To: WCPT member organisations, regions and subgroups
WCPT is pleased to announce the first main programme content and speakers for the WCPT Congress 2015. Please see the attached press release for details, including a full list of focused symposium sessions and speakers. For your convenience the wording of the press release has also been inserted below.
WCPT Press Release
For immediate release – 4th February 2014
Programme details for WCPT Congress 2015 announced
The World Confederation for Physical Therapy has announced a list of prominent international speakers for the world's largest and most important physical therapy gathering, to be held in Singapore 1st – 4th May 2015.
The programme for the WCPT Congress 2015 will include 25 focused symposia featuring speakers from across WCPT's five regions. Focused symposia are core congress sessions providing a forum where cutting edge research and practice perspectives can be explored and debated. Details of the newly announced focused symposia, including presenters, are provided in the attached sheets.
"We've had more proposals for focused symposia than ever before, which means we have been able to select topics with high calibre speakers that physical therapists all over the world will be excited to hear from," said Aimée Stewart, Chair of WCPT's International Scientific Committee, which has responsibility for putting together the programme for the WCPT Congress. "Focused symposia are a very popular feature of our congresses, drawing large audiences. They provide the opportunity not just to hear from world authorities, but to engage with them in discussion."
Each focused symposium is organised by a convenor, who leads an international group of speakers through linked research-focused presentations. The symposium ends with key take-home messages for practice, research, education, management and policy.
"WCPT's priority is to make the congress as engaging as possible for as many people as possible, whether they be physical therapists in clinical practice, research or education," said Aimée Stewart.
About the WCPT Congress
The WCPT Congress is organised every four years by the World Confederation for Physical Therapy. The last congress, held in Amsterdam in 2011, attracted 5,000 people. The 2015 congress will be held in Singapore 1st – 4th May.
Further details about the symposia and the programme for WCPT Congress 2015 can be found at: www.wcpt.org/congress/fs
Please contact Tracy Bury if you have specific queries: tbury@wcpt.org
Note to WCPT Member Organisations
Please use this information in your magazine, journal, newsletter or social media channels to help attract delegates to WCPT Congress 2015 and celebrate the inclusion of speakers from your country or region. Press releases will be sent shortly with further details on focused symposium speakers from your country.
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