Purpose:
The Education Committee is responsible for developing, promoting, and maintaining the educational offerings of the association.
Focus:
The Education Committee is committed to facilitating education in pelvic floor dysfunction across the globe, with particular focus on less well-resourced areas, teaching and training of trainees (including general gynecology trainees), nurses, physiotherapists, and allied health professionals.
The Education Committee is responsible for the following programs/initiatives:
- Scoring Observership Grants and International Fellowship Grants applications and recommending recipients.
- Overseeing the program content for the Regional Symposia and International Symposia and Fundamentals Course.
- Reviewing applications submitted for Endorsed Programs
- Developing content for, and overseeing, IUGA Academy, the association’s E-Learning platform
- IUGA Podcast
Chair:
Natarajan Rajamaheswari (India)
Education Review Subcommittee:
- Shilpa Iyer – Sub-committee Chair (USA)
- Jenifer Byrnes (USA)
- Cathy Flood (Canada)
- Rajeev Ramanah (France)
- Tanvir Singh (India)
- Dalia Saidan (UK)
- Jittima Manonai (Thailand)
- Dalia Saidan (UK)
- Ellen Yeung (Australia)
E-learning Sub-committee:
- Erin Deverdis- Sub-committee Chair (USA)
- Bahiyah Abdulla (Malaysia)
- Christine Chu (USA)
- Nirmala Amber Papalkar (India)
- Seema Dutta (UK)
- Charlotte Goutallier (Australia)
- Keeth Mayakaduwage (Australia)