Speakers
Please see the speaker biographies for BAPO regional Farnborough conference 2023
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11:05 – 11:30 |
Innovation in Practice based learning.
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Dr Gillian Rawlinson With a focus on growing the workforce, Gill will address the challenges and opportunities in educating the prosthetists and orthotists of the future and in particular how all stakeholders can develop practice based learning to drive quality, increase capacity and think differently about what constitutes practice based learning . All current P&O programmes are challenged by the limited placement capacity, especially in prosthetics. Gill’s presentation will explore what can be done to help the profession expand to meet the future needs of those patients who require access to high quality prosthetic and orthotic services. |
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11:30 – 11:55 |
The prosthetic and orthotic workforce: challenges for the 21st century |
Beverley Harden, MBE NHS England, Workforce Training and Education team is led by Beverley Harden, MBE who is also the Deputy Chief Allied Health Professions Officer for England. Since 2018 she led HEE’s work across England to enable employers to realise the full workforce potential of the 15 Allied Health Professions, secure and grow the future workforce and develop the skilled allied health support, assistant practitioner and technician workforce. Beverley has been closely involved in supporting the agenda for prosthetic and orthotic training and development, which includes commissioning work from BAPO on a range of topics including workforce data.
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3 |
11:55 – 12:10 |
Vision-Based Motion Capture for The Gait Analysis of Neurodegenerative Diseases: A Review |
David Vun David is currently a final-year undergraduate student at the University of Strathclyde, doing a prosthetics placement with Proactive Prosthetics. He is a recipient of a scholarship from the Ministry of Health Holdings in Singapore. He has a keen interest in gait analysis and the developments in computer vision technology, aspiring to bridge the gap between the technology available and current clinical practice.
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4 |
12:10 – 12:25 |
The Immediate Effects of Dorsiflexing the Footplate of a Rigid Ankle-Foot Orthosis (AFO) on Lower Limb Kinematics and User Feedback. |
Renad Albasri Renad graduated with an MSc in Prosthetics and Orthotics from the University of Strathclyde in 2022. Renad is currently working as an orthotist in Lincolnshire with a special interest in paediatrics and orthopaedics. She is also interested in research and improving evidence-based practice within orthotics, her research interests include experimenting with different AFO designs to innovate and challenge our current prescription practices. |
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12:25- 12:40 |
Communication between Prosthetic / Orthotic Clinicians and Technicians: Impact on Prosthetic/Orthotic Devices and Positive Relationships in the workplace. |
Thalanagama Arachchige Anushika Priyadarshani Dayananda Anushika Dayananda has been an Orthotics Associate Practitioner at Opcare, Cambridge, since 2018. She holds a higher national diploma in Prosthetics and Orthotics from the Sri Lanka School of Prosthetics and Orthotics (2016). Initially, she worked as a graduate dual practitioner in a rehabilitation centre before moving to the second largest hospital in Sri Lanka’s capital. There, she transformed an old technical workshop into a standard Prosthetics and Orthotics centre while providing a better patient care. Anushika has recently completed her Master’s degree in Prosthetics, Orthotics, and Rehabilitation Studies at the University of Strathclyde with merit |
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12:40 13:40 |
Lunch and exhibition |
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13:40 – 13:55 |
Exploratory study of a passive wearable device (Exoband) as walking aid in neuromuscular patients. |
Prof. Fausto A. Panizzolo Fausto Panizzolo is a Professor in Bioengineering and Sport Sciences. He has a MSc in Bioengineering from University of Padova; and a PhD in biomechanics from the University of Western Australia where he studied muscle function and energetics of locomotion in patients with extreme walking dysfunction. He worked as biomechanical lead of a DARPA-funded “soft exosuit” project at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering in Harvard University, USA. He is the author of key publications in exoskeleton technology and particularly in soft exoskeletons and their potential to reduce the metabolic cost of walking. |
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13:55 – 14:10 |
Bacterial adherence to prosthetic and orthotic material surfaces. |
Dominique Somerville Dominique is a 4th year P&O student at the University of Strathclyde and recently completed her dissertation on bacterial adhesion to prosthetic and orthotic material surfaces. |
9 |
14:15 |
Trauma informed care in P+O.
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Gemma Cassidy I qualified in Prosthetics and Orthotics at the University of Salford in 2004. I have worked as an orthotist for NHS trusts and private companies seeing patients in the public and private sector. I gained my diploma in Hypnotherapy and Advanced Psychotherapy in 2013. My interests lie within orthotics and the impact of AHP’s in addition to health psychology and health inequalities. I am proud to be a member of the P+O community. I have been the mental health and wellbeing lead for BAPO since 2020 and EDI lead since 2022, my aim is to contribute to a holistic and equitable culture in P+O. |
14:30 Break |
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15:00 – 15:25 |
Therapeutic Footwear and the need for Continuing Professional Development.
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Clara Bailey- Sponsored by OETT – Introduced by Faye Dearden Clara Bailey has worked at the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield for the past 23 years, where she is the Clinical Lead Orthotist. She is also the Blatchford Footwear Clinical Lead. Winner of the 2020 BAPO Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2023 Advancing Healthcare BAPO Award for Inspirational Innovators in P&O, footwear provision is Clara’s speciality and passion. She recognises the importance of therapeutic footwear to our ever growing and aging population, and provides mentorship and troubleshooting for colleagues who are having issues with footwear.
Clara’s passion for footwear extends to educating the next generation of orthotists, ensuring continued interest, progress and development in an area of orthotics that is often overlooked, despite having a potentially large impact on patients’ quality of life.
Orthotists possess a unique skill set that puts them in the perfect position to be the footwear providers of choice, but the profession needs CPD opportunities to increase and improve competencies.
Clara has created a 3-part footwear training course that she currently presents within the Blatchford team. The course has recently received its CPD accreditation which Clara is extremely proud of, and she has also written a book as a compliment to the course.
Clara will be talking at the BAPO regional conference about the need for continuing orthotic footwear education. Footwear provision is about more than just taking measurements. We need to have a comprehensive material and design knowledge, as well as finely honed psychological and biomechanical skills in order to ensure footwear is produced that has the best function, cosmesis and lifespan possible.
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10 |
15:25-15:40 |
Playful Learning and Innovations in Learning and Teaching in Prosthetics and Orthotics |
Suzanne Faulkner Suzanne Faulkner is a teaching fellow in Prosthetics and Orthotics, within the department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, she is also a facilitator trained in the LEGO® Serious Play® (LSP) methodology. Suzanne is passionate about enhancing the student experience by focusing on improving student engagement, utilising social media in learning and teaching and incorporating playful learning. She was recently awarded senior fellowship of the higher education academy. She has been nominated and shortlisted for several teaching excellence awards and is currently undertaking an EdD evaluating the use of LSP to enhance participation of students who have English as a second language, in group work activities.
X Handle –@SFaulknerPandO |
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15:40 – 15:55 |
Assistant Practitioners and Apprentices: our journey at the Sheffield Mobility & Specialised Rehabilitation Centre. |
Alison Stenson Zoe Savage Alison, Centre Manager and Zoe, Assistant Manager at Sheffield M&SRC lead the clinical service in Prosthetics and Orthotics focusing on excellent clinical care and service outcomes. Alison has had a keen interest in service outcomes and steers the development of the team and service to achieve this. Zoe leads on training and staff development whilst specialising in complex patient care in prosthetics and upper limb orthotics. |
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15:55 – 16:05 |
Close Award for best free paper
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Dr Nicky Eddison. Award for the best free paper is presented by Beth Foreman, Blatchford |
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