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We are delighted to introduce our clinical and academic authors; we are extremely grateful for their expertise and genuine interest in supporting PRACDRIVA. We thank the authors for their contributions, generosity and kind co-operation, which have made the content of the website possible. As the Medical Conditions section develops, we will include details of our new contributors here.
Anu , compiled the ADAS section as well as being part of the editorial team for all medical condition chapters.
Anu is a Consultant Practitioner and Head of Service for South East DriveAbility (NHS). His role mainly involves leading an ever-expanding service and providing specialist clinical input and skills into medical fitness to drive assessments.
Anu is a Consultant Practitioner and Head of Service for South East DriveAbility (NHS). His role mainly involves leading an ever-expanding service and providing specialist clinical input and skills into medical fitness to drive assessments. He has 31years' experience working with patients with various physical and neurological conditions.
Anu, in 2008 became a non-executive director of Driving Mobility (formerly the Forum of Mobility Centres) and shortly after was appointed Chairman in 2013. However, he relinquished his position as Chairman in August 2017 to concentrate on his Doctoral study.
Anu has worked as a deputy chair for a steering group with CIECA Secretariat on behalf of Driving Mobility on projects such as standards-setting for disabled and older drivers for medical fitness to drive assessment and updates for the Portare Handbook. In addition, Anu is Programme Lead for a co-delivered education programme, Post Graduate Certificate in Driving Assessment & Outdoor Mobility, with the Oxford Brookes University on behalf of Driving Mobility.
Anu has completed his Doctorate in Professional Studies (DProf) from the University of Chester. His doctoral research study was on “The experiences of older drivers in adopting new technologies in cars”. He has special interests in ageing, car automation, and independent community mobility for older drivers globally.
Mark provided content for Defining Driver Assessment, Differences between the Standard Driving Test and a Practical Clinical Driver Assessment and for the Autism Spectrum Disorder chapter.
Dr. Mark Tant graduated as experimental psychologist at the Leuven University (BE) in 1995 and as MSc in Cognitive Neuropsychology at the Essex University (UK) in 1996. His PhD at the Groningen University (NL) dates from 2002. Since 2002 he is employed by Vias institute, formerly the Belgian Road Safety institute, at the CARA Department. The CARA department is the Belgian National Centre for Fitness to Drive (FTD) Evaluations and Vehicle Adaptations. It is the only officially recognised centre for FTD evaluations in Belgium. He was first associated to the department as a neuropsychologist and researcher acting on the topics of vision, neuropsychology, hypo-vigilance, and driver evaluation and -training. Since 2008 he is leading the CARA department, still performing but mainly supervising the official FTD evaluations.
He is involved in national and international research projects, as he Scientific Coordinator of the FTD research line within the Knowledge Centre of Vias institute.
He is also actively involved in National and EU policy making regarding FTD criteria and evaluation procedures and acts as representative at various FTD related National and EU working groups and committees. He is the leading national expert in revising and formulating the national FTD criteria as mentioned in the Royal Decree 23rd March 1998 on Driving Licences, annex 6). He was member of the EU Working Group on Visual FTD criteria (leading to EU Directive 2009/113/EU), the EU Working Group on Cardiac FTD criteria (EU Directive 2016/1106), the EU Working Group on medical Driving Licence codes (EU Directive 2015/653). He is Belgian medical and FTD representative at the EU Driving Licence Committee, Belgian representative at the NOG Working Group on Ergofthalmology, and member of CIECA Fit to Drive Topical groups.
Sandra provided the content for the background, introductory and explanatory framework sections of the website.
Sandra has been instrumental in shaping the development of PRACDRIVA, from building on the initial findings of the CIECA and Driving Mobility workshops in 2015, then as Chair of the CIECA/Driving Mobility Setting Standards for Disabled Driver Assessment Subgroup and parallel PRACDRIVA Steering Group 2017 – 2021.
After leaving her post in the National Health Service, UK at the end of January 2022, she continued as the Project Manager of the new, current Project Team until the end of April 2022, guiding the initiation phase of the website’s development.
Sandra worked in several roles in the National Health Service and led a driver assessment team for over 18 years. She developed the clinical driver assessment service in Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust in the North East of England. She gained her Postgraduate qualification in Driving Assessment and Outdoor Mobility in 2021 with Driving Mobility and the University of Chester. Sandra served several terms of office as an active member of the Driving Mobility Board in the UK. During her career she has remained committed to driver assessment being an integral part of clinical rehabilitation and to the importance of a fair and consistent approach to driver assessment.
Lynne provided content for the medical condition Stroke.
After graduating as MBChB from the University of Glasgow in 1995, Dr Hutton continued her medical training in Aberdeen obtaining MRCP(UK) and developing her interest in Rehabilitation Medicine. She undertook specialist training in Rehabilitation Medicine in Edinburgh, allowing her to develop more fully her interest in mobility rehabilitation, being appointed as Consultant at Astley Ainslie Hospital, Edinburgh in 2004. This role includes being Clinical Lead to the Scottish Driving Assessment Service, undertaking medical fitness to drive assessments and ensuring service standards and development. This work has led to a variety of opportunities in relation to fitness to drive including being invited to be part of Driving Mobility Expert Panel, and to be a member of CIECA Fit to Drive Topical Groups resulting in “Setting Standards for Disabled Driver Assessment”, published in 2021.
Hannes compiled the information for Parkinson's Disease.
Hannes Devos earned a bachelor’s degree in 2002 and a master’s degree in 2005 in physical therapy and rehabilitation science at the University of Leuven in Belgium. In 2011, he earned his PhD in biomedical science at the University of Leuven. After being awarded a three-year postdoctoral fellowship, Devos relocated to the United States where he trained in neurology and mechanical engineering at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, IA. In 2013, he accepted a faculty position at Augusta University in Augusta, Georgia. To continue his academic career, he joined the faculty in the Department of Physical Therapy, Rehabilitation Science, and Athletic Training at KU Medical Center in 2016 where he was promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure in 2020.
Devos' primary specialty area of expertise is neurorehabilitation of individuals with progressive neurological conditions. His current line of research focuses on the intersection of cognition and mobility. He uses virtual reality technology, electroencephalography, and pupillometry to elucidate the mechanisms of impaired mobility in Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and multiple sclerosis. As a driving rehabilitation specialist, he also renders clinical services to clients seeking to continue driving vehicles.
Rients compiled the information for Huntington’s Disease.
Dr. Rients Huitema has been working as a neuropsychologist in the University Medical Center Groningen in the Netherlands since 1999. In 2005 he started at the department of Neurology where he now is department manager of the sub-department Clinical Neuropsychology and head of the Driving Simulator Laboratory. The Driving-sim lab is the centre point of fitness to drive assessments carried out at the department, both in the context of medical expertise assessments as in scientific research projects. Rients is currently involved in projects investigating fitness to drive in Huntington’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and young onset dementia. A focus point in his research is risk taking behaviour in traffic in several neurological conditions.
Laura compiled the information for the Vehicle Adaptation Section.
Laura Holley is a Driving Vehicle Standards Agency, Approved Driving Instructor specialising in full and provisional driving licence holders with physical and/or cognitive challenges relating to the driving task. Laura works as Team Leader at QEF Mobility Services, Southampton (an accredited member of Driving Mobility UK) and is passionate about enabling and maintaining driving independence, where appropriate. Laura gained her Postgraduate qualification in Driving Assessment and Outdoor Mobility in 2017 at Chester University and was an active member of the CIECA/Driving Mobility ‘Setting Standards for the Evaluation of Medical Fitness to Drive’ and ‘Setting Standards for Disabled Driver Assessment’ working groups, leading the work on ‘Guideline 4: The in-car, on-road assessment’.
Paul is an old age psychiatrist in Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust, working in dementia services, and a clinical researcher at Newcastle University
Paul is an old age psychiatrist in Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust, working in dementia services, and a clinical researcher at Newcastle University. He has been involved with systematic reviews and guideline development in driving and dementia and is currently leading a research project seeking to identify clinical predictors of on-road driving performance in dementia and mild cognitive impairment.
Helmut owned a driving school in the 1980s. Since 1992, he has been employed as an examiner by the Dutch CBR (Dutch agency for issuing driving licenses and certificates of fitness to drive).
Helmut owned a driving school in the 1980s. Since 1992, he has been employed as an examiner by the Dutch CBR (Dutch agency for issuing driving licenses and certificates of fitness to drive). From 2000, he has worked as an expert of practical fitness to drive at CBR's medical department, specialising in (high-tech) car- and motorbike adaptations and also in visual and cognitive problems. Helmut's responsibilities include the programme and implementation of the training and refresher courses for the Dutch experts of practical fitness to drive.
Dilwyn Marple-Horvat is Professor of Motor Neuroscience in the Department of Life
Sciences at Manchester Metropolitan University. His research investigates how the brain uses sensory information to guide what we do. Recent work has focused on the identification of impaired driving due to different factors, including medical conditions such as diabetic peripheral neuropathy. The aim is to help drivers with neuropathy to overcome their altered use of the accelerator pedal by training and/or in-car driver assistance systems to enable them to continue to drive safely.
Dr Teng Cheng Khoo is a Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine and the Lead Clinician at the Neurorehabilitation service in Glasgow, Scotland. He also provides input and supports the development of neurorehabilitation and major trauma rehabilitation services across the West of Scotland.
Dr Teng Cheng Khoo is a Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine and the Lead Clinician at the Neurorehabilitation service in Glasgow, Scotland. He also provides input and supports the development of neurorehabilitation and major trauma rehabilitation services across the West of Scotland.
Teng graduated from the University of Glasgow in 2012, and subsequently trained in Glasgow and Edinburgh. He is a current Fellow of the European Board of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine and also a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Glasgow. In addition to his clinical experience and leadership role, Teng is also a keen clinical educator and is a Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow.
Teng has special interests in both spasticity and pain management within the neurorehabilitation cohort, and recently completed a Master’s Degree in the Clinical Management of Pain at the University of Edinburgh in 2022. He also has a particular interest in the holistic management of persons with Multiple Sclerosis, and actively collaborates with health care, social care and third sector organisations to improve the functional outcome of this specific group of individuals.
Henry Leonard is a UK-registered optometrist. As part of his role as Head of Clinical and Regulatory for the Association of Optometrists (AOP), Henry provides tailored advice to other optometrists throughout the UK, drafts guidance for the profession and provides clinical expertise in legal cases.
Henry has a particular interest in issues around driving and vision, and has been interviewed on national radio, television and in print on this topic, as part of the AOP’s annual “Don’t Swerve a Sight Test” campaign. He has also given presentations to MPs at parliamentary roundtable events which looked at changing the law around vision and driving, and he is a regular speaker at events organised by the Older
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