Country
South Africa
Bio
Ilona is a UK trained Physiotherapist, based currently in Pretoria, South Africa. For the last 15 years, she has been living and working internationally in countries including Uganda, Indonesia, Laos, Jordan and the US, training and supporting physiotherapists in diverse settings. She has been working in the field of Trauma and Torture rehabilitation since 2009. Currently, she works as a Clinical Advisor for Physiotherapy for The Center for Victims of Torture (CVT) managing and guiding the clinical quality of the physiotherapy services of projects in the MENA region, including Jordan and Iraq.
Most recently she presented CVT’s interdisciplinary work at the ‘Pathways to Recovery for Torture Victims in Flight’ in Athens 2019, where she was both panelist and moderator of a number of sessions.