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The Future is Now

Unleashing potential and transforming lives through inclusive rehabilitation

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Curaçao

Start date: 

 17 Nov 2025

End date: 

21 Nov 2025

Location: 

Renaissance Wind Creek Hotel - Curaçao

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The Future is Now

Unleashing potential and transforming lives through inclusive rehabilitation

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Start date: 17 November 2025

End date: 20 November 2025

Location:  Renaissance Wind Creek Hotel - Curaçao

Start date: 

 17 Nov 2025

End date: 

20 Nov 2025

Meet the World of Rehabilitation in one place

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CURAÇAO.2025

17 - 20 November

International Medical Conference

"The Future is Now"

Conference

3-days

Join us in Curaçao for a dynamic 3-day medical conference, featuring expert speakers, workshops, panels, networking opportunities, and a nice social program to advance healthcare knowledge and innovation.
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The future of Healthcare

Groundbreaking innovations, personalized treatments, and cutting-edge technologies are revolutionizing healthcare. Stay ahead with insights on emerging trends that will transform patient care and outcomes.
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Speakers

Leading experts from around the globe will share their visionary insights and groundbreaking knowledge, shaping the next generation of healthcare  and rehabilitation advancements.
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Giving Patients a Voice

At the heart of effective healthcare lies the patient’s story. This conference highlights the vital role of patient perspectives in shaping medical research, treatment strategies, and healthcare policies. By amplifying their voices, we aim to foster collaboration between patients, families and professionals, ensuring a more compassionate, inclusive, and impactful approach to medicine.

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Unleashing potential and transforming lives through inclusive rehabilitation

People with a variety of health conditions experience disability.

Enabling them to participate in activities they value and enjoy has become the main goal of current rehabilitative practice.

This conference will host international experts from various fields and an overview of international and local expertise where diverse health conditions meet innovative solutions. 

Join us at the forefront, discover, engage and become part of the future of inclusive rehabilitation.

IMCC Goals

Offer an educational platform to exchange best practices and expertise and inspiration from all over the world.

Encourage to deepen interactions and partnerships among the participants, universities, medical centers, rehabilitation facilities, research institutions, students and patients and their families.

Increase awareness and visibility of Curaçao’s potential in the medical sector. Preparing Healthcare Professionals for the Future.

Partners & Sponsors

Who make this conference possible

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Speakers

We are truly honored to welcome an exceptional lineup of local and international experts who have accepted our invitation to speak at this year’s conference. Their insights, experiences, and groundbreaking work will make this event an unforgettable opportunity for learning and collaboration.

 

None of this would be possible without the generous support of individuals and companies who share our vision of a more inclusive future. Their sponsorship has made it possible for us to bring together some of the brightest minds in the field.

Curious to know who will be taking the stage? Don't miss out! Register now and be part of the conversation shaping the future.

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Tarig Ahmed, Dr.

(Curacao) Dr., Head of the department of clinical skills, Avalon University School of Medicine

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Sateesh Arja, Prof. Dr.

(Curacao) Professor of Clinical Skills and Medical Education, Chair of the Medical Education Unit, Dean of the School of Medicine, Avalon University School of Medicine

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Steffen Berweck, Prof. Dr.

(Germany), Prof. Head Physician at the Specialist Centre for Paediatric Neurology, Neuro-Rehabilitation and Epileptology at the Schön Klinik Vogtareuth

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(Germany) Centre for Paediatric and Paediatric -Neuro-Orthopaedics, Munich, Specialist in minimalinvasive surgery

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Sonia Chacko, Dr.

(Curaçao) Dr. Sonia Chacko, DDS, MSc Orthodontics / International certificant and qualified dentist/ American Board of Dental Sleep Medicine and European Academy of Dental Sleep Medicine

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Chris Connor, Prof. Dr.

(USA) Boston- Harvard Massachusetts, Anesthesiologist. AI in Medicine

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Joachim Drevs, Prof. Dr.

(Germany) Prof. integrative Oncology, Internal Medicine with a focus on haematology and oncology

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Stefanie von Fallois

(USA) Psychologist, Expert in Dolphin Assisted Therapy, 23 Years of Experience

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Jan Willem Gorter, Prof. Dr.

(Netherlands), Prof., TransitionDoctor, Pediatric Physiatrist. Professor and Head of Pediatric Rehabilitation UMCU. Editor-in-Chief of Child: Care, Health & Development. CanChild Scientist. UMC Utrecht

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Hannes Haberl, Prof. Dr.

(Germany), Paediatric Neurosurgeon, Prof. Head Physician - Specialist Centre for Neurosurgery, Epilepsy Surgery, Spinal Surgery and Scoliosis

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Christiana Hennemann

rehaKind e.V., Cerebral Palsy Network, Rehab Trade Fair

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Olaf Hesse

(Germany) PTSD patient, German Armed Forces

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Lothar Jahrling

(Germany) Master orthopaedic shoemaker, Inventor of the sensomotoric insole according to Jahrling, Owner of the footpower store in Giessen

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Ryan Jackson, Prof. Dr.

(Curacao) Dean of the School of Medicine

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Marek Jozwiak, Prof. Dr.

(Poland) Professor Orthopaedic Surgery & Division Head, Pediatrics Orthopaedics, hip surveillance in children with disability

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Sirving Keli, Prof. Dr.

(Curacao) Professor of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, EBM, Associate Dean of Research at Avalon University Shool of Medicine, Inspectorate of Public Health

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Judah Koller, Dr.

(Israel) Assistant Professor of clinical/school psychology and special education at Hebrew University and director of the Azrieli National Centre for Autism and Neurodevelopment Research

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Kirsten Kuhnert

(Germany) Co-founder of the CDTC, CDTC Program Supervisor, Founder of Dolphin Aid and President of Dolphin Aid America

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Marco Kürschner

(Germany) Physical Therapist, Member of the Founding Team of CDTC,
CDTC´s Former Head Therapist

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⁠Elegast Monbaliu, Prof. Dr.

(Begium), Prof., Universität von Leuven, Campus Brügge
Clinical Head CoMoveIT

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Kristina Müller, PD Dr.

(Germany), Head of Neuropaediatrics, Specialist Paediatrics + Adolescent Medicine, Specialist in Neuropaediatrics and Rehabilitation

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Robert Müller

(Germany) PTBS patient, German Armed Forces

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Sarah Grace Nadler, Prof., LMHC

(USA) Animal-Assisted Psychotherapist and Prof. of Animal Studies at Eckerd College

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Unni Narayanan, Prof. Dr.

(Canada) Prof.  paediatric orthopaedic surgeon and Senior Associate Scientist Sick Kids Hospital Toroto, PROMS

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Jasmin Mayer-Rosa, Dr.

(Germany) Child and adolescent psychiatrist and psychotherapist in private practice with a focus on the treatment of autism spectrum disorders, Munich

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Ignacio Martínez Caballero, Prof. Dr.

(Spain), Specialist in Pediatric Orthopedics and Neuroorthopedics, robotergestützes Bewegungstraining

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Olaf Kraus de Camargo, Prof. Dr.

(Canada), Associate Professor Department of Pediatrics at McMaster University and the Co-director CanChild Centre Childhood Disability Research

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Alton Paas

(Curacao), Founder and CEO of Fundashon Alton Paas (non-profit organization on Curacao that aims awareness and work for better quality of life for people with spinal cord injury and other types of paralysis)

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Karthik Ramani, Prof. Dr.

(USA) Medical Director of Interventional Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

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Peter L. Rosenbaum, Prof. Dr.

(Canada), Full Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at McMaster University and founder, CanChild Centre for Childhood-onset Disability Research

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Eckhard Schoenau, Prof. Dr.

(Germany), Prof. University of Cologne, UOC, Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Metabolic Diseases and Osteology

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Peter Schwick, Dr.

(Germany) Paediatrician and Neonatologist und funktion, president Doctors of the World Germany

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Barbara Schweitzer

(Germany) Physical Therapist, Co-Founder of Dolphin Aid and Dolphin Aid America, 25 Years of Experience in DAT

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Danna Soria, Prof. Dr.

(Curacao) Vice Chancellor, Chair and Professor St. Martinus University Curaçao

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Taiza Stumpp, Prof. Dr.

(Brazil), Associate Professor at the Paulista School of Medicine - UNIFESP, Leader of the Biopsychosocial Epigenetics and its Inheritance Research Group, Coordinator of the Unifesp Mental Health Observatory (OSMU) and Vice-president of the Institute of Advanced and Convergent Studies - UNIFESP

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Vanessa Uclés, Dr.

(Costa Rica) Physiatrist, Founder of the Program of Cancer Rehabilitation and Palliative Care

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Lanny Wilson, Dr.

(Curacao) Dr. Avalon’s Dean of Clinical Sciences, Obstetrics and Gynecology

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Peter Zimmermann, Prof. Dr.

(Germany) German Armed Forces, Colonel Prof Dr Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist

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