7th Biennial Conference on Pediatric Brain Injury

Dr. Frederike van Markus-Doornbosch is a physiatrist specializing in pediatric rehabilitation medicine at Basalt Rehabilitation in The Hague, The Netherlands with a focus on youth aged 14-25 years. She has been working with children and young adults with acquired brain injury for 15 years. In 2014 she initiated a new outpatient clinic for adolescents aged 14 to 25 years with specific attention for the long-term effects of pediatric brain injury and the transition to adulthood including vocational assessment, increasing social skills and physical activity.

From 2012-2020 she was a PhD student at the Leiden University Medical Center in The Netherlands and received her PhD entitled “Fatigue and Physical Activity in Children and Adolescents with Acquired Brain Injury” in March of 2020. Complementing clinical medicine she works as a post-doc researcher in a multicenter research project focusing on gaining more insight into fatigue, participation and family impact in youth with ABI; developing a national treatment program for youth with ABI and developing regional collaboration between hospitals, education, rehabilitation care and community services.

She is an active member of the Dutch national coalition “Brain Injury and Youth” where collaboration between hospitals, rehabilitation centers, and research teams are embraced and elaborated to develop evidence-based care for children and adolescents with ABI.