Gloria Umerah, International Speaker for WCPT 2015

A renowned physiotherapist from Nigeria will be among the main speakers at the profession’s largest and most important international gathering, the WCPT Congress 2015, to be held next year in Singapore on 1st – 4th May, 2015. Gloria Umerah will be contributing to focused symposia featuring prominent international 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 on issues of global relevance to the profession.

In a press statement by WCPT extracted as follows: “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 ScientificCommittee, which has responsibility for putting together the programme for the WCPT

Congress. “Focused symposia are a very popular feature of our congresses, drawing largeaudiences. They provide the opportunity not just to hear from world authorities, but to engagewith 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 takehome messages for practice, research, education, management and policy. “WCPT’s priority is to make the congress as engaging as possible for as many people aspossible, whether they be physical therapists in clinical practice, research or education,” said Aimée Stewart.

Gloria Umerah far left at the WCPT Congress in Canada 2007 (Photo credits www.nigeriaphysio.net)

About the WCPT Congress

The WCPT Congress is organised every four years by the World Confederation for PhysicalTherapy. The last congress, held in Amsterdam in 2011, attracted 5,000 people. The 2015 congress will be held in Singapore on 1st – 4th May.Further details about the symposia and the programme for WCPT Congress 2015 may be found at: www.wcpt.org/congress/fs

Please contact Tracy Bury if you have specific queries: tbury@wcpt.org. 

We congratulate Gloria on this feat and wish her many more successes ahead as a good ambassador of the Society