QUALIFICATION
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Dip. Occupational Therapist (graduated 1982), Örebro, Sweden
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Research Methods Uppsala University 2000, Örebro University 2004
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Rehabilitation in hand surgery, Masters program, Lund University 2005
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WORK HISTORY
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1982 – 1984 Malmo University Hospital, Sweden, Burns Unit
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1984 – 1993, Uppsala University Hospital, Hand Therapy Unit
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1993 – present, Part time work at Uppsala University Hospital Hand Surgery Unit combined with self employment, work includes running splinting and hand rehab workshops, being a consultant for children's rehabilitation clinics, and at different hand surgery clinics in Scandinavia
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OTHER RELATED EXPERIENCE
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1994- 2004 President of the Swedish Hand Therapy Association
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1998 – 2001 Historian of the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy
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2001 – 2004 Secretary General of the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy
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2004-2007 President of the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy
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2007 – 2010 Past President of the International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy
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INVITED SPEAKER / KEY NOTE SPEAKER
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Scandinavian Society for Surgery of the Hand SSSH’s meeting in Malmö 1989, European Reuma meeting Barcelona 1993, SSSH Oslo 1998, SSSH and Hungarian Hand Surgery Society Kuopio, Finland 2000, Norwegian Hand Therapy Society’s anniversary meeting 2003 SSSH Copenhagen 2004 , DAHTH German Society for Hand Therapy’s national meeting 2005, European Hand Therapy Society EFSHT’s meeting Gothenburg 2005, SSSH Svalbard 2006, Norwegian Reuma Hand therapy Society 2006 + 2007, APFSSH Asian Pacific Hand therapy meeting 2006, EFSHT Lausanne 2007, SSSH Helsinki 2008, ISSH Nashik India 2010, 2nd European Symposium on Pediatric Hand Surgery Milano 2011, EFSHT Oslo May 2011, SOF Svensk Ortopedisk Förenings meeting Karlskrona Aug 2011, Sweden, Villa Manus symposia Helsinki October 2011. Eastern European and Mediterranean Cerebral Palsy and Congenital Medicine conference, St Petersburg June 2012. European Hand Therapy Society EFSHT’s hand therapy day, Antwerp June 2012, SOF Svensk Ortopedisk Förenings meeting Kristianstad Sept 2012, Sweden, ICCPDM Lucknow, India March 2013, IFSHT/IFSSH Delhi India March 2013, SOF Uppsala Sweden Aug 2013, NOIF / NOTF meeting Trondheim Norway Nov 2013, SGHR Biel Switzerland Nov 2013, SickKids hospital conference march 2014, SOF Helsingborg Sweden Aug 2014, NOK Reykjavik Oct 2015, SSSH March 2016 Levi Finland, IFSHT Buenos Aires October 2016, Nordic Congress on CV Diseases Århus Denmark Aug 2017, Eastern European and Mediterranean Cerebral Palsy and Congenital Medicine conference Tel Aviv/Jerusalem May 2018, NOK Copenhagen Denmark Sept 2018, IFSHT/IFSSH Congress Berlin Sept 2019, IFSHT/IFSSH Congress London UK June 2022, Israel Society for Surgery of the Hand Conference Tel Aviv July 2022, Norsk förening for Håndterapi Stavanger Nov 2022.
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Presented posters and free papers at a large number of congresses.
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Teaching at universities in Sweden, Zagreb -Croatia, Århus –Denmark, Kunming – China, Helsinki – Finland, St Petersburg Russia, Jerusalem Israel
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Organized congresses and courses throughout Scandinavia and in more than 30 countries around the world.
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Margareta Persson was in the first group of hand therapists who received the Life Time Achievement Award presented at the FSHT/IFSSH congress in Berlin June 2019 |
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