1ST WiSH Congress
When: | Friday, 11 March 2022 - Saturday, 12 March 2022 |
Where: | Off campus The Hilton, Sandton |
Start time: | 8:00 |
Enquiries: | Claries Roelofsz |
RSVP: | Register Online: https://wishcongress2022.co.za/registration/ |
Join Wits Sport and Health (WiSH) as it hosts its first in-person Congress featuring an amazing lineup of speakers and a jam-packed programme.
PROGRAMME HIGHLIGHTS:
Friday, 11 March 2022
Keynote address:
Sport and Exercise Medicine: A vision for the future - Jonathan Drezner
Equity in Sport
- A question of colour? EDI in Sport: Confronting bias and barriers to build sustainable success
- Female Athlete Health Across the Lifespan
- The Para Athlete
Saturday, 12 March 2022
Keynote address:
Injury: A professional Player's Perspective - Bongani Khumalo
Keynote address:
Sex, Drugs and Sporting Gold.
A discussion of sport’s most controversial challenge - the divide between men’s and women’s sport - Ross Tucker
Parallel 9: Critical medical issues
Iron & the athlete: deficiency & surplus (sponsored by Acino)
Hydration & hyponatraemia
Sudden death in athletes
Sunday, 13 March 2022
Physical Activity - the wonder drug
- Designing patient resources on physical activity and health - a 'how to'
- Physical Activity assessment, prescription and referral in clinical practice - What we know and how to implement?