Lars Hermann Tang

Lars Hermann Tang

Associate Professor, Central and Westh Zealand Hospital

Lars Hermann Tang is a researcher and physiotherapist with vast skills in complex rehabilitation interventions and physical activity. Special expertise and interest lie in everyday clinical rehabilitation across sectors, with extensive knowledge in the use of alternative delivery models and barriers and facilitators in exercise-based services and long-term health behavior across patients with chronic conditions. Other areas of expertise include cross-sectional collaboration, implementation, and quality monitoring and improvement of daily rehabilitation and preventive health services.

Lars is part of the leadership group in the research and implementation unit PROgrez at the Department of Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy, Næstved-Slagelse-Ringsted Hospitals. This unit comprises 47 researchers from 13 different professions. Additionally, Lars is the head of the 'Physical Activity - Delivery, Participation, and Maintenance' research cluster and the ‘Implementation and Evaluation’ unit in PROgrez. Over the last years he has with success co-lead the Exercise First program, a 15.6 d.kr kroner research program including 19 research and implementation projects partly funded by Region Zealand. Exercise First was very successful and has been extended with a permanent yearly operating grant of 9.5 million d.kr. Lars is affiliated with the University of York in the UK.

Central and Westh Zealand Hospital, PROgrez

PROgrez conducts research into physical activity and movement, both to develop new treatment pathways and to evaluate and improve those already in place.

PROgrez works across four research areas:

Improving access to physical activity and exercise for prevention and treatment
Exercise as an alternative to surgery and conventional treatment
Movement in everyday life
The quality of exercise and health interventions across sectors

Across these research areas, the projects in PROgrez are organised into the following strands: Physical activity – participation and retention; Self-management of illness, physical activity and everyday life; Exercise and Health; and Implementation of Research.