Joop Tanis
His role is to lead the team in its aim to stimulate and encourage innovative ideas and to turn those ideas into new ventures that will make as profound an impact as possible on the UK's health and quality of life. Joop holds a BSc (hons) in Physiotherapy obtained in the Netherlands and joined the NHS in 1984. After a clinical career, specialising in musculoskeletal diagnosis and treatment, he moved into management and service delivery. At Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, he introduced innovative working practices and promoted inter-Trust integration of services. Joop is founding partner of a successful physiotherapy clinic in Cambridge. Since 2005 he has been working in health innovation as Head of Innovation, Service Delivery, at Health Enterprise East, the NHS Innovation hub for the Eastern Region. Here he initiated and developed a methodology for supporting the commercialisation and adoption of Intellectual Property arising from Service Innovations. Joop has represented the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy internationally, specifically in the field of professional regulation. He has an interest in ethics and professional conduct matters. He is a Trustee of the British Psychological Society and is chair of its Professional Conduct Board. Contact joop.tanis(AT)youngfoundation.org or call 020 8709 9025 |
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Joop joined the Young Foundation on 1 November 2007 to manage the Health Launchpad programme.