Keynote speakers
Christoph Gutenbrunner (Germany)
Gerard Francisco (USA)
Larry Robinson (Canada)
Levent Oskaçar (Turkey)
Luz Helena Lugo (Colombia)
Stefano Negrini (Italy)
Walter Frontera (Puerto Rico)
Abena Tannor (Ghana)
Fary Khan (Australia)
Antony Duttine (EE:UU)
Jianan Li (China)
James Middleton (Australia)
William Ospina (Colombia)
Christoph Gutenbrunner (Germany)
Chair, Head of Department of rehabilitation Medicine at Hannover Medical School
Keynote 5: Post-/Long COVID-Rehabilitation – rehabilitation need, assessment, assignment and interventions
Date: Tuesday, 6 June Time: 10:30 – 11:00 Room: Getsemani Auditorium (second floor)
Gerard Emmanuel Francisco (EE.UU.)
Chairman and Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston McGovern Medical School Chief Medical Officer and Director, NeuroRecovery Research Center, TIRR Memorial Hermann.
Keynote 6: Looking Ahead: Exciting Prospects in Spasticity Management.
Date: Tuesday, 6 June Time: 14:00 – 14:30 Room: Getsemani Auditorium (second floor)
Lawrence R. Robinson (Canada)
Professor and Chief of the division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) at the University of Toronto; Program Chief at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre. Actual President of the Canadian Association of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R)
Keynote 9: Predicting Recovery from Peripheral Nerve Trauma
Date: Wednesday, 7 June Time: 10:30 – 11:00 Room: Getsemani Auditorium (second floor)
Levent Oskaçar (Turkey)
Professor at Hacettepe University Medical School, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) Ankara, Turkey
Keynote 8: Ultrasound and Artificial Intelligence
Date: Wednesday, 7 June Time: 10:00 – 10:30 Room: Getsemani Auditorium (second floor)
Luz Helena Lugo (Colombia)
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation specialist, Epidemiology with emphasis on Clinical Epidemiology master’s degree. Titular professor of Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia, Health Rehabilitation Group Coordinator, Co-president of ISPRM 2023 Congress in Cartagena, Associate editor Revista Colombiana de Medicina Física y Rehabilitación, Associate editor Revista Rehabilitación (SERMEF)
Keynote 11: Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine Challenges in Colombia and Latin America
Date: Wednesday, 7 June Time: 14:30 – 15:00 Room: Getsemani Auditorium (second floor)
Stefano Negrini (Italy)
Prof. Stefano Negrini is full professor at the University “La Statale” (Milan), Director of the Evidence-Based Rehabilitation Lab at Research Hospital Galeazzi-Sant’Ambrogio (Milan) and Scientific Director of ISICO (Italian Scientific Spine Institute). He is Director of Cochrane Rehabilitation and co-Chair of the Council of Cochrane, Italian Delegate of the European Union of Medical Specialists, PRM Section, Academician of the European Academy of RM. Scopus H-Index: 49 – PubMed papers: >470 – lectures: >120 – awards >20 – International Meetings/Courses/Masters >40.
Keynote 2: “New perspectives on evidence in Rehabilitation: from history to future” Stefano Negrini (Italy)
Date: Monday, 5 June Time: 14:00 – 14:30 Room: Getsemani Auditorium (second floor)
Walter Frontera (Puerto Rico)
Professor School of Medicine University of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine, ISPRM President 2018-2020,Editor in Chief American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
Keynote 1: The Challenge of Health Longevity: the importance of Rehabilitation
Date: Monday, 5 June Time: 8:30 – 9:30 Room: Getsemani Auditorium (second floor)
Abena Yeboaa Tannor (Ghana)
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Sports and Family Physician, starting the first locally – led multidisciplinary Rehabilitation Medicine Service in Ghana.
Keynote 3: Training PRM physicians in low-to-middle income countries- can we do things differently?
Date: Monday, 5 June Time: 14:30 – 15:00 Room: Getsemani Auditorium (second floor)
Fary Khan (Australian)
Director of Rehabilitation Services of the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Director Australian Rehabilitation Research Centre, Clinical Professor Department of Medicine, the University of Melbourne and the Nossal Institute of Global Health and Monash University. She works with the Executive for the UN-International Council for Caring Communities- representing medical disability.
Keynote 10: Evolving role of Rehabilitation Medicine in Global Health
Date: Wednesday, 7 June Time: 14:00 – 14:30 Room: Getsemani Auditorium (second floor)
Antony Duttine (EE.UU)
WHO Head Quarters in Geneva as Rehabilitation Technical Lead. Advisor disability and rehabilitation at Pan American Health Organization. Physical rehabilitation, Rehabilitation in global health, Care for victims of torture. Community Based Rehabilitation.
Keynote 4:
Date: Tuesday, 6 June Time: 10:00 – 10:30 Room: Getsemani Auditorium (second floor)
Jianan Li (China)
Professor, chief , physician, PhD student supervisor, International Associate of the National Academy of Medicine(USA) , is the First President of Rehabilitation Medical School and Director of rehabilitation Medical Center of Jiangsu Province Hospital, Chairman of Chinese Society of PMR from 2014 to 2017, chief editor of chinese Journal of Rehabilitation
Keynote 4: Application of wearable devices for digital health portraits in rehabilitation medicine – rational, practice and future.
Date: Tuesday, 6 June Time: 14:30 – 15:00 Room: Getsemani Auditorium (second floor)
James Middleton (Australia)
Clinical Director of the State Spinal Cord Injury Service, NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation and senior Medical Specialist for the Spinal Outreach Service. He is also Professor of rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Sidney in the John Walsh center for Rehabilitation Research, Sidney Medical School Northern
Keynote 12 (Sidney Licht Lecture): Towards advancing rehabilitation outcomes for people with spinal cord injury through clinical research, practice and leadership
Date: Thursday, 8 June Time: 11:30 – 12:30 Room: Getsemani Auditorium (second floor)
William Ospina (Colombia)
Colombian poet, essayist and novelist. Winner of the Romulo Gallegos Prize for his novel El país de la canela, part of a trilogy about the invasion and conquest of South America
El encuentro de dos mundos (el viejo y el nuevo) y los saberes mestizos.
Date: Wednesday, June 7 June Time: 10:00 – 10:30 Room: Getsemani Auditorium (second floor)