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Welcome to SANRA
The aim of the Southern African Neurological Rehabilitation Association hereafter referred to as SANRA is as follows:
- To promote and develop a special interest in neurological rehabilitation among different professionals
- To help in the dissemination of knowledge and skills to those interested in neurological rehabilitation
- To support, promote and develop research across disciplines
- To foster a multidisciplinary approach to neurological rehabilitation
- To foster and encourage the development of training facilities, programmes and ongoing education for neurological rehabilitation
- To foster international links in neurological rehabilitation
SANRA will be hosting a conference next year 26-28 August 2009 at the Sunnyside Park Hotel in Johannesburg.
The international keynote speakers will be:
- Dr Steven Small – Professor of Neurology and Psychology, University of Chicago.
He is involved in the Comprehensive Aphasia Centre of Chicago, The Human Neurosciences Laboratory and the Brain Network Recovery Group.
He is on the editorial board of the international journal ‘Brain and Language’
- Dr Derick Wade – Honorary part-time Chair of Rehabilitation at King’s College, London.
He has trained in several specialties including neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry and neurophysiology.
He has edited the international journal ‘Clinical Rehabilitation’ since 1994
- Michele Gerber – An expert in neurological rehabilitation, with more than 25 years’ clinical experience with persons who have suffered stroke, head injury, ataxia, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease or other lesions of the central nervous system.
She is qualified as a Senior Instructor with the International Bobath Instructors Training Association and is a member of the Swiss Federation of Physiotherapists, which is a member-organization of the World Confederation for Physical Therapy.
She has taught therapists (physical, occupational and speech), nurses, medical doctors and other health-care workers in Europe, Canada and USA, South Africa, Brazil and Australia.
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