Keynote Speaker: Mrs Alberta Rockson
Saturday, September 14, 2024 |
2:20 PM - 3:20 PM |
Plenary: Hall 10 |
Speaker
Miss Alberta Amissah Rockson
Phd Student
University of Witwatersrand
Towards achieving the Vision of the World Rehabilitation Alliance
2:20 PM - 3:20 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.
Session Chair
Veronica Ntsiea
Head Of Department
University Of The Witwatersrand