BAPO is delighted to be delivering our final conference of the year alongside our colleagues at the Royal College of Podiatry. This key collaboration underlines the importance of working together across the multi-disciplinary team. Sharing our experience and knowledge to empower the profession to enable the user. The conference will be held at
You can find information regarding the venue here: https://www.sec.co.uk/
Delegate parking is in the MSCP and there are details on this on the SEC website – Car & Parking | How to Get Here | SEC, Glasgow – there is a cost for parking.
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Keynote Speakers
Nick is a consultant orthotist and clinical lead at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust. As part of his wider role, he has worked in elite sport for over 15 years. He currently looks after 7 of the 10 premiership rugby teams and has looked after the men`s England rugby team since 2018. He has worked with GB rowing and Para Rowing since 2012. He has worked with Olympic swimming, skiing, and snowboarding. He works with Premier League, Scottish Premier League, Championship and League One football teams and both Hampshire and Somerset Cricket.
Professor Cynthia Formosa PhD, MSc (Brighton) FFPM RCPS (Glasg.): Cynthia Formosa qualified as a State Registered Podiatrist from the Department of Health, Malta in February 1989. Cynthia Formosa is currently working on full-time basis as a Professor with the University of Malta and is the Head of Podiatry Department inside the Faculty of Health Sciences. Cynthia has published over 130 papers in both local and peer-reviewed international journals. She has also contributed in a number of book chapters. She has presented over 300 presentations in leading Conferences. She is also a peer-reviewer and editorial board member of a number of local and international journals.
Professor Alfred Gatt is an Associate Professor at the University of Malta and a Fellow of the Faculty of Podiatric Medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons (Glasgow). After 20years
managing Podiatry Services in Malta, he focused on academia and research, especially in relation to biomechanics of the diabetic foot. He has published over 120 papers in various peer-reviewed journals and presented in leading Conferences. He is founding Chair of the Association of Podiatrists of Malta and the Diabetes Foot Research Group at the University of Malta.
His work is based on 3D motion analysis, medical thermography in diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and CADCAM manufacture of custom foot orthoses. After obtaining several grants, he is currently working on medical devices aimed at diagnosis and management of diabetic foot disease.
Dr Chantel Ostler is a consultant clinical academic physiotherapist and clinical lead for research at Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Trust. She also works clinically at the Portsmouth Enablement Centre in prosthetic rehabilitation. She has over 20 years’ experience in the NHS as a specialist physiotherapist working with patients following lower limb loss and leads research activity within the centre. She is a member of the ISPO UK executive committee, and chair of the Amputation Rehabilitation Research Network. Her clinical academic role is in partnership with the University of Southampton where she teaches on the MSc in Amputation and Prosthetic use and acts as the clinical lead for the People Powered Prosthetic research group. She is passionate about involving patients and clinicians in research, and works hard to ensure the research she undertakes improves clinical care for our patients.
Exhibitors
