Marleen Huijben-Schoenmakers
University of Amsterdam
Biography
Marleen Huijben-Schoenmakers has completed her Master of Science (Nursing) at the University of Utrecht. Furthermore, she studied Ethical Care at the Radboud University of Nijmegen and presently, she is a PhD Candidate at the Free University of Amsterdam and she is a Lecturer at the Avans University for Applied Sciences in Breda, Netherlands. Her research topics are focused on stroke rehabilitation. She has developed and implemented the exercise map on stroke units in nursing homes and by this the therapy time increased significantly by 50% to 150 minutes a day. She is now examining if the increased therapy time affects cognition in stroke patients
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