Bart Bongers (B.C.)

Research activities:

  • Optimisation of the perioperative proces for patients undergoing major elective abdominal surgery by preoperative risk stratification, preoperative physical exercise training for high-risk patients (prehabilitation), and postoperative physical exercise training
  • Metabolic measurements
  • Clinical application and interpretation of cardiopulmonary exercise testing, as well as other exercise tests
  • Optimisation of rehabilitation programs

Educational activities:

  • Medical physiology
  • Exercise physiology
  • Exercise tests
  • Training physiology
Expertises
  • Exercise physiology
  • Exercise tests
  • Training physiology
  • Preoperative risk stratification
  • Prehabilitation
  • Rehabilitation
Career history
  • 2009 - MSc in Human Movement Sciences, Maastricht University
  • 2013 - PhD in Medicine, Utrecht University
  • 2013 - Registration as a medical physiologist, SMBWO
  • 2013 - Postdoc researcher Child Development & Exercise Center, University Medical Center Utrecht
  • 2014 - Postdoc researcher department of Epidemiology, Maastricht University
  • 2015 - Assistant professor department of Epidemiology, Maastricht University
  • 2018 - Assistant professor department of Nutrition and Movement Sciences, Maastricht University