989 he served for 6
and Pro Sports coaching. Fee scouts, validates and eventually distributes Sport technologies like years as a space flight surgeon at the German Aerospace Research Center in 8 Shuttle and 2 Soyuz/MIR
athlete monitoring- and management systems to coaches of Bundesliga teams, sports federations, missions. In 1995 he became the lead flight surgeon and in 1998 the head of the crew medical support office
Tour de France teams and many more. Amongst others, Fee conducted the current research about at the European Astronaut Center of the European Space Agency (ESA) in Cologne. In 2016 he became full
the use of new technologies in the german soccer league for the first time in 2017. Fee presents and professor for “Human Performance in Space” at the International Space University in Strasbourg. Volker
hosts tech and sports conferences on a regular basis and has a broad knowledge and network in the is also a visiting lecturer at the Technical Universities in Dresden and Berlin and developed a new master
sports startups industry. Fee holds different coaching qualifications with special emphasis on athletic program “Space Physiology and Health”with King’s college, London. He is an AsMA Fellow since 2014,
performance training. member of the AsMA Executive Committee and Vice President “International Services” since 2017. Volker
Damann retired from ESA in September 2020 and remains a faculty member of the ISU.
Prof. Dr. med. Wilhelm Bloch Speaker Dr. Kristof De Mey Speaker
Prof. Dr. med. Wilhelm Bloch is a professor at the German Sport University Cologne and the head of Dr. Kristof De Mey is a Sports Tech, Innovation & Business Developer at Ghent University, managing
the Department of Molecular and Cellular Sport Medicine at the Institute of Cardiovascular Research various projects within Victoris. He is also the Program Manager of SportUp, the Flemish accelerator
and Sport Medicine. A recipient of the venia legendi for anatomy and cell biology, University of Cologne in collaboration with imec.istart. He recently launched the Sports Tech Research Network (STRN),
2000 (best habilitation 2000 at the medical faculty), he derived the additional membership of the focusing on the best Sports, Tech & Business scientists and research driven professionals within
Medical Faculty of the University of Cologne 2005. He has served as chairman of the scientific board sport.
and Vice President of the German Sports Medicine Society DGSP from 2011-2018, and a member of
the Scientific Committee of the European College of Sport Science from 2012-2016. Since 2020 he is
editor in chief of the journal “Translational Medicine and Exercise Prescription”.
Dr. med. Noé Karl Brasier Speaker Dr. med. Ralf Doyscher Speaker
Dr. med. Noé Karl Brasier is a clinical researcher at the Chief Medical Information Office, Department Dr. med. Ralf Doyscher is specialist for orthopedics, trauma surgery and non-surgical sport
Digitalization & ICT of the University Hospital Basel (CH). He focuses on the investigation of sweat orthopedics. He is full-time team doctor of the German first league soccer club „Borussia VFL 1900
as a clinical bio-fluid, as sweat hosts a broad range of metabolic compounds. While running trials at Mönchengladbach“. Dr. Doyscher is specialist in diagnostics, treatment and prevention of muscle
the University Hospital Basel that are primarily focusing on sweat analysis in Infectious Diseases, Dr. injuries, as well as the non-surgical treatment of cartilage defects in athletes. One of his main foci is
med. Noé Brasier has been investigating the clinical potential of sweat as a source of next-generation musculoskeletal sonography as well as ultrasound guided injection techniques. He studied in Germany,
digital biomarkers. With his recent publication on “Sweat as a source of next-generation digital South Africa and the US and successfully graduated with the German as well as all US federal licensing
biomarkers”, he founded the area of internet-enabled Sudorology, the expertise of sweat analysis examinations (USMLE). He completed his studies in orthopedic and trauma surgery at the Centre for
using smartphone-based biosensors. Musculoskeletal Surgery (CMSC) at Charité, Berlin. During his time in Berlin he worked as team doctor of
1. FC Union Berlin, Füchse Berlin as well as for several German Olympic federations and national teams.
Prof. Dr. Dirk Brockmann Speaker Prof. Dr. Bjoern Eskofier Speaker
Prof. Dr. Dirk Brockmann studied theoretical physics and mathematics at Duke University and Prof. Dr. Bjoern Eskofier is German Research Foundation (DFG) funded Heisenberg Professor for
the University of Göttingen where he also received his PhD in 2003. After postdoctoral positions “Digital Support Systems in Sports and Medical Engineering”. He heads the Machine Learning and
at the Max-Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization he became Professor for Applied Data Analytics Lab and the Institute for Medical Engineering at the Friedrich-Alexander-University
Mathematics at Northwestern University, USA, before he returned to Germany where he now holds Erlangen-Nuernberg (FAU). Currently, his lab has 40 co-workers, who do research in machine
a joint position in the Department of Biology at Humboldt University of Berlin and the Robert Koch- learning for wearable systems in sports and healthcare. Dr. Eskofier authored more than 180 peer
Institute. Brockmann’s research is transdisciplinary and integrates areas such as computational reviewed articles, submitted 6 patent applications, started three spinoff startup companies, and won
social science, evolutionary processes, complex network science, migration, human mobility and several medtech research awards. He was a visiting professor at Harvard Medical School (2016)
the dynamics of infectious diseases. He pioneered the use of large-scale, high-resolution datasets and MIT (2018). His research and entrepreneurial agenda revolves around contributions to a Digital
obtained in natural experiments to investigate aspects of human behaviour. Health Ecosystem, where patients are connected to other stakeholders within the healthcare system
using digital support tools.
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Harald Freitag Speaker Nico Kaartinen Speaker
Harald Freitag studied informatics and technology management with a diploma in engineering at Nico Kaartinen is a serial entrepreneur since 2001. Responsible for the Games company Taito’s
the University of Stuttgart. He devoted himself to various competitive sports, like basketball, martial mobile business in Europe from 2005-2008. Founded Kaasa Health GmbH and Kaasa Home
arts and triathlon. During his studies he worked as freelancer for IVS Engineering and developed Automation GmbH in 2008. Part of the founding team of Medisana Space Technologies GmbH in 2009
his passion for movement analysis/optimization besides bio-feedback tracking. Three years ago for the first mobile health platform named VitaDock in der German market. Since 2017 creation of
he founded movX together with Thomas Steiger, his former mentor at IVS. This passion became a specialized sports and healthcare applications on the basis of Movesense sensors as well as artificial
lifestyle-concept. intelligence implementation (AI) on the basis of the sensor data.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Götze Speaker Vercauteren Koen Speaker
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jürgen Götze received his Dipl.-Ing. and Dr.-Ing. degrees in Electrical Engineering Vercauteren Koen is a passionate athlete and followed his dream after his long military career by
from Technical University of Munich in 1987 and 1990, respectively. He held research positions at founding Ledsreact. During several missions abroad he realized how important agility is in reacting
the Computer Science Department of Yale University (1991-1992) and with the DSP group of the quickly to unexpected situations to increase chances of survival. So, he is a strong believer that agility
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Rice University (1995-1996). He is Professor for training makes a crucial contribution to individual actions in team sports. After studying various
Information Processing at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of sports scientific papers and following courses such as sports neurology, he made Ledsreact one of
TU Dortmund University. the references in the field of agility training. Koen also loves a good chat, so feel free to talk to him.
His interests include signal and array processing, biomedical sensor signal processing, wireless
communications, and parallel algorithms and architectures. The algorithms are also implemented
and integrated in system-on-chip components.
Dr. med. Lutz Graumann Speaker & Expert Committee Dr. rer. nat. Silvia Kolossa Speaker
Dr. med. Lutz Graumann is a specialist in Sports Medicine, Nutrition and Chirotherapy with focus Dr. rer. nat. Silvia Kolossa is Education Manager for Personalized Nutrition at LOEWI GmbH. She is
on performance enhancement. He is President of the Association of Performance Medicine, founder responsible for scientific workshops and product information as well as medical customer support.
of Sportmedizin Rosenheim and Quest Vitality, team physician of the German Icehockey Federation, She holds a BSc and MSc degree in nutrition sciences of the Technical University of Munich (TUM).
head of education at Blackroll, author of the bestselling books „REGENERATION“, “Functional Fascial During her PhD, she worked on one of the first multi-center studies on Personalized Nutrition, the
Training with Blackroll” and „GET FIT TO RUN“, and lecturer at the German Armed Forces Leadership “Food4Me” Proof-of-Principle Study, and as research associate she managed a study on personalized
Academy in Hamburg. He integrates sports and military medicine and cutting-edge technology to nutrition in Benin, West Africa. Next to her research activities, Silvia gained experience in customer
create data based movement, nutrition, recovery and mindset strategies for pro athletes, special services at a public relations agency, in pharma marketing and as project manager at a European
forces, fighter pilots and leadership groups. foundation for newborn care.
Dr. Holger Hendrichs Speaker Ali Kord Speaker
Dr. Holger Hendrichs is member of the management board at greenTEG AG. With greenTEG’s heat Ali Kord is an international expert in motion measurement and tracking. He sold his first full body
flux sensor technology it is possible to measure the core body temperature non-invasively and motion capture system in 1997. He is working on the development of a consumer sports mocap system
continously. today. Ali studied civil engineering but quickly moved into electronics. In 1989 he co-founded Ingolf Inc.,
the first PC-based golf simulator system and by 1995 developed the first inertial electromechanical
goniometric device to analyze the golf swing in real-time. Working closely with Kinetix in San Francisco,
Ali then veered the golf analyser towards the animation professionals and entertainment in general
which won Computer World Magazine’s most innovative product award for 1997. In 2005 he introduced
the first full body mocap system using only wearable IMUs and in 2011 introduced the first ever IMU-
only finger capture system which fathered the most accurate finger mocap system today.
Dr. Ulrich Jerichow Speaker Ben McNamara Speaker
Dr. Ulrich Jerichow is the founder and CEO of VitaScale. Ulrich Jerichow holds a PhD in Material Ben McNamara is an Australian born professional goalkeeper, currently living in the UK. During
Science, has more than 20 years’ experience as a CTO in various industries as well as top management Ben’s more than decade long career as a professional athlete he has endured some almost career
consultant for R&D / Operations. The foundation of VitaScale is based on his long lasting successful ending injuries and always searched for myofascial release tools to help him activate, recover and
triathlon career, during which he developed the idea to make existing high end methods of sports relieve pain. In April 2018 Ben met the founder and inventor of Theragun, Dr Jason Wersland. Since
medicine available to every end customer through a revolutionary product concept. then he has been working with Theragun to understand protocols in muscle activation, recovery, and
pain relief through high-frequency, high-amplitude neuromuscular percussive therapy. Ben’s role as
Head of Education in EMEA is to drive culture and education of percussive therapy.
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Florian Mennigen Speaker Dr. med. Theodora Papadopoulou Speaker
Florian Mennigen During the London 2012 Olympics, Florian Mennigen was part of the legendary Dr. med. Theodora Papadopoulou, MD, BSc, PGDip, MSc, PhD, FEBSM is a Consultant in Sport and
German rowing eight, which made fundamental changes after a disappointing last place at the 2008 Exercise Medicine and an orthopaedic surgeon. She is the Lead Consultant for Hip and Groin section,
Olympic Games. After this formative defeat, the team with Florian Mennigen remained unbeaten in and for the Military Hip Rehabilitation Outcome Study at the UK Defence Medical Rehabilitation
over 36 regattas in 4 years, won three World Championship titles and finally Olympic gold in London Centre, Stanford Hall. Since 1998, Dora has been a visiting lecturer for a range of Universities. She
2012. After his career, the psychologist worked for energy and telecommunications companies. Today is the Secretary of the Development Commission of the FIMS; the Secretary General of the European
he advises companies on change processes, is a licensed clinical psychologist, corporate health Federation of Sport Medicine Associations; and Executive Board Member of the British Association
ambassador and one of the most sought-after speakers at SPORT SPEAKER. of Sport and Exercise Medicine. She has also worked for various sports events, including Olympics,
Paralympics and Special Olympics. She is the Doctor for the International Ultramarathon Spartathlon
and the British Spartathlon team. Dr Papadopoulou has authored numerous papers in scientific
journals, and is a frequent conference speaker.
Prof. Dr. Borja Muniz-Pardos Speaker Prof. Dr. Yannis Pitsiladis Speaker
Prof. Dr. Borja Muniz-Pardos is a senior research fellow based at the FIMS Collaborating Centre of Prof. Dr. Yannis Pitsiladis was appointed (in 2013) Professor of Sport and Exercise Science at the
Sports Medicine at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. Borja completed his doctorate studies with the University of Brighton. Current research priority is the application of “omics” technologies to the detection
highest-level award as part of the GENUD (Growth, Exercise, Nutrition and Development) research of drugs in sport with particular reference to recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEpo), blood doping
group at the University of Zaragoza. His research to date has focused on human performance with and testosterone. His most recent research is funded by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), he is
particular focus on sports integrity and the investigation of ergogenic aids such as sports drinks, currently a member of the IOC Medical and Scientific Commission, Chair of the Scientific Commission
brain stimulation, altitude training, doping with erythropoietin, blood-flow restriction training and the of the International Sports Medicine Federation (FIMS), and has sat on two WADA committees. He is a
application of wearable technologies. His most recent research on the physiological and metabolic Fellow of the ACSM)and expert of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. He has
responses of blood-flow restriction training and its effectiveness as a training and rehabilitation published over 140 peer-reviewed papers, written and edited a number of books and has featured in
modality is being conducted in partnership with the World Olympians Association WOA. numerous research documentaries and popular books (e.g. Bounce, The Sports Gene).
Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Münzel Speaker Prof. Dr. med. Jürgen Scharhag Speaker
Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Münzel MD, is Chief of the Department of Cardiology at the University Medical Prof. Dr. med. Jürgen Scharhag is head of the Department of Sports Medicine, Exercise Physiology
Center, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany. He is an interventionist and also a vascular and Prevention at the Centre for Sports Science, University of Vienna. He started his clinical education
biologist and got his post doc training as a vascular biologist at the Institute of Applied Physiology, as a specialist in cardiology at the Johannes-Gutenberg-University in Mainz, which he completed at the
Professor Eberhard Bassenge, Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg and in the Laboratories of David G University Clinic of Heidelberg. His received his sports medical education at the Institute for Sports and
Harrison, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA with focus on endothelial function and oxidative stress. Preventive Medicine at Saarland University, where he served as deputy medical director, and founded
He is co-initiator of the Gutenberg Health Study, one of the largest prospective cohort trials worldwide the working group of sports cardiology in the German Society of Cardiology. From 2017-2018 he was
and was the founding director of the Center for Thrombosis and Hemostasis, CTH in Mainz. Since managing senior physician at the Center for Prevention and Sports Medicine at the Technical University
2011, his research group is focusing on environmental risk factors for cardiovascular disease with a Munich. His research focus is on the effects of sports on the heart. During his career, Prof. Scharhag
focus on aircraft noise and air pollution. took care of athletes in various national teams (rowing, triathlon, football) at international competitions.
Kathrin Neuhofer Speaker Dr. Katharina Schöttel Speaker
Kathrin Neuhofer is a Sport Scientist and the Head of Performance Development at the International Dr. Katharina Schöttl is working at the German University of Health and Sports and head of the
Football Institute. She is currently working on her PhD. Kathrin’s study focusses on developing criteria department of digital marketing at the International Football Institute, which is part of the same
for an optimized talent scouting, selection and development process combined with state-of-the- university network. Before her doctorate at the department of business administration at the Catholic
art prognostics in professional youth soccer. As part of her responsibilities as Head of Performance University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, she graduated with a Master degree in sports management. Her
Development, Kathrin counsels football clubs and federations throughout Europe. In addition, she current research, consulting and teaching topics focus on digitalization in sports.
is giving numerous lectures for football coaches, scouts, match and performance analysts to equip
them with the necessary tools and skills in the application of new technologies and innovations as
well as data analysis and interpretation.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stephan Odenwald Speaker Karl Schwarzenbrunner Speaker
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Stephan Odenwald is researcher in the field of physical man-machine interaction and Karl Schwarzenbrunner was employed as the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach in a variety of
Sports Engineering. After his graduation in 1997 (Mechanical Engineering) he received his PhD degree team and individual sports, before taking over the role as the Head of Education and Science at the
in 2001 in the field of lightweight composite structures. 2004 he was appointed assistant professor German Ice Hockey Federation (DEB). His main responsibility in this role is to evaluate and improve
and in 2011 full professor for Sports Equipment and Technology at Chemnitz University of Technology. upon the training and education system at the DEB. To achieve this, Karl Schwarzenbrunner regularly
His research interests are sensor-based characterization of man-machine-environment-interaction collaborates with German Universities, in order to develop strategies for the transfer of outcomes of
in field testing and mechanical simulations for testing sports equipment and medical devices. To scientific research into real-world practice. His most recent work has focussed on Regeneration, the
promote technology transfer he founded the Steinbeis Research-Center Human Centered Engineering use of Artificial Intelligence in sport, and the cognitive development of players.
in 2015, focussing on the development of measuring systems and data acquisition systems.
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Dr. med. Christian Werner Speaker Dr. med. Christian Schneider Expert Committee
Dr. med. Christian Werner, studied Medicine in Homburg, Saarland. He has specialized in internal Dr. med. Christian Schneider, MD PhD, is an orthopedic surgeon and specialist in sports medicine,
medicine and cardiology. He is senior cardiologist at the University Clinic of the Saarland, focused and former head of Back and Sports Orthopedic Institute in SCHÖN KLINIK Munic Harlaching. He is
on cardiac active rhythm devices and left ventricular assist device (LVAD) therapy, heart failure unit, the head of Orthopedic Center Theresie in Munich and a member of the Medical Expert Committee of
cardiopulmonary function tests and lipid disorders. His main research work deals with the unravelling the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB). Dr. Schneider is chairman and board member of
of molecular mechanisms of physical activity. Here, mouse as well as human training studies were several associations and federations, including GOTS (German Society for Orthopedic-Traumatologic
published in high-impact journals. The main finding of the research is, that in both, cross-sectional Sports Medicine), FIMS, as well as Head of DOSB-Sports physiotherapy for the German Oympic
studies on young ad well long-term endurance athletes, and prospective training studies in healthy Sports Confederation (DOSB). Dr. Schneider works as consultant of the Olympic Base Camp Bavaria
subjects starting an endurance training program in mid-age, telomere-associated proteins as well as and other sports organizations. He was part of the Olympic medical staff in the previous Olympics and
telomere length, are improved, suggesting an “anti-aging”effect of endurance exercise. also Medical Commission of the European Olympic Committee in 1st European Games in Baku 2015.
Prof. Dr. med. Norbert Bachl Expert Committee Prof. Dr. Ansgar Schwirtz Expert Committee
Prof. Dr. med. Norbert Bachl is professor at the Department of Sports and Exercise Physiology in Prof. Dr. Ansgar Schwirtz, Since 2002, Prof. Dr. Schwirtz is professor for biomechanics in Sports
the Centre for Sports Science and University Sports of the University of Vienna. Prof. Dr. Bachl also at the Technial Univerity Munich. He has been Dean of the Faculty of Sports and Health Sciences
serves as Director of the Austrian Institute for Sport Medicine, Vice President of FIMS and Honorary there since October 2013. After completing his postgraduate and doctoral studies at the DSHS in
President of EFSMA. In addition to this, he is a member of the Medical Commission of IOC, EOC, ÖOC Cologne, Schwirtz received his doctorate in “Movement Technology and Muscular Coordination in
and of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. Prof Dr. Bachl acts as the Head of the Medical Cross-Country Skiing”. Since 2019 he is the president of DVS, the german association for sport
Commission of the UCI. science.
Prof. Dr. med. Cindy Lin Expert Committee Christian Stammel Expert Committee
Prof. Dr. med. Cindy Lin, MD is a Sports Medicine and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Clinical Christian Stammel is founder and CEO of WT Wearable Technologies Group and Navispace AG. Born
Assistant Professor at University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA USA. She is an Exercise in 1969, he successfully enables innovation and cooperation in the Internet of Things and wearables
is Medicine (EIM) Emerging Leader as well as a member of the EIM Clinical Practice Committee for sector. Christian had already founded his first IT company during his university years, which went
the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM). She is Associate Editor of PM&R Journal. She public in 2000. He is one of the digital pioneers with a track record of over 20 years in IoT and has
practiced at the Changi Sports Medicine Centre, Singapore prior to joining University of Washington. created some world´s firsts including an ECG shirt in 2002. He advises some of the biggest tech
She has been involved in national and international sporting event coverage as well as published companies and organizes with his teams important networking platforms in the US, Europe, Asia and
journal articles and book chapters related to sports and exercise medicine. Australia.
Prof. Dr. med. Herbert Löllgen Expert Committee Prof. Dr. med. Jürgen Steinacker Expert Committee
Prof. Dr. med. Herbert Löllgen, FACC, FAHA, F.FIMS,F.UEMS Education in medicine and sports Prof. Dr. med. Jürgen Steinacker is professor of Sports and Rehabilitation Medicine at the Medical
sciences with State Doctorate MD 1968, Bonn, Germany. Specialist training in internal medicine, Center, University of Ulm and is appointed specialist for internal medicine, cardiology, rehabilitation
occupational and sports medicine at Universities of Mainz, Copenhagen (Bengt Saltin) and medicine and sports medicine. He is member of the World Anti-Doping-Agency`s Health Medical and
German Sports University, Cologne. Qualifications in Internal Medicine, Cardiology 1978 (European Research Committee; Vice-chair of the scientific committee, DGSP; Chair of the European Initiative
Cardiologist) , Preventive Medicine, Echocardiography, Lecturer: Gutenberg-University, Mainz (PhD). for Exercise in Medicine and chief editor of the German Journal of Sports Medicine. The division
Vice head cardiology dept. Freiburg Univ., Head of Department of Internal Medicine, Remscheid of Sports Medicine provides outpatient care in cardiology and general sports medicine, including
(1985-2008): Interventional Cardiology, Intensive Care Medicine, Pneumology, Sports Medicine. overtraining, fatigue syndromes and aging-related disorders, a rehabilitation center, a physiology,
Space Medicine Consultant for DLR,ESA, and NASA, Houston. Private practice since 2008 (Internal performance center and a molecular muscle laboratory. His population health promotion program
Medicine, Cardiology, Sports Cardiology. deals with physical activity and healthy lifestyle in primary school and kindergarten.
Prof. Dr. med. Rüdiger Reer Scientific Head of Program & Expert Committee
Prof. Dr. med. Rüdiger Reer is the Secretary General of the German Sports Medicine Association
DGSP (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sportmedizin und Prävention) and Deputy Director of exercise
science of Hamburg University, Germany. He is member of the DGSP, American College of Sports
Medicine, the European College of Sport Science and Hamburg Sports Medicine Association. Focus
of his research is on spiroergometry of swimmers in performance diagnostics, exercise therapies
for different disease patterns. In 2000, he won the International Science Award (ICSSPE) in Clinical
Sciences in Brisbane, Australia.
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