Disability in Paediatrics
Tracks
Track 1
Sunday, September 15, 2024 |
11:20 AM - 12:35 PM |
Plenary: Hall 10 |
Speaker
Assoc Prof Anri Human
Lecturer
University of Pretoria
DISCUSSION FORUM 13: Research in children with disabilities
11:20 AM - 12:05 PMBiography
Miss Alberta Amissah Rockson
Phd Student
University of Witwatersrand
"It's a Matter of Degrees". Quantifying Paediatric Burns at Ghana's Leading Burns Center.
12:05 PM - 12:20 PMBiography
Alberta Rockson is the Deputy Chief Physiotherapist, Rehabilitation Lead and a burns rehabilitation specialist with the National Surgery and Burns Center of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Ghana. She is also the Rehabilitation Lead for Interburns (UK) and Resurge Africa (UK), with a Masters in Disability, Rehabilitation and Development from KNUST (Ghana). Alberta is a reviewer of the Burns Chapter of Early Rehabilitation in Conflicts and Disasters and facilitates burns training within Africa and for UK Med.
Alberta served as President of the Ghana Physiotherapy Association (GPA) and is currently the National Chairperson (GPA). She is the General Secretary of World Physiotherapy Africa Region and also co-chair of the WRA Emergency Committee. Alberta enrolled as PhD student with the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.
Discussion Forum: Chair
Anri Human
Lecturer
University of Pretoria
Discussion Forum: Panellist
Precious Madzimbe
Phd Candidate
University of Cape Town
Discussion Forum: Panellist & Session Chair
Joanne Potterton
Professor
University of the Witwatersrand