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• Professor Elizabeth Dean is on faculty in the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and Adjunct Professor with the University of Iceland in Reyjavik. Her academic and clinical career and experiences have spann...More

  Professor Elizabeth Dean is on faculty in the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and Adjunct Professor with the University of Iceland in Reyjavik. Her academic and clinical career and experiences have spanned the “corners of the globe” with invitations to over 30 countries. She has over 100 publications. Her scholarship has increasingly focused on integrating and translating knowledge of healthy lifestyles in promoting health and wellness worldwide, and exploiting evidence-based non invasive physical therapy interventions (health education and exercise) to prevent and, in some cases, reverse, as well as manage these conditions. Along with international teams, Dr. Dean has convened two Physical Therapy Summits on Global Health. The Coordination Implementation Model has provided a systematic means of changing health services as multiple levels of shareholders (clinicians, educators, researchers, professional bodies, consultants to government and policy makers, and the public). She is co-editor (with Donna Frownfelter) and co-author of ‘Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Physical Therapy: Evidence to Practice (5th edition), Elsevier:PA, 2012). She served as Special Issue editor for ‘Physical Therapy in the 21st Century: a New Evidence-informed Practice Paradigm and Implications’ (Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 2009). Less

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