Professor Sue Baptiste
Full professor in the School of Rehabilitation Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Involved in teaching in the first and last terms of the Masters in Science (Occupational Therapy) Program as well as in other programs such as MSc Global Health.

Areas of focus include: theories and models of practice, particularly client-centred and occupation-centred practice, global practice and emerging role development 

John Conroy
Communications Manager, CORU, The HEalth and Social Care Professionals Council
Responsible for stakeholder relations including members of Health and Social Care Professions, The Professional Bodies, The Educational Institutions, Health Sector Employers, Health Sector Trade Unions and the Public and their Service Advocates.

The Register for Occupational Therapists is scheduled to open on 31 March 2015. 

Brendan Kennelly
Brendan is a lecturer in economics and the director of the MSc (Health Economics) programme at NUI Galway. His main research interest is health economics, particularly mental health, suicide, heart failure, osteoporosis and obesity. He also does research in economics education. He has published papers on these and other topics in journals such as Public Choice, Health Policy, Social Science and Medicine, and the Journal of Economic Education.

He is currently working on a number of projects in health including an evaluation of an Integrated Care Programme for people with dementia, an analysis of early intervention programmes for psychosis, and a cost of illness study on heart failure.

Hakan Skenhede
Hakan is one of the original exponents of the Durewell techniques that were first introduced over 30 years ago. Any modern patient handling technique/system is based on this original format, four point pressure, hands close to the side, balance and balance transfer, etc, etc, were all originally designed by him and Kurt, his original lecturer.

He has designed most of the CPD modules that are worldwide accredited, in relation to patient handling. These include Moving the Heavier Person, Single Carer Management, Car Transfers, Lifting People from the Floor, Hoisting and Slings, Moving within the Bed, etc.

He lecturers all over Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the United States.

Hakan trains all types of clinical staff, and trains at every level from care assistants to the military. Different lectures include assisting aggressive/heavy/confused patients, etc in every conceivable setting from the home to theatre.

He is responsible for designing a huge range of products for the last 20 years with Bjorn Ross. (Bjorn was responsible for inventing many types of assistive patient handling devices such as Slide Sheets, One Way Slides, the Ross ReTurn, In Situ Bed Positioning Systems, etc).