Posts tagged Conference
Limbcare Technician of the Year closing date extended
Jan 26th
The closing date for nominations for the Limbcare Technician of the Year Award has been extended until 29th of February. This is down to the fact that the judges will not be able to meet until late March to consider the nominations so we felt it would give us an opportunity to give nominators another month to send in their nominations.
Do you know a Technician who goes that extra mile? Someone who makes sure their patients device is suitable for their activities or has a great understanding of what their patient needs. Maybe it’s a Technician who has overcome barriers to allow them to carry out their duties, or Technicians who consistently produce excellent and innovative devices? Well now is your chance to give them something back by nominating them for the Limbcare Technician of the Year Award.
The prize is £400 and the Technician can be nominated by anyone, be it a Manager, a Clinician, a fellow Technician or a Patient or User. Limbcare will shortlist 3 Technicians before deciding the winner and the 2 runners-up will also receive a cash prize.
To nominate your Technician of the Year simply tell us in under 400 words why they should win this award. Send your entry together with a completed Nomination Detail Form to the BAPO Secretariat at the address below. Nomination forms can also be downloaded from the BAPO website www.bapo.com or click here
Please send your nomination to:
Limbcare Technician of the Year Award 2012
British Association of Prosthetists & Orthotists (BAPO)
Sir James Clark Building, Abbey Mill Business Centre, Paisley,
Renfrewshire, PA1 1TJ
Tel: 0141 561 7217 Fax: 0141 561 7218
Email: enquiries@bapo.com Web: www.bapo.com
Arab Health 2012
Jan 20th
Arab Health 2012, the largest healthcare exhibition & congress in the Middle East.
Now in its 37th year, there is simply no other business platform for the global healthcare market to meet, learn, network and do business.
- Over 71,940 healthcare professionals over four days
- Over 3,000 exhibiting companies from around the world
- 32 international pavilions and exhibitors from over 60 countries
. . . and a regional industry worth $80 billion per year …
can you really afford to miss it?
Arab Health 2012 will take place from January 23-26 at Dubai World Trade Centre, UAE.
For more info click here for the Arab Heath 2012 web site
If you happen to be attending remember to pop along and see the guys from Algeos Ltd they will be on stand 7B70
BAPO 2012 P&O Clinical Development Day
Dec 7th
This will take place on Saturday 10th March 2012
The location is UCL Institute of Child Health in London
Registration will be open soon watch out for invite and call for papers. For more info check out BAPO web site
Limbcare technician of the year award 2012
Nov 9th
Nomination form for the above award can now be downloaded from the BAPO web site
Orthopadie Reha 2012 – Call for Papers
Jul 6th
Every two years, the ORTHOPÄDIE + REHA-TECHNIK is held in Leipzig as a globally leading event in the trade. In 2012 once again the world congress and the world’s largest trade show for the sector are being held in parallel. In Leipzig you will meet fellow professionals with whom you can change ideas and experiences. The four-day world congress (Tuesday to Friday) starts on 15 May 2012, one day before the international trade show.
Raise your profile at the world congress
The program committee invites free paper submissions for the world congress.
Submission of abstracts
To be considered for presentation at the congress, abstracts must be submitted online for review by September 30, 2011.
Abstracts must be submitted electronically through the congress website:www.confairmed.de/abstractsubmission
Topics
Topics suitable for presentation at the congress include: Prosthetics, Orthotics, Foot and Shoe, Rehabilitation, Rehab Technologies (Seating & Wheelchairs) and Open Topics (Developing Countries, Appropriate Technologies, Materials Research and Measurement Techniques).
Peer review procedure and acceptance of free papers
At the close of free paper submission (September 30, 2011) abstracts will be anonymized and distributed to assigned reviewers for assessment and comment. On the basis of the reviews, the program committee will accept or reject the submissions. Authors will be notified of the outcome of the review process by the end of November 2011.
Congress languages
Congress languages are German and English. Simultaneous translations into both languages will be offered.
Presentation format
Free papers at the congress will be presented in podium/oral or poster format.
Posters will be displayed in the poster exhibition in front of the lecture halls. Poster presentations and viewings will be held daily during lunch break.
Keynote lectures – Specialist knowledge from international experts
Internationally renowned experts will talk in keynote lectures on their specialist fields. No other events will be held in parallel to these 30 minute lectures. You will find more information here.
Symposia – Broad spectrum of topics, professional discussions
Further core topics will be explored in chaired discussions in the symposia. A total of roughly 35 lecture blocks will be conducted in parallel in three halls over the four days of the congress. The structure of the 2012 congress will be more oriented towards communication and discussion, and special features such as “Meet the speaker” and interdisciplinary case studies will be introduced. The planned symposia can be found here.
Congress structure
Every day, 3 time frames will be offered in parallel in each of the 3 halls. No other lecture series will be held parallel to the keynote lectures. The congress opens from 09:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. daily.
International Youth Academy
Students in the field of prosthetics, orthotics, orthopaedic shoe technology and physiotherapy will be given the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas and experiences on an interdisciplinary basis in their own dedicated promotional area. The range of things on offer at the “Youth.Academy” also include an internships exchange, meetings with the directors of human resources and heads of research departments from individual exhibiting companies, as well as access to some of the professional development sessions. All those interested will find more information on Facebook.
More info: http://www.ot-leipzig.de
BAPO Conference report
Mar 10th
Last weekend saw a very enjoyable conference take place with one of the best Technical programme at a BAPO conference and thanks must go to Phil Buttery the Technician on the conference committee.
We also saw the first orthotictechnicians.com Show and Tell and congratulations go to Christopher Dodsley from Nottingham University NHS Trust who was this years winner with his method of applying transfers to polyethelyne materials. Well done Christopher. We also saw the return of the Algeos social event and I hope you all enjoyed the event.
BAPO Conference – Technicians Program
Mar 3rd
BAPO Technicians program as at 3/3/2011:
Friday 4th March
9.15am – 3.45pm Technician Awareness Day
4.00pm – 4.45pm EC question time
4.45pm – 6.15pm Algeos Show and Tell /Technician Social event
6.15pm – 9.00pm Exibition and dinner buffet
Saturday 5th March
9.00am – 9.30am Renia Material Identification & Bonding Technology olz – Heinz Buchholz
9.30am – 10.00am Nora EVA Manufacturing Techniques – Peter Muller
10.00am – 10.55am Bars and joints in Orthotic manufacture, System choice and troubleshooting problems – Dave Buchanan
11.45am – 12.45am Kilimanjaro Talk – Ray Edwards MBE
1.45pm – 3.15pm Lower Limb cast rectification – Simon Dickinson
4.00pm – 5-00pm TFC Application programme – Kevin Moore
5.00pm – 6.00pm BAPO AGM 2011
Algeos ‘Show and Tell’
Feb 21st
There is still time to enter the Show and Tell at the BAPO conferenece sponsored by www.orthotictechnicians.com please see the details below.
This is a new event that will be held at the BAPO Conference 2011 to be held at the Harrogate International Centre. The event is sponsored by orthotictechnicians.com to help relaunch this important resource for Orthotic, Prosthetic and Podiatry Technicians.
Have you ever wanted to show your fellow Technicians a new manufacturing process or method of manufacturing a device, well now is your chance at this new Show and Tell. There will be a prize of £150 for the best presentation as decided by the judges.
There will also be the chance to see some of the new products that Algeos will be showing at the Conference exhibition.
Presentations should be no longer than 7mins and can be given as a powerpoint presentation, a poster, a manufactured product or just simply a talk.
At the end of the Show and Tell we will see the return of the Algeos Technician Social event with the chance of catching up with your colleagues over a small refreshment from our sponsors Algeos.
Ray Edwards video
Feb 13th
Please have a look at this amazing video about Ray’s trip to climb Kilimanjaro. Ray will be speaking on the Saturday during the Technical Programme at Harrogate in three weeks time at the BAPO conference.
Happy New Year
Jan 8th
Happy New Year to all our viewers.
As it is only 8 weeks till the BAPO Conference in Harrogate we will be starting to highlight some of the speakers and events at Conference aimed at Technicians.
This year sees the largest Technical programme at a BAPO Conference so be sure not to miss out.