Keynote Speakers
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Mary Law's biography
Mary Law, Ph.D., FCAOT is a Professor and Associate Dean (Health Sciences) Rehabilitation Science and associate member of the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University. She holds the John and Margaret Lillie Chair in Childhood Disability Research. Mary is co-founder of CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research, a … read moreMary Law, Ph.D., FCAOT is a Professor and Associate Dean (Health Sciences) Rehabilitation Science and associate member of the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at McMaster University. She holds the John and Margaret Lillie Chair in Childhood Disability Research. Mary is co-founder of CanChild Centre for Childhood Disability Research, a multidisciplinary research centre at McMaster University. Mary’s research centres on the development and validation of client-centred outcome measures, evaluation of occupational therapy interventions with children, the effect of environmental factors on the participation of children with disabilities in everyday occupations, and transfer of research knowledge into practice. She is the lead author of the Canadian Occupational Performance Measure (COPM), an outcome measure for occupational therapy now translated into 30 languages and is used in over 40 countries around the world. Mary is a Fellow of the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists, and has been elected o the American Occupational Therapy Foundation Academy of Research and the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences.
Mary Law - Learning by Doing: Creating Knowledge for Occupational Therapy
Sandra Galheigo´s biography
Sandra Galheigo, PhD., is an Assistant Professor in the Occupational Therapy Program, Faculty of Medicine at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Sandra was awarded her bachelor degree in occupational therapy at the School of Rehabilitation of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1977), her Master in Education at the University of Campinas, Brazil (1988), and her PhD in Social Sciences at the University of Sussex, in the … read moreSandra Galheigo, PhD., is an Assistant Professor in the Occupational Therapy Program, Faculty of Medicine at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Sandra was awarded her bachelor degree in occupational therapy at the School of Rehabilitation of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1977), her Master in Education at the University of Campinas, Brazil (1988), and her PhD in Social Sciences at the University of Sussex, in the United Kingdom (1996). She developed most of her academic career at the Faculty of Occupational Therapy at the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas from 1980 to 2005 (1980-88; 1993-95; 1996-2005) taking part in various projects and positions in teaching, research, community-based activities and university administration. The debate on the historical and epistemological development of Occupational Therapy captured her interest from her early professional days. Since then she has been engaged in contributing to the critique of the influence of reductionism and the biomedical model in occupational therapy, and, also, of how disciplinary power and control may take place within the realm of occupational therapy practice. Discussing the social and political role of occupational therapy became then more than a subject of debate and transformed itself into a central issue in her occupational therapy practice with children and youths in Brazilian poor neighbourhoods. Her research and practice interests on youth everyday life and violence have been developed from the standpoint that social meaning, social justice and political action are essential features of Occupational Therapy practice and thinking. Sandra is a founding member of the Project Metuia, a Brazilian multi-centred research group, which has been engaged in developing theoretical basis and innovative practices in social occupational therapy since 1998. Recently, she has also been working with child and youth health care and created the Project ACCALANTO, at the University of São Paulo. Some topics have crossed her research interests and publications over the years: the studies of activity and daily life, the theory of complexity and trandisciplinarity, Foucault´s concept of disciplinary power and theories of social control and, recently, Bourdieu’s concept of field and critical reflexivity. She has published several articles and chapters of books in the themes of Social Occupational Therapy, youth and violence, the concept of daily life, transdisciplinary and historical and epistemological foundations of Occupational Therapy. She has been a contributor to the book Occupational Therapy without borders, which has made possible the collaboration with several occupational therapists over the world. Sandra has had a long-term involvement with the establishment of guidelines for professional education, having taking part in the making of the Brazilian Occupational Therapy Standard Curriculum in 1982 and the Brazilian Occupational Therapy Curriculum Guidelines in 1998. She is member of the Brazilian Board of Evaluators of Occupational Therapy Programs. She worked in governmental commissions of the Ministry of Education: the Commission of Experts in Occupational Therapy (1998-2000) and the Commission of Evaluation of the Area of Occupational Therapy as chairwoman (2004-2007). She was President of the Brazilian Occupational Therapy Higher Education Network (RENETO) from 2005 to 2006. She was Vice-President of the Brazilian Association of Occupational Therapy (ATOB) from 1978 to 1981.
Sandra Galheigo – What needs to be done? Occupational therapy responsibilities and challenges regarding human rights
Manfred Max-Neef’s biography
Dr. Manfred Max-Neef has been qualified in the top hundred visionaries of the 20th Century, one of the fifty key thinkers on Development and world leaders in Sustainability, and a wise man of our era.
Creator of the Principles of Barefoot Economics and of the Human Scale Development Theory, he was awarded the Alternative Nobel Prize by the Swedish Parliament in 1983.
Dr. Max-Neef is Professor of Ecological Economics at Universidad Austral de Chile, is Director of Instituto de Economía and maintains a close cooperative relationship with various groups of researchers in Europe and Latin America.
His presentation will offer a new perspective on a range of factors influencing occupational therapy practice on. … read moreDr. Manfred Max-Neef has been qualified in the top hundred visionaries of the 20th Century, one of the fifty key thinkers on Development and world leaders in Sustainability, and a wise man of our era.
Creator of the Principles of Barefoot Economics and of the Human Scale Development Theory, he was awarded the Alternative Nobel Prize by the Swedish Parliament in 1983.
Dr. Max-Neef is Professor of Ecological Economics at Universidad Austral de Chile, is Director of Instituto de Economía and maintains a close cooperative relationship with various groups of researchers in Europe and Latin America.
His presentation will offer a new perspective on a range of factors influencing occupational therapy practice on.
- Economist and musician. Chilean-German.
- Rector of Universidad Austral de Chile (1994 – 2002).
- Honorary Member of the Club of Rome.
- Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Art.
- Member of the “Leopold Kohr Academy, Salzburg, Austria.
- Member of the New York Academy of Sciences.
- Member of the “World Future Council” (Germany).
- Taught at the University of California, Berkeley, in the 60s, Full Professor at Universidad de Chile and Visiting Professor in various universities in the United States, Europe and Latin America.
- Author of eight books and over one hundred scientific articles and papers that have been translated into several languages.
- At present, Dr. Max-Neef is Professor of Ecological Economics at Universidad Austral de Chile, is Director of Instituto de Economía and maintains a close cooperation relationship with various groups of researchers in Europe and Latin America.
AWARDS
- Creator of the Principles of Barefoot Economics and of the Human Scale Development Theory for which he was awarded the Alternative Nobel Prize by the Swedish Parliament in 1983.
- Other awards worth mentioning:
- Escudo de Oro por Méritos Académicos, Universidad de Manizales, Colombia.
- University’s Highest Honour, University of Soka, Japan.
- Gran Oficial de la Orden del Sol de Carabobo, Venezuela.
- Medal “Excelencia Universitaria en Grado de Oro”, Universidad Santiago de Cali, Colombia.
- Honorary Doctorate of the University of Jordan, Jordan.
- Honorary Doctorate of Universidad de Antioquia, Colombia.
- Honorary Doctorate of Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina.
- Honorary Doctorate, Saint Francis University, United States.
Dr. Max-Neef has been qualified as:
- One of the one hundred visionaries of the 20th Century (See “Visionaries of the 20th Century” a Resurgence Anthology, Green Books, 2006, Cornwall, UK.
- One of the fifty key thinkers on Development (See “Fifty Key Thinkers on Development”, Ed. David Simon, Routledge, 2006, London and New York).
- One of the fifty world leaders in Sustainability, (See “The top 50 Sustainability Books” University of Cambridge, Greenleaf Publishing Ltd., UK, 2009.)
- One of the wise men of our era (See “Politik des Herzens: Gespräche mit den Weisen unserer Zeit” “Politics of the Heart: Discussions with the wise men of our era”, Ed. Arun, 2003, Göttingen, Germany)
Manfred Max Neef – The need for an anti-neoliberal therapy
