!!!Willem van Mechelen
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__Present and Previous Positions__
*2025 - ongoing professor emeritus of Occupational and Sports Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Center, location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
*2022 - ongoing member non-executive board of NL Actief (member of Europe Active; i.e. the umbrella organisation of the European Fitness Industry)
*2022 - ongoing independent chairman of the ‘Stichting Beheer Certificatieregeling Arbodiensten’ and chairman of College of Experts of this foundation, on behalf of the Dutch Ministery of Social Affairs
*2021 - ongoing professor emeritus of Occupational and Sports Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Center, location VUmc
*2010 - ongoing visiting professor School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Population Sciences, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
*2012 - ongoing honorary professor Health through Physical Activity, Lifestyle and Sport Research Centre, Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa
*2009 - ongoing director-shareholder of De Bloeiende Lelie B.V. (personal holding), conducting ad hoc consultancy assignments for e.g. IOC, World Health Organisation,, Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs, etc..
*2007 - ongoing honorary professor School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
*2020 - 2024 non-executive board member Research School CaRe, Amsterdam the Netherlands
*1999 - 2024 Professor of Occupational and Sports Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Center, location Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (roles until 2018: department (vice-)head; vice-head of the division of Public Health and Primary Care; (vice-)director of the Research Institute EMGO, from 2015 named as Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute)
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__Fields of Scholarship__
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__Honours and Awards__
* Honours
**1997 Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine
**The prof. dr. Willem van Mechelen Prize for the best BSc-thesis for BSc-students of the Institute for Higher Vocational Studies (i.e. PE, Sports Management and Nutrition) of the University of Amsterdam/Hogeschool van Amsterdam was installed by the Board of the University of Amsterdam and was awarded to students in the period 2006 - 2016
**2006 Honorary professor of sports traumatology, Catholic University of Murcia, Spain
**2007 Fellow of the European College of Sports Sciences
**2007 - ongoing Honorary professor of Human Movement Studies, School of Human Movement studies, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 
**2010 - ongoing Visiting Honorary Professor School of Public Health, University College Dublin, Ireland
**2012 - ongoing Honorary professor in the Department of Human Biology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, Republic of South Africa
**2017 Honorary doctorate degree, awarded by the University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
**2017 Honorary member Royal Dutch Association of PE-teachers KVLO
**2018 Inducted in the Wall of Fame of the University of Applied Sciences of Amsterdam HvA
**2018 Honorary member Netherlands Society for Occupational Medicine NVAB
**2022 Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion, granted by the King of the Netherlands
* Awards
**Nominee Academic Year Prize 2008 of the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research and NRC Handelsblad
**2008 Nominee Media Prize of the VU University Amsterdam
**2008 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta, USA) Award for leadership in Physical Activity and Public Health 
**2010 Citation (=lifetime achievement) Award of the American College of Sports Medicine
**Burgerpenning 2011, Lifetime achievement award of the Netherlands Society for Occupational Medicine (NVAB) (awarded only twice since as a lifetime achievement award since its instalment in 1957)
**Profile Prize VUmc 2014 for the ‘Ik Herstel study’, award for an outstanding achievement of VU University Medical Center
**Most impactful publication in 2016, awarded by the American Heart Association
* Named lectures and opening keynote lectures
**1997 Heijermanslezing, Amsterdam Medical Center, The Netherlands
**2004 HJ Docter lecture, Amsterdam Medical Center, The Netherlands
**2007 Professor Josef Rutenfranz lecture, Paediatric Work Physiology bi-annual meeting, Tallinn, Estonia
**2007 Professor Jeremy Morris lecture, Department of Exercise, Nutrition and Health Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
**2010 Dr. Anton Leuftink lecture, Dutch Society for Occupational Physicians, Zeist, The Netherlands
**2011 Opening keynote lecture, ECCS annual conference, Liverpool
**2012 Exercise Is Medicine opening keynote lecture, ACSM annual meeting San Francisco
**2016 Opening keynote lecture, FIMS2016 World Congress of Sports Medicine, Slovenia
**2017 Opening keynote lecture, IOC injury prevention conference, Monaco
**2019 Leibniz lecture, Leibniz Kolleg, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany
*2020 HJ Docter lecture, Hoofddorp, The Netherlands
**2021 John Sutton lecture, ACSM annual meeting, Washington DC
**2023 Han Kemper lecture, PWP annual meeting, Cardiff, Wales
**2024 Opening keynote lecture, FIMS2024 World Congress of Sports Medicine, Dubae, UAE
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