Board of Directors 2009-2011
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President:
Tom Welsh, PhD (USA)
Vice President/President-Elect:
Emma Redding (UK)
Treasurer:
Marika Molnar, PT, LAc (USA)
Past President:
Boni Rietveld, MD, BA(mus) (Netherlands)
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Members-at-Large:
Gayanne Grossman, PT, EdM (USA)
Nancy Kadel (USA)
Janet Karin (Austrsalia)
Yiannis Koutedakis, PhD (Greece)
Helen Laws (UK)
Peter Lewton-Brain, DO, MA (Monaco)
Moira McCormack, PT (UK)
Ruth Solomon, BA (USA)
Virginia Wilmerding, PhD (USA)
Matthew Wyon, PhD (UK)
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Board Members-at-Large
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Gayanne Grossman, PT, EdM
Gayanne Grossman PT, EdM, is a physical therapist for dancers and an Associate Instructor of Anatomy and Kinesiology at Muhlenberg College and Temple University. She holds a BFA in Dance and a BS in Physical Therapy from the University of Utah. She has an EdM in Dance Education from Temple University where she conducted Ph.D. studies. Her professional experience includes: physical therapy services for the University of Utah Departments of Ballet and Modern Dance, the Pennsylvania Ballet, Muhlenberg College Department of Theater and Dance, Temple University Department of Dance, and the Princeton Ballet School. Her teaching experience includes modern dance technique for the University of Utah Department of Continuing Education, Dance Kinesiology for Temple University and Muhlenberg College Departments of Dance, conditioning, and injury prevention classes and workshops for various dance schools and summer programs including the Rock School of the Pennsylvania Ballet and the Princeton Ballet School. She has conducted original research on conditioning programs which enhance dance performance and methods to validate turnout measurement. Gayanne has authored several papers and a book chapter on subjects such as physical therapy for dancers, management of dance injuries, advocating for dance science education and dance specific conditioning. She lectures nationally and internationally on dance medicine and science. She served as a Content Expert for the American Physical Therapy Association’s (APTA) Performing Arts Practice Analysis, as the Chair of the Nominating Committee and on the Board of Directors for the APTA Performing Arts Special Interest Group. Gayanne serves as the Co-Editor, with Marliese Kimmerle, PhD, for the IADMS Bulletin for Teachers.
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Nancy Kadel, MD
[Coming soon...]
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Janet Karin
Following her career as a Principal Dancer of The Australian Ballet, Janet devised her own teaching system and trained many outstanding dancers, choreographers and teachers. She developed a series of 'exemplary' dance studies courses at tertiary and secondary level and lectured at the undergraduate and post-graduate level at the University of Sydney, the Australian National University, and the University of Melbourne. She has published a variety of papers and studies in dance training, dance education, and cultural development and has received awards for direction, teaching, and services to dance, including the Medal of the Order of Australia. Janet has worked extensively within the areas of cultural development and arts funding and has designed and facilitated national and international courses, conferences, and workshops for the dance profession. She has undertaken several consultancies in Asia and in 2002 she directed a workshop for The Royal Ballet's resident choreographers. Janet also gives lectures and workshops on injury prevention and somatic education in The Australian Ballet School's national information-sharing program and to major teaching organisations throughout Australia. Janet’s present work as Kinetic Educator at The Australian Ballet School focuses on refining movement efficiency through imagery and tactile feedback. Her research interests include the role of imagery in alignment and motor efficiency, in abdominal and spinal stability, and in body perception. Janet has devised orthotics for pointe work, proprioceptive insoles, and unstable barbells for training dynamic spinal stability. Janet has attended all IADMS Annual Meetings since 2002 and has regularly presented papers since 2003. She chaired the host consortium for the 2007 IADMS Annual Meeting in Australia. She is a member of the IADMS Education Committee and is Chair of the Education Committee's 'Resource Paper' and 'Poster' Sub-Committees.
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Yiannis Koutedakis, PhD
Yiannis is a Professor in Exercise Physiology at the University of Thessaly, Greece and a visiting Professor at Wolverhampton University, UK. Formerly an elite sportsman and national coach (in Greece & UK) Yiannis was also involved in dance both as an elite dancer and professional teacher. He was one of the founders of the British Olympic Medical Centre, where he worked with various Olympic Squads, as well as professional dancers. Yiannis has also taught exercise physiology in the London Contemporary Dance School, English National Ballet School, and was in charge of two comprehensive research programmes commissioned by Dance UK and Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Leeds, UK. His research interests include testing, monitoring and improving human physical fitness. Yiannis has published 266 papers in books, scientific journals, and professional magazines in English, Greek, Italian and French. He is a member of 9 international professional bodies.
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Helen Laws
Helen Laws has been manager of Dance UK’s Healthier Dancer Programme (London, UK) since 1998. As part of this role she has organized conferences, events and talks; produced publications and information sheets; and facilitated and carried out research in the areas of dance health and science with the aim of disseminating information and providing educational and development opportunities for dancers, choreographers, dance managers and teachers. She manages networks for dance medicine practitioners and researchers and dance professionals, encouraging communication across disciplines and providing a point of contact in the UK for those seeking advice or expertise in dance medicine and science. Helen has studied ballet, tap, modern and contemporary dance since early childhood and completed a BA(Hons) Degree in Dance at Roehampton University, London, in 1996. She also has a Diploma in Arts Management. She is the author of Fit to Dance 2 – The report of the second national inquiry into dancers’ health and injury in the UK, the findings of which she presented at the IADMS Annual Meeting in San Francisco in 2004. Helen has served on the IADMS Education Committee since 2001.
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Peter Lewton-Brain, DO, MA
Born in London but raised in East Africa and the USA, Peter trained as a dancer at the School of American Ballet and with Margaret Craske in NYC. After performing with various American companies he became a principal dancer with the National Ballet of Portugal and Ballets de Monte-Carlo. Studying pedagogy with Marika Besobrasova, Peter carried on to teach professional European companies, schools in Monte-Carlo, Cannes as well as dance history, anatomy and ballet at the European-Institute of Technology and the University of Nice. Beyond a BA and MA in the performing Arts, a DO and Swiss DOE Peter has also trained in Pilates Rehabilitation. Along with a private practice in Monaco, bringing him to work closely with the Ballets de Monte-Carlo he is the the resident osteopath at the École Supérieure de Danse Cannes, Rosella Hightower Speaking French, Italian, Portuguese and English, he has also published articles in Dance Now, Danza & Danza and Dance Magazine. An IADMS member since 2001 and Education Committee member since 2003, Peter has made presentations at the last three IADMS Annual Meetings. Peter serves as Editor of the IADMS Newsletter.
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Moira McCormack, PT
After a 12 year professional dance career Moira McCormack, PT, MSc, retrained in Physiotherapy, specialising in dance, particularly injury prevention. She works with vocational dance students and professional dancers and lectures internationally to dance teachers on anatomy, technique and injury prevention. She has an MSc in Sports Physiotherapy and has worked for The Royal Ballet Company since 2002 as Head of Physiotherapy, creating full interdisciplinary care for the company. Education of dancers is a major interest, and research is continued despite a busy department. She has attended IADMS conferences since 1998 and has presented six times. Over the years of attending IADMS meetings she has come to rely on the support, encouragement, inspiration and friendship gained from fellow professionals and appreciates that IADMS provides an invaluable opportunity to learn and share in a specialized field.
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Ruth Solomon, Professor Emeritus
As a performer Ruth Solomon has appeared on and off Broadway, on television, and in concerts throughout the United States, Canada, and Japan. She was for many years a permanent member and solo dancer with the Jean Erdman Dance Theater. Ms. Solomon has choreographed more than sixty works in her unique version of the modern dance idiom. From 1967 to 1970 she was assistant director of the dance program at New York University Tisch School of the Arts. After 1970 she headed the dance program that she established in Theater Arts at the University of California, Santa Cruz, until her retirement in 1995. Her highly successful teaching technique has been documented in an hour-long video, Anatomy As a Master Image in Training Dancers. Her research has produced articles in such medical journals as The Physician and Sports Medicine and The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, in all of the major dance and sports medicine periodicals, and chapters in numerous books. Her most extensive publications are Preventing Dance Injuries (Second Edition, 2005), and East Meets West in Dance: Voices in the Cross-Cultural Dialogue. The latest book, Dance Medicine & Science Bibliography: Fourth Edition, covering the literature in the field for the last 40 years and containing over 2900 citations, became available in 2007. She was the National Dance Association’s Scholar of the Year for 1992, Dance Professional of the Year in 1998, and Heritage Honoree in 2003. She was a charter member of the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science. She has edited the Proceedings for the association’s 2003-2009 Annual Meetings. In 2003 Ms. Solomon became a Certified Medical Assistant. Ms. Solomon serves as Editor-in-Chief, with John Solomon, of the Journal of Dance Medicine & Science, the official publication of IADMS.
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Virginia Wilmerding, PhD
Mary Virginia ("Ginny") Wilmerding danced professionally for a number of modern dance companies in New York City before moving to New Mexico. She is now an Adjunct Professor at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA where she teaches for both the Exercise Science and Dance Programs. Courses include kinesiology, research design, exercise physiology, and exercise prescription, as well as ballet, jazz, and conditioning. She teaches modern dance to children at Dance Theatre of the Southwest. Ginny is a member of IADMS’ Research Committee. She is on the Research Committee of the Performing Arts Medicine Association, also. She has published original research in Journal of Dance Medicine & Science, Medical Problems of Performing Artists, Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, and Idea Today. Research interests include body composition, training methodologies, injury incidence and prevention, pedagogical considerations in technique class, and the physiological requirements of various dance idioms. She choreographs for gymnastics, and won Choreographer of the Year in 1990 and 1991. She was a personal coach at the 1991 World Championships in Gymnastics when the U.S. team won the Silver medal. She continues to perform with Bill Evans and New Mexico Ballet. Elected to the Board of Directors in 2001.
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Matthew Wyon, PhD
Matthew Wyon, PhD, is a Reader in Performance Sciences at the University of Wolverhampton, UK where he works in both the Sport and Dance Departments. At the University he is the course leader for the MSc in Applied Sport and Exercise Science, the MSc in Dance Science and Director of Studies for 4 dance science and medicine doctoral candidates who have all presented at IADMS in recent years. He sits on the Medical Advisory Committee of Dance UK and gives lectures to students at vocational dance schools on their behalf on 'The Healthier Dancer' programme. He is a certified strength and conditioning specialist (NSCA) and is the exercise physiologist for the Birmingham Royal Ballet and English National Ballet. He has worked with numerous dancers and companies within the UK as an applied physiologist and fitness trainer. He has been a member of IADMS for the last nine years and has presented at the last six conferences. He was also a Board member between 2003-2005. He has published 12 peer-reviewed and 8 professional dance science articles and was asked by the British Association of Sport and Exercise Science to write the fitness testing guides for dancers that was published in 2006. He serves as Chair of the IADMS Research Committee.
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