PRELIMINARY SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

The scientific programme includes keynote speech, a focused symposium, workshops, oral and poster presentation.

EVENING		3 October 2008 (Friday)
	4:00 pm onwards	Registration
	5:00 - 7:30 pm	Welcome Reception
MORNING		4 October 2008 (Saturday)				5 October 2008 (Sunday)
	8:30 – 9:00 am	Registration			8:30 – 9:00am	Registration
	9:00 – 9:30 am	Opening Ceremony			9:00 – 10:00 am	Session VI Graduate Student Sharing Session Chaired by Graduate Students
	9:30 – 10:15 am	Session I: Plenary lecture Exercise for Bone Health Knees up in osteoarthritis: the role of exercise in slowing disease progression and managing symptoms Prof. Kim Bennell			10:00 – 10:45am	Session VII: Plenary Lecture: Exercise and Cardiac Health Dr. Sandy Howell
	10:15 – 10:30 am	Tea & Coffee Break			10:45 – 11:00 am	Tea & Coffee Break
	10:30 am – 12:30 pm	Session II: Focus Symposium Health promotion in the Asia-pacific region – are we heading the right direction? Prof. Jocelyn Agcaoili Ms. Cathy Bay Dr Ching Cheuk Tuen Dr. Chulee Jones Dr. Celia Tan Dr. Tsauo Jau-Yih Prof. Sumio Yamada			11:00 am – 11:30 am	Session VIII Poster Presentation
					11:30 am – 12:30 pm	Session IX: Free Papers
						IXA: Health Promotion	IXB: Injury Prevention
AFTERNOON	12:30 – 2:00 pm	Lunch			12:30 – 2:00 pm	Lunch
	2:00 – 3:00 pm	Session III:			2:00 – 2:45 pm	Session X: Plenary Lecture Sports and Nutrition for All Ages Prof . Mark Tarnopolsky
		IIIA: SMART I: ACL*		IIIB: Free Papers Exercise for Bone Health
	3:00 – 4:00 pm	Session IV:			2:45 – 4:00 pm	Session XI: Free Papers
		IVA: SMART II: The Shoulder*		IVB: Free Papers Exercise for Occupational Health in the Workplace	2:45 – 4:00 pm	XIA: Sports and Nutrition for All Ages	XIB: Psychosocial Health
	4:00 – 4:30 pm	Tea & Coffee Break			4:00 – 4:30 pm	Tea & Coffee Break
	4:30 – 5:30 pm	Scientific Session V: Workshops			4:30 – 5:30 pm	Session XII: Plenary Lecture Psychosocial Health Dr Trisha Leahey
		WS-A: Rehabilitation based on electro-diagnosis	WS-B: Tai Chi for People with Chronic Disease	WS-C: Models for Tele-rehabilitation
	6:30 pm	Conference dinner			6:30 pm	Presentation of Awards Harbour Cruise & Dinner

Remarks:
* SMART: Sports Medicine And Rehabilitation Therapy
Surgeon and physiotherapists' view and approach in managing common musculo-skeletal disorders I : ACL ; II: The Shoulder

 

Focused Symposium

Health promotion in the Asia-pacific region - are we heading the right direction?

Focused Symposium Health promotion in the Asia-pacific region - are we heading the right direction? The focus in health care has shifted globally from acute service provision to disease prevention and community care, with health promotion becoming a task for all health care professions. This symposium provides an opportunity for participants to hear health promotion strategies in rehabilitation from experienced health care practitioners and educators in the Asia-Pacific region. Speakers in this Symposium include:

- Ms Cathy Bray,

- Professor Sumio Yamada

Prof. Sumio Yamada is a physiotherapist and Professor and Director of the Centre for Elderly Fitness and Secondary Prevention Research in the School of Health Science, Nagoya University, Japan. Yamada's research interests include the role of exercise in the prevention of disease progression in patients with congestive heart failure as well as exercise based life style change in cardiac patients. He is in charge of nation-wide multi-central cohort trial which has just started with 26 hospitals in Japan and focuses on the course of life function and the effect of exercise on it in patients with congestive heart failure. His current research also focuses on the prevention of recurrence of stroke, especially in light stroke patients.

- Professor Jocelyn Agcaoili

- Dr. Celia Tan

- Dr. Tsauo Jau-Yih

There is a paradigm shift in health care from treatment and care in hospital to health promotion in community globally. However, Most PTs in Taiwan are employed in acute and chronic care hospitals or outpatient clinics. Physical therapy involvement in health promotion is emerging slowly. The first government endorsed big-scale physical therapy service in community commenced after the 921 earthquake in 1999. A health promotion and long term care project was implemented in the earthquake area for 3 years in central Taiwan. In 2004, Taipei City government initiated a community health experimental project with cooperation of Taipei Society of Physical Therapy which led to a routine service nowadays. Researchers have experimented on the effects of physical therapists-lead community health promotion programs for fall prevention or intervention for frailty and osteoporosis. Yet these results failed to promote a nation-wide movement of physical therapy services into the community. We, PTs in Taiwan, are on the way to community.

- Dr. Chulee Jones

- Dr. Regina Ching

Dr Regina Ching is Assistant Director of Health (Health Promotion). Dr Ching obtained her medical degree from the University of Hong Kong in 1984 and her Master Degree in Public Health Medicine from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in 1992. She is Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Medicine (Community Medicine).

Dr Ching oversees the Central Health Education Unit and the Community Liaison Division which are health promotion arms of the Department of Health. She is responsible for a number of major health promotion initiatives as well as strengthening the workforce capacity for health promotion in Hong Kong.

 

 

The duration of the symposium will be one and a half hour.