Dr. Liane Simmel is a sports medicine doctor, osteopath, and sports psychology coach. She worked as a dancer for over three decades. Today, she is a practicing dance medicine doctor with her own practice in Munich and heads the “Fit for Dance” Institute for Dance Medicine. She is a lecturer in dance medicine and is active throughout Europe for the health of dancers. As the initiator and long-time board member of ta.med e.V., the German-speaking dance medicine organization, she has significantly influenced its establishment and development. Her books “Dance Medicine in Practice” and “Nutrition for Dancers” have been published in several languages and have established themselves as standard works in dance medicine. For her pioneering work in dance medicine, she was awarded the German Dance Prize Recognition Award.
