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CMAster Project Deliverable 8.3:

Launch event

1 Version History

Version Date Change Author(s)

1.0 10th October 2014 First and final Richard Baker

2 Content

1 Version History ................................................................................................................................ 1

2 Content ........................................................................................................................................... 1

3 Purpose and Background ................................................................................................................ 1

4 Setting ............................................................................................................................................. 2

5 Programme ..................................................................................................................................... 3

6 Photographs of Launch event ......................................................................................................... 5

7 Appendix 1- Launch Presentation slides ......................................................................................... 6

3 Purpose and Background

The original application stated:

The last month of the project (September 2014) will coincide with the third Joint Meeting of ESMAC and the (North American) Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis Society1 in Rome. These are held every four years and are, effectively the world meeting for the CMA community. A launch event will be run at this meeting to publicise the course and raise international awareness.

1 At the time of the original CMAster application there were plans for the 2014 ESMAC conference in Rome

to be the third of a series of joint conferences with the (North America) Gait and Clinical Movement Analysis Society (GCMAS) following Amsterdam in 2006 and Miami in 2010. Since the applications those plans did not materialise and GCMAS chose not to continue this arrangement.

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4 Setting

The European Society for Movement Analysis in Adults and Children is the principal academic society for clinical gait analysis within Europe. In 2014 the annual conference was held jointly with the Societa Itialiana di Analisi del Movimento in Clinica (SIAMOC) the largest and most active regional society within Europe and marketed as the 1st Clinical Movement Analysis World Conference. The Conference is preceded by three days of educational activity including the Annual ESMAC Gait Course and 8 symposia. Members had a prominent role in both. Coinciding so closely to the completion of the CMAster Project this was the obvious venue to hold a formal launch event.

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The conference was held at the Angelicum Conference Centre at the Pontifical University of St

Thomas Aquinas in the centre of Rome.

Pictures taken at the 1st

Clinical Movement Analysis World Conference (courtesy of http://www.esmac-siamoc2014.com)

5 Programme

The launch event was held on the morning of Saturday 4th October had two components. The first

was the CMAster breakfast, an informal event at which anyone had an opportunity to come and

have breakfast with the CMAster team and chat about the programme.

The main event was the CMAster Launch and Keynote lecture within the main auditorium. Professor

Baker first gave an outline of the CMAster Programme (see Appendix one for slides). He then

introduced Julie Reay who is one of the students who has just completed her first year studying on

the work-based distance-learning programme being delivered from the University of Salford. She

talked about her experiences as a student on the programme.

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Invite to launch event from placed in all conference bags

Then Professor Baker then introduced Dr Adam Shortland to deliver the CMAster lecture. Adam is

the Consultant Clinical Scientist who leads the One Small Step Gait Laboratory at Guy’s Hospital in

London. He also holds an Honorary Senior Lectureship at King’s College, London and has an

international reputation for both clinical and research work particularly in studying how changes in

muscle phyiology and anatomy affect walking in children with cerebral palsy. He also serves as

External Examiner for the CMAster programme at the University of Salford.

CMAster Launch event as outlined in the Conference Programme

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6 Photographs of Launch event

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7 Appendix 1- Launch Presentation slides

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