Emer Guinan, PT, PhD – ICPTO Programme Chair
Dr. Emer Guinan is an Associate Professor in Cancer Rehabilitation and Survivorship, in the School of Medicine in Trinity College, with responsibility for building capacity in cancer survivorship research and education across the Trinity St James’s Cancer Institute (TSJCI). She is co-chair of the TSJCI Survivorship Network and co-coordinator of the Postgraduate Programmes in Cancer Survivorship, including the MSc in Cancer Survivorship, at Trinity College Dublin. Her primary research interest is in the role of exercise and rehabilitation in cancer care, particularly in patients with complex rehabilitation needs. At present, she is the principal investigator on the Personalised Exercise in Cancer Survivorship (PERCS) programme which is examining how we can implement exercise into cancer care in Ireland. Her research programme has delivered over 90 peer-reviewed publications and accrued over €4.5M in competitive funding. As Chair of the ICPTO programme committee she is delighted to welcome ICPTO delegates to Dublin and to Trinity College in April 2026.
Kristin Campbell, PT, PhD – ICPTO Co-Chair
Kristin Campbell is a licensed physical therapist and a Professor in the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. She also an Affiliated Scientist in the Cancer Control Program at the BC Cancer Research Institute. Her research focuses on the role of rehabilitation and exercise to improve the physical function, quality of life and health of people living with and beyond cancer. This work has been funded by the Canadian Cancer Society, Canadian Institutes of Health, Physiotherapy Foundation of Canada, and other. She has published over 170 peer review papers, and she was the co-lead of the 2019 exercise guidelines for cancer survivors from the American College of Sports Medicine. In 2020, she received a Distinguished Achievement Award for Overall Excellence Mid-Career from the Faculty of Medicine at UBC and a Visiting Scholar Award from the American College of Sports Medicine in 2022. She is a member of the Oncology Division of the Canadian Physiotherapy Association and a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine. She is also an associate editor of the Translational Journal of the American College of Sports Medicine (TJACSM).
Caroline Speksnijder, PT, PhD, MMPT – ICPTO Co-Chair
Caroline Speksnijder is an associate professor at UMC Utrecht and a specialist in orofacial and oncology rehabilitation. Her research focuses on functional deficits in patients with head and neck cancer, facial palsy, temporomandibular dysfunction, orofacial trauma, brain cancer, and oncology-related physical fitness. She has (co)authored over 125 peer-reviewed publications and supervised 14 PhD and over 50 MSc theses. Caroline’s work bridges research, education, and clinical practice, to advance understanding and treating functional deficits to improve patient care and outcomes. Caroline developed the MSc Orofacial Physiotherapy at SOMT University of Physiotherapy and coordinated the MSc Physiotherapy Science at Utrecht University. She serves as vice-president of IPT-HOPE (WCPT), is a scientific advisor to the Royal Dutch Association of Physiotherapy (KNGF), and is president of the Dutch Society for Allied Healthcare in Head and Neck Oncology (PWHHT) and the Dutch Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (DASCC), which she founded.
Martijn Stuiver, PT (n.p.), PhD – ICPTO Co-Chair
Martijn Stuiver is a PhD clinical epidemiologist with a professional background of 20+ years in oncology physical therapy. His research is directed at functional recovery from cancer and its treatment. With his group at the Netherlands Cancer Institute, he aims to gain a better understanding of physical functioning of people living with or beyond cancer, identify which patients are at risk for poor functioning/ recovery, and determine how interventions – exercise in particular – can help improve treatment outcomes and quality of life. Martijn Stuiver is a founding board member of Onconet, the Netherlands’ nationwide network of physiotherapists working in Oncology, and he contributed to several national and international guidelines on cancer rehabilitation. Beside his work in cancer research, he is associate professor clinical epidemiology at the Amsterdam University Medical Center, where he is the program director of the master program Evidence Based Practice in Health Care.
Tenna Askjær, PT, MSc
Tenna Askjær, Master of Science in Physiotherapy, is a cancer rehabilitation physiotherapist at the Department of Public Health, Health and Care, Municipality of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark. Also, she is a certified specialist in oncological physiotherapy in Denmark, and a certified lymph therapist. She is a member of the Danish Society for Oncological and Palliative Physiotherapy, an organization that strives for improvement of specialized and evidence-based oncological and palliative physiotherapy where her work mainly evolves around development and accessibility of education.
Irene Cantarero-Villanueva, PT, PhD
Dr. Irene Cantarero-Villanueva holds degrees in Physical Activity and Sports Sciences (2003) and Physiotherapy (2006), and obtained her PhD from the University of Granada (2011). Since 2009, she has been teaching in the Department of Physiotherapy, University of Granada, and was appointed Professor in 2023. She is currently the Director of the AEFON, the oncology section of the Spanish Association of Physiotherapists. Since the beginning of her research career in 2009 she is involved in the rehabilitation and cancer domain of research, funded by the Carlos III Health Institute (five projects), the Spanish Association Against Cancer (one project), the Junta de Andalucía (four projects), and the University of Granada (twelve projects), initially as collaborator (CI) and later as principal investigator (PI). Thanks to her participation in these projects, she has published 88 peer-reviewed publications. The results have also been disseminated on social networks and at national and international conferences (>100 communications and posters). She reviews articles in academic journals and has evaluated competitive research projects. Her line of research focuses on therapeutic exercise in cancer patients, specifically on determining its preventive role in cancer-related toxicity.
Scott Capozza, PT, MS
Scott Capozza, PT, MS works as an outpatient physiotherapist dedicated to oncology rehabilitation at Smilow Cancer Hospital at the Yale Cancer Center in Connecticut, USA. He is among the first class of board-certified clinical specialists in oncologic physical therapy in the United States. He holds several leadership positions within the American Physical Therapy Association. Scott has taught as an adjunct professor in Oncology Physical Therapy for multiple universities in Connecticut and has delivered lectures to physiotherapy programs around the United States educating students about the benefits of oncology rehabilitation. He has presented professionally on the local, state, national and international level and has been a co-author on several peer-reviewed publications. He is also the co-author of the chapter ‘Young Adult Survivors’ in the textbook Oncology Rehabilitation: A Comprehensive Guidebook for Clinicians. His patient perspective piece ‘Patient is Otherwise Healthy,’ detailing the late effects faced by Adolescents and Young Adults with cancer, was published in JCO Oncology Practice in 2024.
Siobhan Cowan-Dickie, MSc, MCSP
Siobhan has been Associate Lead for Therapies and Professional Lead for Physiotherapy at The Royal Marsden since 2020. As Associate Lead of Therapies she is the strategic lead for all Therapies services in Breast, Lymphoedema, Sarcoma, Urology, Prehabilitation and Living with and Beyond Cancer. Prior to this, she was the Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist in Living with and Beyond Cancer. Siobhan’s clinical background is in breast cancer, she has a special interest in personalised care and supporting people to be more physically active before, during and after treatment. She has completed a Pre-Doctoral Fellowship exploring digital delivery of exercise and diet support in breast cancer. Siobhan has publications in the unmet supportive needs of people with breast cancer, lymphoedema, experience-based co-design projects in exploring physiotherapy and physical activity needs in breast cancer and across telehealth services in Therapies.
Michael Schermer, PT (n.p.) – ICPTO organizer
Coordinator of post-graduate education, Dutch Institute of Allied Health Care (NPi), Amersfoort, Netherlands