Oncology
Mission:
Developing an international competent physiotherapy community that provides oncology patients with the best practiced evidenced based physiotherapy services through out their cancer care continuum.
Objectives for the next 2 years:
- To promote and facilitate the evidence based best-practice physiotherapy for people living with and beyond cancer internationally.
(Through Developing Guidelines, Exchange information and programs, collaboration between different countries) - To enhance training on oncology physiotherapy to improve competences and fill up the gaps in knowledge internationally (both basics and advance trainings, symposia, meetings, workshops)
- To encourage collaboration with cancer organizations, associations and institutes to build up networking and increase the reach through them.
- To build a network of international members( increase engagement- networking and information exchange)
- To increase the medical community awareness about the role of physiotherapy in Oncology services especially in less privileged countries.
- To increase the reach of the specialized Oncology services utilizing tele-medicine between countries.
Oncology Special Interest Group Leadership:
Special Interest Group Lead
Nouf Al Dhwayan (Saudi Arabia, Asia)
Nouf is an outpatient supervisor of the Physical Rehabilitation Department, at King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Saudi Arabia. She has a Master’s degree in healthcare management from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 2010. She is an official Instructor of the Academy of Lymphatic studies, Oncology lead of the International Physiotherapists in HIV/AIDS, Oncology, & Hospice; Head of Oncology Subgroup in the Saudi Physiotherapy Association; Co-founder of Saudi Arabia Lymphedema Framework & Co-Founder of Zahra Breast Cancer Association.
Contact Information
Email Nouf Al Dhwayan
Special Interest Group Education Facilitator
Marize Ibrahim (Canada, North America)
Marize graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Kinesiology and Physical Education and attained a Master of Science in Physical Therapy from McGill University. Marize is a member of both the Professional Order of Physiotherapy of Quebec (OPPQ), the Canadian Physiotherapy Association (CPA, and an Oncology division member of the CPA. In 2020, the Physiotherapy Specialty Certification Board of Canada granted her the designation of Clinical Specialist Oncology. Marize is a licensed Lymphedema Therapist and a certified Lymphedema therapist with the Lymphology Association of North America. She is working at the McGill University Hospital Center Lymphedema Clinic, a LE&RN Network of Excellence.
To date, she has published numerous peer-reviewed scientific journal articles and has been invited as a guest speaking at several national and international conferences (including India). She has been an invited lecturer at Queen’s University and is currently a guest lecturer at the McGill University School of Physical & Occupational Therapy since 2012. Additionally, she has taught several continuing education courses offered through the OPPQ and CPA.
Contact Information
Email Marize Ibrahim
Special Interest Group Research Facilitator
Carolina Fernandez Lao (Spain, Europe)
Dr. Carolina Fernández-Lao is a Lecturer at Physiotherapy Department of the University of Granada (Spain) and researcher at Institute for Biomedical Research (Ibs.GRANADA), she holds a PhD focused on physiotherapy procedures for the recovery of cancer survivors with pain and dysfunction. She leads a granted project on the management of persistent pain in oncology population and her research interest is in the recovery of oncology population through multimodal programs based on pain education, therapeutic exercise, and manual therapy. Carolina works as part of a large multi-disciplinary team developing programs od rehabilitation in the continuum of the oncology process. She is involved in education and lecturing at both undergraduate and postgraduate level as well as her research work.
Contact Information
Email Carolina Fernandez Lao
