Occupational Health Physiotherapy Group Seminar/Workshop
Workshop: Thursday 30 August 2012
Seminar: 31 August and 1 September 2012
Venue: Amora Hotel, Wellington
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Anybody with an interest in Occupational Health is welcome to attend. Come along and meet like-minded people from a range of professions. For full details & registration form, click here
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Thursday 30 September - Pre Seminar Workshop
Deborah Lechner (USA) – Quantitative Job Demand Analysis (QJDA)
Deborah Lechner is founder and President of ErgoScience Inc located in USA. She has developed and validated a state of the art FCE, the Physical Work Performance Evaluation (PWPE), as part of her research with the Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). She has also developed a quantitative job demands analysis process that was analysed and tested in conjunction with the US Department of Labor in 2002. She combines her research background with 25+ years of clinical experience. She Deborah has published her work and literature reviews in national and international journals and has conducted numerous workshops on functional capacity evaluations, job demands analysis and industrial rehabilitation practices. Deborah provides services in 11 countries, there are over 850 clinics providing the PWPE internationally.
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Seminar Friday 31 August to Saturday 1 September
Key note speaker:
• Deborah Lechner (USA) – Pre Employment Functional Assessments
Other speakers include:
• Dr William Levack – University of Otago
• Dr Kevin Morris - ACC
• Alison Richmond – Provention, Physiotherapist
• Mick Smith – Rehabilitation Adviser, ACC
• Joanne Williams – Occupational Physiotherapist
• Joanne Fadyl – AUT
• Dr Eileen Britt – Clinical Psychologist
• Kurt Thomas – Occupational Physiotherapist
• Robin Abbey – Solid Energy

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