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BACPR Travel Award 2017 Winner
The BACPR are delighted to announce the winner of the Australia Travel Award trip. Going to Sydney, in 2017 will be...Exercise Professional, Annie Holden! BACPR
were overwhelmed with the quality and enthusiasm of the applications received
for the Travel Award. To
ensure absolute fairness, we set up an anonymised judging process and extended
the judging panel to include ordinary Council Members and a representative of Australian
Cardiovascular Health & Rehabilitation Association (our hosts for the trip). In 2000,
our winner Annie established the first Phase IV Exercise Instructor Network [EIN] and was one of the founder members of the
BACPR Exercise Professionals Group [EPG]. Her
roles in BACPR have included being a Council Member, Treasurer, and Tutor and Assessor with the
Education & Training team. In addition, Annie’s working life has
enabled her to gain experience and expertise at national and European level
regarding raising standards of cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation and
implementing innovative services. “I was completely stunned when
Louise [BACPR Secretary] contacted me to inform me that my application for this
amazing Travel Award was successful - I am so thrilled and consider myself very
lucky to have been selected. It is an amazing opportunity and I am very,
very excited!” As one
of the first cohort of students to successfully pass the Phase IV Exercise Instructor Qualification in the initial pilot course in 1998, Annie’s
passion and on-going commitment to promoting and supporting the development of
cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation particularly in the PA and
Exercise field, has traversed a diverse area.
For over 20 years, she has dedicated a lot of her working life to the
BACPR, working continually to promote the provision of high quality CR services
and she is always ‘flying the BACPR flag’. “I believe I am extremely fortunate
to have worked for more than 30 years promoting cardiovascular health.“ Annie
writes: “So this Travel Award will not
only enable me to share my experience with the Australian Cardiac
Rehabilitation & Health Association and Australian programmes, but
also to learn from their innovative practice including their evolving use of
health technology, treatment and knowledge and their emerging models of service
provision for cardiovascular health services. I consider myself very
fortunate – both to learn from the CR professionals in Australia as well
as to share this amazing experience with the BACPR, its members and the cardiac
rehabilitation world. What an amazing
opportunity - thank you BACPR and ACRA!” Annie
will be taking the trip during Autumn/Winter 2017 - we’ll keep you posted on
her plans.
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