Fiona Lindsay, BSc Hons, MCSP, SRP, FRGS

Thesis title: What do health workers need, to facilitate physical rehabilitation in low-resourced settings?

Background

Fiona has worked in the NHS, Tibetan refugee and Burmese migrant settlements, Indian clinics, Georgian social orphanages, on hundreds of wilderness endurance events and expeditions. Fiona is Chair of ADAPT, the British Professional Physio Network for Global Health and directs www.developing physio.com, a small NGO creating a global health worker curriculum for CBR workers in low-resourced settings.  Fiona was a speaker at the World Physio Congress in Geneva, in the ‘working in LMIC’ symposium.  Fiona leads the ADAPT International Online Conference, with 500 physios from over 90 countries attending annually.  Fiona's background includes founding Matterhorn Medical Ltd, (medical provider for wilderness endurance events and expeditions, bought by Promethus AlphaMed) and Athletes’ Angels Ltd (providing physio cover for remote and rural events).  Fiona grew up in Germany, Hong Kong, Canada and the UK and has since lived and worked globally.  She loves the wilderness and her background includes fund-raising for charities via ultra-running expeditions such as the Everest Marathon, Polar expeditions in the Arctic and bike expeditions through Pakistan and Cambodia.

Responsibilities & affiliations

Director, Developing Physio www.developingphysio.com

Chair, ADAPT The British CSP Professional Network for Physios in Global Health www.adaptcsp.co.uk

Conference details

Fiona has grown the ADAPT International Conference from 20 participants to 500 physios from over 65 countries since 2020.  This has included:

2020: Rehabilitation in LMICs through Pandemics

2021: Physiotherapy Evidence Based Research in LMICs

2022: Physiotherapy Resources for LMICs

2023: Teaching and Learning approaches for Physios in LMICs

2024: Remote and Rural Physiotherapy in LMICs

Invited speaker

Fiona was also a speaker at the World Physio Congress, Geneva, 2019 on: Physiotherapy in LMICs.