Prof. Rob P.A. Janssen, MD, PhD

About Prof. Rob P.A. Janssen, MD, PhD

Orthopedic Knee Surgeon & Director Orthopedic Surgery Residency program - Máxima Medical Center Eindhoven/Veldhoven, The Netherlands.
Full Professor Knee Reconstruction - Orthopaedic Biomechanics, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands.

Rob Janssen studied Medicine in France, USA and The Netherlands. He obtained his MD degree in 1994 and then trained as an orthopedic surgeon. Since 2002, Janssen is consultant orthopedic knee surgeon at Máxima Medical Center, where he chairs the tertiary referral STZ Center of Expertise for Complex Knee Injuries and the European ESSKA-PAMI Research Center for Pediatric ACL Injuries. He treats elite sports injuries, traumatic disorders, meniscus and cruciate ligament lesions, multi-ligament injuries, cartilage disorders and osteoarthritis of the knee. Janssen also works as knee consultant for the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB) and TeamNL. He is Course Director of the annual international Arthroscopy & Arthroplasty Utrecht Courses. Rob Janssen is an international keynote speaker on topics of pediatric and adult ACL injuries.
He received the MedNet Toparts Orthopaedic Surgeon Award in the Netherlands in 2011, 2012 and 2013. He is Past President of the Dutch Arthroscopy Society (2011-2014).

In 2016, Rob P.A. Janssen obtained his PhD at Maastricht University entitled Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction & Accelerated Rehabilitation. Hamstring tendons, Remodelling and Osteoarthritis.
In 2016, he was appointed Director of the Orthopedic Surgery Residency Program at Máxima Medical Center. In 2017, he studied Value Measurement in Health Care at Harvard Business School, USA. In 2019, He was appointed Professor Value-Based Health Care at Fontys University of Applied Sciences (Eindhoven, The Netherlands). In 2025, Rob Janssen was appointed Full Professor Knee Reconstruction at Department of Biomedical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands.

He has been involved in clinical and scientific research since 1998, focusing on adult and pediatric ACL injuries, complex knee ligament injuries, sports medicine, cartilage and osteoarthritis. Rob P.A. Janssen has published more than 100 scientific publications and has co-authored various (inter)national knee guidelines for physicians and physiotherapists. He has a special interest in translational research – using fundamental research results to generate meaningful health outcomes – on the topic of remodelling of human tendon autografts in anterior cruciate ligament reconstructions. His research ambition is to develop biomechanical, biological and imaging models for personalized medicine in adult and pediatric anterior cruciate ligament knee reconstructions.