CONGRESS 2010 – St. John’s, Nfld.
July 22nd to July 25th 2010
PFC Board Member Dina Brooks Named Recipient of the Enid Graham Memorial Lecture
PFC Board Member Dina Brooks, BSc(PT). MSc. PhD. was presented the Enid Graham Memorial Lecture at Congress 2010. There was a mixture of memory, reflection, and professional insight that both impressed and emotionally moved all those in the audience.
Dina’s credentials are long-standing. She is an active member of the Canadian Physiotherapy Association, and is an Associate Professor, Graduate Coordinator, and Acting Chair of the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of Toronto. She is also the Scientific Editor of Physiotherapy Canada, Canadian Research Chair for Rehabilitation for Chronic Obstructive Disease, Research Representative for the Cardiorespiratory Division of CPA, and Chair of the Scientific Awards Committee for the Physiotherapy Foundation of Canada.
Silent Auction
More than $7,000 was raised for research by the Silent Auction during Congress 2010.
Items varied from...
a Flip UltraHD Camcorder thanks to the College of Physiotherapists of Ontario,
to a delightful pair of life-sized puffins from The Crafty Privateers!
We would like to especially thank the donors for their generosity.
In addition, Divisions and Branches of CPA supported us with financial donations as well as with quilts, photographs, jewellery, certificates, books, luggage, pottery, sculptures and handcrafts.
Finally a special and heartfelt thank you to Suzanne Sheppard, Lorie Paterson, Joan Cranston and Deb Noseworthy for their amazing generosity and several months of dedicated volunteer work in organizing the event.
PFC Run/Walk for Research
Thanks to the efforts of Neil Pearson and his colleagues, the PFC Run-Walk was a huge success, not just because of the more than $6,500 that was raised (up from $5,000 in 2009) but because of the energy and enthusiasm displayed at 6 a.m. on a beautiful sunny Saturday morning in that most lovely of cities, St. John’s Newfoundland.
...of course not everybody ran ALL the time...
Thank you again, everyone!
Awards
Congress is a time for celebrating achievement. PFC was delighted to be able to congratulate eight of this year’s crop of winners during the awards luncheon announcement. It was especially good to have George Tilley of the Heart and Stroke Foundation to shake the hands of Marianne Thornton and Revital Hacmon, this year’s recipients of the HSFC/PFC Scholarship in Physiotherapy Research.
Ann Collins Whitmore Student Competition
Ange Capson
PFC is delighted to announce that the judges at Congress 2010 selected Ange Capson from Queen’s University as the winner of the 2010 ACW Student Competition. Projects from across Canada were submitted, and an exceptionally high standard became evident.. Members of the Scientific Awards Committee selected three finalists to receive $1,500 each towards expenses involved in attending Congress in St. John’s Newfoundland. There was great excitement as the three gifted students explained their work to an attentive audience on Sunday morning. The judges deliberated, and Ange was selected as the winner, with her project entitled “The Role Of Lumbopelvic Posture In Pelvic Floor Muscle Activation And Intra-Vaginal Pressure Generation In Continent Women”. Congratulations, Ange!
The CPA Legacy Research Award was given to second place finisher Megan Towns and her team from the University of Toronto for their project “Inpatient Pulmonary Rehabilitation: The Relationship Between Anxiety, Depression and Clinical Outcome Measures in People with COPD”. Other members of the team included Isabel Aganon, Lauren Barrett, Catherine Darling, Michelle Lee, and Kylie Hill.