Research Interests

Lars Hermann Tang is a researcher and physiotherapist with vast skills in complex rehabilitation interventions and physical activity. Special expertise and interest lie in the 'mode of delivery' in everyday clinical rehabilitation across sectors, with extensive knowledge in the use of alternative delivery models and barriers and facilitators in exercise-based services. Other areas of expertise include quality monitoring and improvement in daily rehabilitation and health prevention services, as well as physical activity for patients with multimorbidity.

Lars is a 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 45 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 were 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 and has been an international representative and author on The National Audit of Cardiac Rehabilitation since 2015. This is a quality database that combines data from nearly 300 cardiac rehabilitation programs across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and is used to improve rehabilitation services in the UK.