Anand V Nene

Anand V. Nene was born in Bombay, India. He received the M.B.B.S. and M.S. degrees from Bombay University, Bombay, India, in 1972 and 1976, respectively. He received the MChOrth degree from the University of Liverpool, Liverpool, U.K., in 1979. In December 1994, he received the Ph.D. degree from Twente University, Enschede, The Netherlands, for his thesis on paraplegic locomotion. He returned to India in 1983 and worked as an orthopaedic surgeon in Nagpur, India. From December 1985 to May 1993 he worked as a Medical Research Fellow in the Orthotic Research and Locomotor Assessment Unit (ORLAU) at The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic and District Hospital in Oswestry, Shropshire, U.K. In January 1994, he started work as a Research Fellow in Roessingh Research and Development based at Roessingh Rehabilitation Centre, Enschede, The Netherlands. From July 1994 to June 1997, he was retrained as a specialist in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine. Presently, he works as a specialist in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, and continues to work as a Research Fellow in Roessingh Research and Development, based at Roessingh Rehabilitation Centre, Enschede, The Netherlands. He has continued his research interests in functional electrical stimulation, gait analysis and its applications in clinical decision making, and balance control in neurological disorders and its relation to walking ability.