NAC region webinar series
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This free webinar is only open to members of World Physiotherapy member organisations in the NAC region.
A certificate of attendance will be provided.
Webinar title
Health promotion, prevention and wellness around non-communicable diseases
Date and time
13 April 2023, 23:00 UTC
Speakers
Sibyl Edward is a physiotherapist from Saint Lucia with over 30 years of experience. Sibyl is currently the head of the rehabilitation department at the Millennium Heights Medical Complex, in Castries, Saint Lucia, and a part-time adjunct lecturer in the online tDPT program at Utica University, New York. At Utica, she has facilitated many courses, including prevention and wellness and global health care.
She is the chair of the North America Caribbean region of World Physiotherapy, a founding member of the Physiotherapy Association of Saint Lucia, of which she is the current secretary and a past president. Sibyl is a member of the adhoc committee of the Allied Health Council of Saint Lucia and a member of the Environmental Physiotherapy Association.
Melissa Hall attended the University of the West Indies Mona, school of physiotherapy and graduated in 2012 with a bachelor of science in physiotherapy. After graduating and completing internship, she began working for the North East Regional Health Authority at the St Ann's Bay Regional Hospital where she spent over five years honing her skills as a physiotherapist. While there, she was able to use her knowledge and experience to help people recover from diagnosed illnesses and injuries. She also worked briefly at the Moneague College in the faculty of social sciences as an assistant lecturer, where she taught disabilities studies to the students pursuing the associates degree in social work. She is employed by the St Ann Health Department where she continues to provide quality care to patients from all walks of life and helping them reach their rehabilitation goals and to make healthy lifestyle changes.
Dawn Magnusson is an assistant professor in the physical therapy program at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus. She received a PhD in population health sciences, a certificate in global health, and an MS in physical therapy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dawn completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in general academic pediatrics, with a focus on health disparities research, through the department of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She coordinates the delivery of health promotion and wellness content within the University of Colorado DPT curriculum and serves as a member of the American Physical Therapy Association's health promotion and wellness council. Dawn led two national studies to explore the delivery of population health, health promotion, and disease prevention content in entry-level physical therapist education and establish related competencies.
Debra Treasure is the manager, physiotherapy services at St Ann’s Bay Regional Hospital (SABRH), in St Ann, Jamaica. She is a registered physiotherapist and completed her tertiary studies at the School of Physical Therapy in Jamaica, graduating in 1996. Since completing internship, she has been employed by the ministry of health at SABRH and became manager, physiotherapy services, in 2008.
Debra is the chairperson of the public sector physiotherapists’ committee of the Jamaica Physiotherapy Association. Over the past 10 years, she has sought to develop initiatives aimed at reaching more persons in need of rehabilitation. Through the help of the RHA, several programmes have been introduced into primary care facilities and communities. Arising from these programmes, the first physiotherapist to be directly employed to primary care was achieved in Jamaica.
Webinar description
This webinar will provide background information on health promotion, prevention, and wellness in the context of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the NAC region, and the role of the physiotherapist in this emerging area of practice. The webinar will also include a discussion on the following issues:
- How to integrate health promotion, wellness, and prevention activities in physiotherapy practice and academic programmes.
- Barriers to integrating health promotion/prevention and wellness programmes.
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