The ESMAC Early Career Network (ECN) committee is delighted to announce its next online webinar.

The ECN committee would like to invite you all to our October Webinar, where we put the spotlight on the winner of the third Dr. Tom Shannon Promising Scientist Award, which was awarded to Dr. Inti Vanmechelen (Postdoctoral Researcher, Karolinska Institutet) at the recent Annual Meeting in Basel.

The webinar is free and no registration is required.

Title: Three-dimensional motion analysis in CP – The missing puzzle piece or yesterday’s news?

When: 23rd October 2025 at 11:30 BST/12:30 CET

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Speaker:

Dr. Inti Vanmechelen graduated Magna Cum Laude as a Movement Scientist with a master in Research in Biomedical Kinesiology. She performed her masters internship at the Gait Lab in Guy’s Hospital (London), where she additionally wrote an award-winning paper on muscle volume estimations in ambulatory children with CP.

She performed her PhD at the KU Leuven in Bruges, focusing on upper limb movement patterns in children with dyskinetic cerebral palsy. Throughout her PhD, she worked on unraveling the complex upper limb motion patterns in children with dyskinetic cerebral palsy using three-dimensional motion analysis and wearable sensors. Additionally, during her PhD, she validated the use of the Dyskinesia Impairment Scale for children and adolescents with inherited and idiopathic dystonia and developed a shortened version of this scale using Rasch Analysis.

Currently, she works as a postdoctoral research fellow at KI KBH on 3D gait analysis data of children with CP. The objective of this postdoctoral project is to develop a research database collecting gait analysis and clinical examination data of retrospective clinical data. This data will be used to validate gait pattern classifications using both 3D gait analysis as well as video data. Finally, longitudinal follow-up will be explored to assess the long-term effect of different interventions on ambulatory function in children with CP and their gait classification pattern.

On behalf of ESMAC ECN we hope to see you at this meeting.  For any questions, please contact ecn@esmac.org