A/Prof Soraya Maart

Soraya Maart is an Associate Professor in the Division of Physiotherapy in the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Cape Town. She served as Head of the Division of Physiotherapy from 2011-2017. She has a keen interest in equalizing opportunities for people with disabilities and has completed her PhD in this area. She serves on the World Health Organisation Family of Classifications Network as the South African representative and chairperson of the Functioning and Disability Reference Group. Prof Maart is the ICF task team lead on the National Health Council endorsed Advisory Technical Working Group on Clinical Coding. The group was created to develop a coding standard for the newly proposed National Health Insurance. She is a member of the Physiotherapy, Podiatry and Biokinetics Board of the Health Professions Council of South Africa and chairperson of the Education, Training and Restoration Committee of the Board.
She is the PI on the Transformative Social Movements in Non-Communicable Disease Prevention: Scalability and Sustainability of the Western Cape on Wellness (WOW) initiative.