The Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center aims to develop a national and international network of scientists and clinicians interested in sports injury prevention research, and organizes two annual internal seminars with international participation, where recent advances in the area are discussed.
Since May 2000, the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center has held semiannual seminars for the entire research staff. In addition to personnel from the center, 4-6 foreign and Norwegian senior researchers, experts within the field of sports medicine and injury prevention, are invited to join these seminars and to ensure a high quality evaluation of the center’s research activities.
At these seminars, PhD-students and research fellows present their projects, project ideas, or current results from parts of their (PhD) work. In this way, they get valuable experience in presenting and discussing their research in a friendly, albeit highly critical, environment.
These seminars are evaluated to be both successful and necessary to obtain high research quality, and they represent an important mile stone for specific projects as well as their project leaders.
The following international faculty has participated in these seminars:
May 2010: Heather McKay (Canada), Karim Kahn (Canada), Domhnall MacAuley (Northern Ireland), Evert Verhagen (Netherlands)
May 2009: Jiri Dvorak (Switzerland), Jari Parkinen (Finland), Eva Roos (Denmark), Steven Blair (USA)
May 2008: Martin Schwellnus (South Africa), Paul McCrory (Australia), Bengt Saltin (Denmark), Michael Fogelholm (Finland)
May 2007: Heather McKay (Canada), Karim Kahn (Canada), Håkon Alfredson (Sweden), Michael Kjær (Denmark), Sandra Shultz (USA)
May 2006: Jack Lewis (USA), Jos Twisk (Netherland), Colin Boreham (UK), Håkon Alfredson (Sweden).
May 2005: Rob Herbert (Australia), Willem van Mechelen (Netherland), Domhnall MacAuley (Northern Ireland)
May 2004: Jan Ekstrand (Sweden), Jimmy Slauterbeck (USA), Tom Best (USA), Gijs Langevoort (Netherland)
November 2003: Astrid Junge (Switzerland), Per Hölmich (Denmark)
May 2003: Tim Hewett (USA), Lynn Snyder-Mackler (USA), Veit Senner (Germany), Carolyn Emery (Canada)
November 2002: Bill Garrett (USA), Bert Mandelbaum (USA)
May 2002: Willem Meeuwisse (Canada), Michael Kjær (Denmark), Colin W. Fuller (UK)
November 2001: Bruce Beynnon (USA), Paul McCrory (Australia), Ejnar Eriksson (Sweden), Suzanne Werner (Sweden), Nils Wedderkopp (Denmark)
May 2001: Patria Hume (New Zealand), Jon Karlsson (Sweden)
November 2000: Karim Khan (Canada), Jack L. Lewis (USA), Per Renstrøm (Sweden)
May 2000: Robert E. Leach (USA), Willem van Mechelen (Netherland)