P Calders
Ghent
Belgium

Patrick Calders, Dr. Sc, is a Physiologist and head of the section “Rehabilitation and Physiotherapy of Internal Diseases” at the departement “Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy Ghent”, Arteveldehogeschool/University of Ghent, Belgium.
Prof. Dr. Calders received his phD degree in Biological Sciences at the Catholic University of Leuven in 1997 with a manuscript entitled: “Influence of fasting and diabetes on the hypothalamo-pituitary-gonadal axis and adrenal cortex activity in the adult rat”. He started his educational and research work in Rehabilitation Sciences in 1998 as docent in the department of Physiotherapy at the Arteveldehogeschool, Ghent, Belgium.
Dr Calders is actively involved in research, education and patient care in Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy. At the moment he is supervising several PhD students, working in two main research fields, metabolic diseases (obesity and diabetes) and genetic connective tissue diseases, Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. His area of expertise is evaluation of exercise capacity and effects of training therapy in (extremely) obese and diabetic patients in adults as well as children, without and with mental retardation.
He has published several manuscripts in peer-reviewed Journals. His area of expertise is evaluation of exercise capacity and effects of training therapy in (extremely) obese and diabetic patients in adults as well as children, without and with mental retardation.