The Second Physical Therapy Summit on Global Health: Promoting Healthy Lifestyles to Reduce Disease Burden

Brief outline (Detailed outline)

To prevent, reverse and manage lifestyle conditions, hence, reduce their burden, health behavior change warrants being a primary clinical competency for physical therapists this century. We examine ways that WCPT countries are promoting health behavior change societally and clinically in every patient; and how physical therapists can participate cross culturally.

Objectives

• To understand about health behavior change initiatives (societal/family/individual) within and across WCPT regional member countries.
• To become an agent of change regarding lifestyle influences on health and wellbeing with attention to cultural distinctions.
• To participate in cross cultural dialogue and develop a working document for dissemination.

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Organiser

Elizabeth Dean (Canada)

Professor Elizabeth Dean is on faculty in the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and Visiting Professor, with Leeds Metropolitan University, Faculty of Health, Leeds, UK, since 2005. Her academic and clinical career and experiences have spanned the “corners of the globe” with invitations to Australia, Belgium, Brazil, China, Denmark, Greece, Hong Kong, Iceland, Japan, Kuwait, Libya, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Poland, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, as well as the United States and Canada. Because ‘lifestyle conditions’ are pandemic not only in high-income countries, her research and publications have increasingly focused on integrating and translating knowledge of cultural relativism and diversity in promoting health and wellness worldwide, and exploiting evidence-based non invasive physical therapy interventions (healthy lifestyles including health education and exercise) to prevent and, in some cases, reverse, as well as manage these conditions that are associated with enormous human suffering and societal cost. Along with an international team, Dr. Dean convened ‘The First Physical Therapy Summit on Global Health’ at the World Confederation of Physical Therapy Congress 2007. Her substantive area is oxygen transport as a basis for the diagnosis and management of primary and secondary oxygen transport dysfunction within the framework of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health. She is co-editor (with Donna Frownfelter) and co-author of ‘Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Physical Therapy: Evidence and Practice (4th edition), Elsevier:PA, 2006). She was invited to serve as Special Issue editor for ‘Physical Therapy in the 21st Century: a New Evidence-informed Practice Paradigm and Implications’ (Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 2009). Her work through private practice and the UBC Post Polio Clinic has taken her to Pakistan on an Asia Pacific University Scholar’s Award. She spent over a year as Senior of the Cardiovascular/ Cardiorespiratory Team with the Kuwait Dalhousie Project in Kuwait, and a year as a resident Visiting Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. 

Speakers

Gloria Umerah (Nigeria)

Gloria Umerah, an Assistant Director (Physiotherapy) in the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (UNTH), Enugu, graduated in BSc Physiotherapy in 1978 from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. She has been in the employ of UNTH, Enugu, since 1989.

A committed clinician with a passion for Professional Excellence and patient/client optimal recovery/progress, Gloria has had a few Professional Courses (Bobath in London) for management of neurological conditions, (paediatrics and adults). She has conducted several workshops on Treatment of Adult Stroke and also on Management of Children with Cerebral Palsy at national, state and local levels in Nigeria. She is co-founder and Executive Director of the Cerebral Palsy Foundation of Nigeria, (CPFN).

Gloria has been a clinical instructor to physiotherapy undergraduates for over a decade
At WCPT Congress in Barcelona in 2003, an acquaintance with Prof Elizabeth Dean ignited an affinity for Cardiopulmonary Physiotherapy. She therefore co-ordinated a week certificated workshop on physiotherapy  in the Management of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Conditions at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria. This progressed to being onboard the First Global Health Summit in Vancouver 2007. Working towards more capacity building in Cardiopulmonary Physiotherapy, Gloria is determined to exploit this professional specialty to curb and nip at the bud, the danger of ‘Diseases of Civilization’ in Nigeria in particular and Africa in general.

She was in the Nigeria Medical Rehabilitation Therapists Board from 2004 to 2007.

Her faith in the Lord Jesus Christ propels her commitment to professional excellence.

Margot Skinner (New Zealand)

Margot is Deputy Dean at the School of Physiotherapy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand and Associate Dean, Clinical Studies. She has been involved in teaching for over 20 years and is the Team Leader for Cardiopulmonary Physiotherapy. Her teaching on the undergraduate physiotherapy programme includes cardiovascular and pulmonary content, global health, ethics and professionalism and clinical practice.

Although Margot has a major administrative role at the School her research interests include obstructive sleep apnea, global health, and analysis of thoracic posture including elite singers, people with asthma, people who are obese and athletes in particular young female rowers. In addition, she has an academic interest in the development of physiotherapy curricula and education for health professionals.

Margot has published mainly in the area of conservative management for people diagnosed with sleep apnea as well as posture of the thoracic spine as it relates to the areas of research interest. She has  presented in over 15 countries and has a long standing involvement in professional affairs at the local, national and international level, this perspective is reflected in her teaching practice, and clinical and research interests.

Memberships/honours: Margot has been an Executive Member, World Confederation for Physical Therapy since 2007 and is the Past President, WCPT Asia Western Pacific Region. She is also a  Past President, New Zealand Society of Physiotherapists and recently received Honorary Life Membership from the Society. She is also a Fellow of the New Zealand College of Physiotherapy.

Armele Dornelas de Andrade (Brazil)

Dr. Armele Dornelas de Andrade, professor of the Departments of Physiotherapy, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, specializes in cardiorespiratory physiotherapy and physiology. Her professional training includes doctoral studies at the University of Aix Marseille, France, and postdoctoral studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada. In her department, she is Head, Coordinator if Master of Science Program in Physiotherapy, Cardiopulmonary Physiotherapy Laboratory,  and Coordinator of  Cardiorespiratory Physiotherapy Specialization. Her research focuses on respiratory muscles, asthma, COPD, and recently lifestyle conditions. She has published in the importants scientific journals. Her honors include: review panel member, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy for the prestigious Brazilian research-funding agency (CNPq, FACEPE, CAPES and others); and frequent invited reviewer and speaker. Now, she is President of Brazilian Association of Reachears and Pósgraduation in Physioterapy (ABRAPG-Ft).

Grainne O’Donoghue (Ireland)

Grainne O’Donoghue is a research associate in the School of Public Health, Physiotherapy and Population Science, University College Dublin, where she also instructs on both the physiotherapy and medicine programmes. She is a physiotherapist (BSc Physio) with post graduate qualifications in both Sports and Exercise Medicine (Diploma and MSc). Her research addresses the matter of revolutionizing professional entry-level physiotherapy education to deal with contemporary challenges. She has recently completed her doctorate thesis, the focus of which was physiotherapy education in relation to physical actvity, exercise and health education for contemporary physiotherapy practice. With the focus of healthcare moving towards wellness and prevention and the increasing prevalence of lifestyle related disease, she believes it imperative that future physiotherapists are optimally prepared to prevent and manage such conditions. Prior to commencing research in 2006, Grainne worked clinically for several years. She still continues to work in a clinical capacity intermittently to maintain contact with patients and her clinical colleagues, providing her with extensive knowledge of and expertise in managing people with chronic conditions.

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