Physiotherapy Practice Forum 2016 - Move More, Sit Less: Dr. Jack Taunton, Alison Hoens

Описание: Dr. Jack Taunton and Alison Hoens will be co-presenting a session on the value of physical activity in the prevention and management of chronic disease. Dr. Taunton will highlight the physiological consequences of inactivity focusing on chronic diseases. Alison will then provide details about the PT
Knowledge Broker led “Physical Activity Support Kit Initiative: Move More. Sit Less”.

Alison Hoens, BScPT (‘86), MSc (‘91), DipSportsPT
PABC member since 1986 Alison Hoens is the Physical Therapy Knowledge Broker within a partnership between PABC, UBC
Department of Physical Therapy and the research institutes of Providence Health Care and Vancouver Coastal Health. She also is the Research, Education and Practice Coordinator for Physiotherapy at Providence Health Care. Alison has undertaken clinical, teaching and research activities in physical therapy and interdisciplinary spheres provincially, nationally and internationally.

Dr. Jack Taunton, MSc, MD, FACSM, Dip Sport Medicine (CASEM), MCFP (SEM)
Dr. Jack Taunton is a Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Medicine, Division of Sports Medicine at UBC. He has a clinical practice in sports medicine at the Allan McGavin Sports Medicine Centre as well as being one of the Clinic’s co-founders. He also co-founded Sportmed BC while president of the Sports
Medicine Council of Canada. He is very involved in clinical and exercise medicine research with a keen interest in overuse injuries, injury prevention, concussions in sport, and cardiac disease in athletes. He was inducted into the BC Athletics and the Burnaby Sports Halls of Fame, and in 2014 into the SFU and the BC Sports Halls of Fame. He is the recipient of a Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Academy of Sport and Exercise Medicine.