Alenezi, Latifah

Dr. Latifah Alenezi is an Assistant Professor at Kuwait University, where she teaches and supervises research for undergraduate. She is a Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist with experience of 13 years. She is a member of the Kuwait Physical Therapy Association (KPTA) and of the International Association for Study Pain (IASP), an associate member of the Charted Society of Physiotherapy (CSP), and an international partner in the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA). She recently was certified in the Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) from the British Psychology Society (BPS). She has a BSc. degree in physiotherapy from the Kuwait University and a MSc. in Applied Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy from Sheffield Hallam University. Latifah was recently awarded her PhD degree from The University of Sheffield. Her main research interests are in musculoskeletal physiotherapy, chronic pain management, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), geriatric and artificial intelligent in education. She has one publication: “Alenezi, L.K. and May, S. Why physiotherapists do what they do? A study of Kuwaiti Physiotherapists. Physiotherapy Research International, 2015.” and her recent research is under press: “Alenezi, L., Croot, L., Harris, J. Perception of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Physiotherapy for Chronic Low Back Pain: An Explanatory Grounded Theory”. She presented at six international conferences.