1-5 October 2009 Sydney Convetion Centre

Dr. J.R. ANEMA is an occupational physician. He is employed as assistant professor /senior researcher at the Department of Public and Occupational Health of the VU University Medical Centre and the EMGO Institute in Amsterdam. Since 2005 he is also part time employed at the Research Centre for Insurance Medicine AMC UWV VUmc.

His main research topics are:
1. Cost-effectiveness of work disability prevention interventions
2. Improvement of cooperation between clinical and occupational healthcare.

He is project leader of several national projects. He is currently supervising many PhD-students. For his PhD-project, entitled low back pain, workplace intervention & return-to-work’, he obtained in 1999 a personal governmental grant and he received in 2002 the 'Zielhuis award' of the Dutch Medical Board for Occupational Medicine. In 2005 he has been awarded by the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development as ‘CLINICAL FELLOW 2005-2010' to develop a research line to improve evidence based medicine in clinical occupational healthcare.

He has many international scientific collaborations. He is assigned in Canada since 2003 as a lecturer, since 2005 as a mentor and since 2008 as a member of the Programme Executive Committee for the Canadian Institutes of Health Research strategic training program Work disability prevention. He is part of an international publishing network on work disability prevention. Since 2007 he is member of the editorial board of the Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation.

Most relevant and recent SSCI-publications
1. Anema JR, Beek van der AJ. Medically Certified sickness absence. BMJ. 2008 Oct 2;337:825-6. Editorial.

2. Anema JR, Steenstra IA, Bongers PM, de Vet HC, Knol DL, Loisel P, van Mechelen W.. Multidisciplinary rehabilitation for subacute low back pain: graded activity or workplace intervention or both?: a randomized controlled trial. Spine. 2007 Feb 1;32(3):291-8; discussion 299-300.

3. Anema JR, Cuelenaere B, van der Beek AJ, Knol DL, de Vet HCW, van Mechelen W. The effectiveness of ergonomic interventions on return-to-work after low back pain: a prospective 2-year cohort study in 6 countries on low back pain patients sicklisted 3-4 months.  Occup Environ Med Apr 2004;61(4):289-94.

4. Anema JR, Van Der Giezen AM, Buijs PC, Van Mechelen W. Ineffective disability management by doctors is an obstacle for return-to-work: a cohort study on low back pain patients sicklisted for 3-4 months. Occup Environ Med. 2002 Nov;59(11):729-33.

5. Anema JR, Steenstra IA, Urlings IJM, Bongers PM, de Vroome EMM, van Mechelen W. Participatory Ergonomics as a Return-to-Work Intervention; A future challenge? Am J Ind Med 2003; 44 273-81.

6. Young AE, Wasiak R, Roessler R, McPherson KM, Anema JR, van Poppel MNM. Return to work following work disability: Stakeholder motivations, interests and concerns. J Occup Rehabil. 2005;15: 543-56.

7. Young AE, Roessler R, Wasiak R, McPherson KM, van Poppel MNM, Anema JR. A developmental conceptualization of return to work. J Occup Rehabil. 2005;15:557-68.

8. Wasiak, R, Young, AE, Roessler, RT, McPherson, KM, van Poppel, MNM, Anema, JR. Measuring return to work. J Occup Rehabil. 2007 Dec;17(4):766-81. Epub 2007 Oct 11. Review.

9. Driessen MT, Anema JR, Proper KI, Bongers PM, van der Beek AJ.Stay@Work: Participatory Ergonomics to prevent low back and neck pain among workers: design of a randomised controlled trial to evaluate the (cost-)effectiveness. BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2008 Oct 29;9(1):145.

10. Steenstra IA, Anema JR, Bongers PM, Vet HCW de, Mechelen W van. Cost effectiveness of a multi-stage return to work program for workers on sickleave due to low back pain. Design of a trial. BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2003 Nov 21;4(1):26.

11. Verbeek JH, de Boer AG, van der Weide WE, Piirainen H, Anema JR, van Amstel R, Hartog F. Patient satisfaction with occupational health services, development of a questionnaire. Occup Environ Med. 2005 Feb;62(2):119-23.

12. van Amstel RJ, Anema JR, Jettinghoff K, Verbeek JH, Nauta AP, van Putten DJ. Limited change in the quality of the social medical guidance and in the satisfaction of sick-listed patients, after collaborative projects between general practitioners and occupational physicians. Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2005;149:2407-12.

13. Weevers H-JA, Van der Beek AJ, Anema JR, Van der Wal G and Van Mechelen W. Work-related disease in general practice: a systematic review. Family Practice 2005; 22: 197–204.

14. Anema JR, Jettinghoff K, Houtman I, Schoemaker CG, Buijs PC, van den Berg R. Medical care of employees long-term sick listed due to mental health problems. A cohort study to describe and compare the care of the occupational physician and the general practitioner. J Occup Rehabil.  2006; 16:41-52.

15. Steenstra IA, Anema JR, Bongers PM, de Vet HC, Knol DL, van Mechelen W. The effectiveness of graded activity for low back pain in occupational healthcare. Occup Environ Med. 2006;63:718-25. Epub 2006 Jul 17.

16. Heymans MW, Anema JR, de Vet HC, van Mechelen W. Does flexion-distraction help treat chronic low back pain? Nat Clin Pract Rheumatol. 2006;2:360-1.

17. Steenstra IA, Anema JR, van Tulder MW, Bongers PM, de Vet HC, van Mechelen W. Economic evaluation of a multi-stage return to work program for workers on sick-leave due to low back pain. J Occup Rehabil. 2006;16:557-78.

18. Buijs P, Anema H, Evers M, Van Dijk F, van der Klink J. How general practitioners can manage work-related psychological complaints. Design and pilot of a guideline: a contribution towards solving a huge problem. Eur J Gen Pract. 2006;12:138-41.

19. Buijs PC, van Dijk FJ, Evers M, vd Klink JJ, Anema H. Managing work-related psychological complaints by general practitioners, in coordination with occupational physicians: a pilot study. Ind Health. 2007 Jan;45(1):37-43.

20. Uegaki K, de Bruijne MC, Anema JR, van der Beek AJ, van Tulder MW, van Mechelen W. Consensus-based findings and recommendations for estimating the costs of health-related productivity loss from a company's perspective. Scand J Work Environ Health. 2007 Apr;33(2):122-30.

21. Lambeek LC, Anema JR, van Royen BJ, Buijs PC, Wuisman PI, van Tulder MW, van Mechelen W. Multidisciplinary outpatient care program for patients with chronic low back pain: design of a randomized controlled trial and cost-effectiveness study [ISRCTN28478651]. BMC Public Health. 2007 Sep 20;7(1):254.

22. van Oostrom SH, Anema JR, Terluin B, Venema A, de Vet HC, van Mechelen W. Development of a workplace intervention for sick-listed employees with stress-related mental disorders: Intervention Mapping as a useful tool. BMC Health Serv Res. 2007 Aug 15;7(1):127.

23. van Oostrom SH, Anema JR, Terluin B, de Vet HC, Knol DL, van Mechelen W. Cost-effectiveness of a workplace intervention for sick-listed employees with common mental disorders: design of a randomized controlled trial. BMC Public Health. 2008 Jan 14;8:12.

24. van Oostrom SH, Driessen MT, Anema JR, Fassier JB, Franche RL, Schonstein E, de Vet, HCW, Loisel P, van Mechelen W. Workplace interventions for preventing work disability. (Protocol) Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2008, Issue 1. Art. No.: CD006955. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD006955.

25. Vlasveld MC, Anema JR, Beekman AT, van Mechelen W, Hoedeman R, van Marwijk HW, Rutten FF, Hakkaart-van Roijen L, van der Feltz-Cornelis C. Multidisciplinary Collaborative Care for Depressive Disorder in the Occupational Health Setting: design of a randomised controlled trial and cost-effectiveness study. BMC Health Serv Res. 2008 May 5;8(1):99.

26. Buijs PC, Lambeek LC, Koppenrade V, Hooftman WE, Anema JR. Can workers with chronic back pain shift from pain elimination to function restore at work? Qualitative evaluation of an innovative work related multidisciplinary programme. Accepted in Journal of Back and Musculoskeletal Rehabilitation 2008.