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WCPT E-Update - May 2019
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| WCPT President and Vice President elected at General Meeting |
Emma Stokes has been elected as President and Melissa Locke has been elected as Vice President of WCPT.
Voting delegates from 107 WCPT member organisations took part in the
election at WCPT’s General Meeting on Thursday 9th May at the Starling
Hotel Geneva, Switzerland.
The following regional board members have also been elected:
- Jean Damascene Gasherebuka (Africa Region)
- Yasushi Uchiyama (Asia Western Pacific Region)
- John Xerri de Caro (European Region)
- Stacy de Gale (North America Caribbean)
- Daniel Wappenstein (South America)
Read the press release. |
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| 13 new member organisations admitted to WCPT |
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13
physical therapy associations were admitted to WCPT at its General
Meeting on 8th May 2019 in Geneva. This brings the total number of
member organisations to 121.
The new member organisations are the physical therapy associations from:
Bhutan, Costa Rica, Georgia, Haiti, Ivory Coast, Kosovo, Madagascar,
Mali, Morocco, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Senegal, Sudan.
Read the press release
See the full list of WCPT member organisations |
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| Physical therapists honoured at WCPT Awards Dinner |
Australian
physical therapist Anne Moseley was awarded the Mildred Elson Award,
WCPT's highest honour, for her outstanding contribution to the physical
therapy profession as a clinician, teacher, and researcher and, in
particular, for her leadership and commitment to the promotion of
evidence-based physical therapy through the Physiotherapy Evidence
Database or PEDro.
Daniel Wappenstein Deller, president of the Ecuadorian Society of
Physiotherapy and the coordinator of the project humanitarian support in
physical therapy earthquake Ecuador 16A was presented with a WCPT
Humanitarian Service Award.
Christina H Opava was awarded a WCPT Leadership in Rehabilitation Award
for her contribution to the professional advancement of physical
therapy. She is a pioneer in the field of physical therapy and
rheumatology.
Lorena Enebral Perez was presented with a posthumous WCPT Humanitarian
Service Award. A Spanish physical therapist, Lorena had worked as a
humanitarian aid worker in Ethiopia, Malawi, Tanzania, and the Sahara.
In 2016 she began working in Afghanistan where she was fatally shot in
2017 while working with a service user of the ICRC physical
rehabilitation centre in Mazar-i-Sharif.
WCPT International Service Awards were also awarded to:
Hana I Alsobayel – Saudi Arabia
Annalie Basson – South Africa
Sarah Bazin – UK
Aicha Benyaich – Belgium
Jennifer M Bottomley – USA
Gill Brook – UK
Charlotte Hager – Sweden
Alice Jones – Hong Kong
Shunsuke Kudo – Japan
Brenda Myers – UK
Guy Simoneau – Canada
Read the press release
Biographies for all award recipients and photographs from the WCPT Awards Dinner will be available on the WCPT website shortly. |
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| New WCPT policies approved at General Meeting |
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The following were approved at WCPT's General Meeting:
See the full list of WCPT policies
WCPT's policy statements set out its agreed stance or opinion on a
range of topics. They are important tools for informing health and
social policy around the world, and furthering the development of the
profession and service delivery. |
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| New open access journal |
This
month saw the publication of the first issue of The Lancet Digital
Health, an open access journal in the Lancet family. It is committed to
publishing high-quality original research, comment, and correspondence
contributing to promoting digital technologies in health practice
worldwide.
Access the first issue |
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