Principles to Practice: ICF Tools from the World Health Organization

Brief outline (Detailed outline)

This workshop will give a unique opportunity to see how researchers and clinicians have embraced the core concepts of the ICF and how this can be furthered through the use of the World Health Organization (WHO) tools. Participants will be introduced to a range of WHO tools which will assist physical therapists in their use and understanding of ICF.  An interactive, hands-on program will highlight the uses of ICF and potential applications across physical therapy settings. By presenting concrete clinical and research examples alongside education on the framework and related tools, participants should be able to easily relate the materials to their own practice.

Objectives

• To provide hands on experience in the use of WHO tools for ICF (e-learning tools, coding guidelines, mapping strategies, measurement tools).
• To enable participants to identify the benefits of using the ICF in their practice and strategies to develop ICF based data collections for clinical, administrative, research and reporting purposes.
• To provide beginner and intermediate users of ICF with international perspectives and strategies for ICF education and implementation (for a range of stakeholders policy, practice, research, management).

Organiser 

Janice Miller (Canada)

For the past 15 years Janice has worked on a range on national and international projects with the Canadian Institute for Health Information and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, focussed on clinical, administrative, government, university and research sectors.  She has had continuous involvement in the development and ongoing implementation, maintenance and updating of ICF since 1996. She is the current task group leader on environmental factors of the WHO Functioning and Disability Reference Group.

As a clinician, Janice specialized in manual therapy and in cardiac rehabilitation.  She continues to be involved with the Canadian Alliance of Physiotherapy Regulators, as a credentialling evaluator.

Speakers

Catherine Sykes (WCPT Secretariat)

Catherine joined the World Confederation for Physical Therapy in 2006 as coordinator of the ICF program; since January 2009 she has taken on a broader professional policy role. For the past ten years she also worked on the development of the ICF and on data development and data capture in the field of disability. She continues to have a role in Network of the WHO Family of International Classifications, leading and participating in tasks of the Functioning and Disability Reference Group. Catherine has lived and worked in the UK, USA and Australia as well as undertaking short term commissions in Africa and Asia.

Jennifer Jelsma (South Africa)

Professor Jennifer Jelsma, PhD is a Professor and Head of the Division of Physiotherapy at the University of Cape Town. Her research interests include the epidemiology of burden of disease due to functional limitations as well as paediatric neurology and she has given over 30 presentations at international congresses and has over 50 peer reviewed publications. She has run introductory courses on the use of the ICF in Tanzania and Kenya. Her clinical area of expertise is paediatric neurology and she bases her teaching on the ICF framework. She is a member of the South African Physiotherapy and the British Columbian Physiotherapy associations, the Functioning and Disability Reference Group of the WHO, the EuroQoL group and was awarded a rating as a scientist by the National Research Foundation of South Africa.

Claire Kerr (United Kingdom)

Claire qualified as a physiotherapist in 1997 and worked in various clinical and research positions before obtaining a PhD in 2006 and taking up a Lecturer in Rehabilitation position within the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland.  She currently teaches on undergraduate and post-graduate nursing courses in orthopaedics and paediatrics.  Her research focuses on cerebral palsy in children and young people, with particular interest in the efficacy of rehabilitation techniques, gait analysis, measurement tools, and health and well-being.  Claire also maintains a small clinical caseload in a school for children with physical disabilities in Belfast.

Brona McDowell (United Kingdom) 

Dr Brona McDowell PhD; Clinical Specialist/Physiotherapist, Gait Analysis Service, Musgrave Park Hospital, Belfast, N. Ireland & Honorary Lecturer, Queen’s University Belfast.  Brona has worked within the Gait Analysis Service at Musgrave Park for the past 14 years. As a clinician, she specializes in motion analysis in children with physical disabilities and as a researcher, she has been involved in a number of research projects in the areas of Cerebral Palsy (CP), Myelomeningocele, and Talipes Equinovarus.  She is particularly intersted in the global wellbeing of children with CP and her population-based research in this area includes aspects of orthopaedic impairment, function & energy efficiency, activity, participation and service provision.  She has over 25 publications in peer reviewed journals and is on the editorial boards for the journals, Gait & Posture and Physical & Occupational Therapy in Pediatrics.

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