IADMS

Officers of the Board			Board Members-at-Large
Staff			Committee Chairs

Board of Directors 2007-2009

President:
Boni Rietveld, MD, BA(mus) (Netherlands)

Vice President/President-Elect:
Tom Welsh, PhD (USA)

Treasurer:
Jarmo Ahonen, PT (Finland)

Past President:
Virginia Wilmerding, PhD (USA)

Members-at-Large:
Jan Dunn, MS (USA)
Gayanne Grossman, PT, EdM (USA)
Yiannis Koutedakis, PhD (Greece)
Peter E. Lavine, MD (USA)
Helen Laws (UK)
Peter Lewton-Brain, DO, MA (Monaco)
Moira McCormack, PT (UK)
Emma Redding (UK)
Ruth Solomon, BA (USA)
Matthew Wyon, PhD (UK)

Officers of the Board
PRESIDENT Boni Rietveld, MD, BA(mus) Dr. Rietveld was born in Rotterdam (The Netherlands) in 1952. He started his musical training at the age of 5. After secondary school he studied both medicine and music (trumpet and harp). In 1976 he graduated as a trumpet teacher from the Royal Conservatory of Music in The Hague (The Netherlands). In 1978 he graduated from the Medical Faculty at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands). In 1987 he finished his specialization as an orthopaedic surgeon at the Academic Hospital of the University of Leiden. During his specialization in 1982–83 he had extensive training in dance-orthopaedics, working with William G. Hamilton, MD, orthopaedic surgeon of the New York City Ballet Company. He is the head of the Dutch Medical Centre for Dancers and Musicians, which he established in the MCH, loc.Westeinde Hospital in The Hague in 1993. As an orthopaedic surgeon he is full time involved in dance- and music-medicine. He is married, has two children, performs regularly as a trumpeter and he runs marathons.

VICE PRESIDENT / PRESIDENT-ELECT Tom Welsh, PhD Tom Welsh is on the Dance faculty at Florida State University (Tallahassee, Florida, USA) where he teaches Dance Kinesiology, Conditioning, and Pedagogy and conducts research into healthy approaches to training dancers. Dr. Welsh is a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Dance Medicine & Science and served as guest editor for a recent special issue on measuring dancer capacities. He trained as a modern dancer and has performed works by Ted Shawn, Paul Taylor, Shapiro & Smith, Ann Carlson, Shirlie Ririe and Joan Woodbury with university dance companies across the United States.

TREASURER Jarmo Ahonen, PT Born 1953 in Helsinki, Finland. Graduated from the Fourth College of Health Sciences in Helsinki, 1976. One semester at Cal State University, Fresno, U.S. on pre-PT program prior to Physical Therapy School in Helsinki. Licensed Physical Therapist in Finland and Sweden. Lived and worked in Sweden for four years in the 1970’s and 1980’s and in California, U.S. for approximately two years. The time spent in the U.S. was working and studying Pilates and some Gyrotonics. Background in sports and a member of the Finnish NOC team in four Olympic Games as a team physiotherapist. Transferred to Dance Medicine 1986 when started to work for the Finnish National Ballet Company in Helsinki. Owner of a private Physical Therapy Clinic in Helsinki since 1986. Teacher of Dance Kinesiology since 1988 at the College of Theater Arts, Dance Department in Helsinki and at the School of Ballet at the Finnish National Opera. A certified Pilates instructor trained by Madeline Black and Jennifer Stacy. Author and editor of four books on Physical Therapy, Human Movement and Gait Analysis (in Finnish, sorry!). Lecturing throughout Finland and Sweden on Dance Medicine and Sports Medicine. Elected to the Board of Directors in 2001.

PAST PRESIDENT Virginia Wilmerding, PhD Mary Virginia ("Ginny") Wilmerding danced professionally for a number of modern dance companies in New York City before moving to New Mexico. She is now an Adjunct Professor at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA where she teaches for both the Exercise Science and Dance Programs. Courses include kinesiology, research design, exercise physiology, and exercise prescription, as well as ballet, jazz, and conditioning. She teaches modern dance to children at Dance Theatre of the Southwest. Ginny is a member of IADMS’ Research Committee. She is on the Research Committee of the Performing Arts Medicine Association, also. She has published original research in Journal of Dance Medicine & Science, Medical Problems of Performing Artists, Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, and Idea Today. Research interests include body composition, training methodologies, injury incidence and prevention, pedagogical considerations in technique class, and the physiological requirements of various dance idioms. She choreographs for gymnastics, and won Choreographer of the Year in 1990 and 1991. She was a personal coach at the 1991 World Championships in Gymnastics when the U.S. team won the Silver medal. She continues to perform with Bill Evans and New Mexico Ballet. Elected to the Board of Directors in 2001.

List of Past Presidents