riworldcongress2020

Key Note Sessions

You can look forward to three days with a vibrant mix of thought-provoking key note sessions featuring expert speakers on the following topics:

Professionalizing Rehabilitation as a Discipline of Knowledge

This session discusses rehabilitation as a professional, global body of shared knowledge and problem solving in various settings of practice.

Title of the key note: The Learning Rehabilitation System

Speaker: Gerold Stucki (CH), Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Sciences and Medicine at the University of Lucerne and Director of Swiss Paraplegic Research (SPF).

Learn more about Prof. Stucki.

Rehabilitation as a Life-Long Health Strategy

This session highlights global examples of professional initiatives and living with rehabilitation, - your whole life or for the rest of your life.

Speaker: Matilde Leonardi (IT), Director of Unit at National Neurological Institute Besta.

Learn more about Dr. Leonardi.

The Many Goals of Rehabilitation

This session discusses the diversity of rehab goals in different parts of the world.

Speaker: William Levack (NZ), Dean and Head of Campus for University of Otago, Wellington.

Learn more about Prof. Levack.

Life Span and Rehabilitation

This session addresses the varieties of meaning in rehabilitation connected to the major periods across the lifespan.

Speaker: Mark R. Luborsky (US), Director of Aging & Health Disparities Research at the Institute of Gerontology, Wayne State University.

Learn more about Mark R. Luborsky.

Significant Rehabilitation Footprints within Policy Making

This session will discuss the many footprints already made, and the future visions of having strong rehab values in policies and political priorities.

Title of the key note: Rehabilitation, the health strategy of the 21st Century, really?

Speaker: Alarcos Cieza (ES), Coordinator at the World Health Organization.

Innovative Technologies in Rehabilitation

This session will discuss the current developments and the creative potential of future technology for rehabilitation stakeholders.

Speaker: David Lindeman (US), PhD, Director of Health, Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute (CITRIS), UC Berkeley, and Director, Center for Technology and Aging (CTA).

Learn more about Dr. Lindeman.

Apart from these six key note sessions, please note the list of our other Sessions formats

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