Congress Scope
The Fourth World Congress on Brain Injury is an international professional education conference whose goal is to provide a comprehensive overview of
state-of-art information about brain injury issues for people who conduct research or provide treatment, care, and rehabilitation for persons with
brain injury and for family members of persons with brain injuries.
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Congress Format
The format for the Congress will include Pre-Congress Seminars and Workshops, Plenary Sessions, Concurrent Sessions, Posters and selected Peer Review Paper Presentations.
The Congress will feature Mobile Workshops at local medical facilities for sign-up on-site.
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Congress Objective
At the conclusion of this conference, participants should be able to:
- Identify the methods and techniques for advanced life support and acute care for brain injury
- Discuss current status of evidence-based guidelines for care, identification and treatment in brain injury
- Discuss current brain injury epidemiological findings and injury prevention initiatives around the world
- Identify the unique characteristics of pathophysiology and recovery of brain injury in children
- Identify several new technologies being used for the identification and treatment of brain injury
- Review the unique issues in assessment, treatment planning, evaluation, and prognosis for children with brain injury
- Outline the behavioral components of brain injury and possible therapeutic approaches
- Review pharmacological research and interventions for low-level cognitive states, mood disorders, sleep disturbances, and cognitive functioning
- Describe current models of rehabilitation programs serving those with brain injury
- Identify factors pertaining to long-term outcome, quality of life after brain injury
- Describe the concepts of spasticity, patient selection, treatment options
- Identify visual disturbances commonly seen following brain injury
- Describe current treatment options for post-traumatic epilepsy
- Discuss considerations for enteral nutrition after severe brain injury
- Review some of the critical legal issues involved in cases of brain injury
- Outline research activities focused on minimizing disability and improving function
- Discuss the historical perspective medicine and how it relates to current trends and issues
- Describe treatment options and indications for use in the treatment of brain injury
(Numbers in parentheses following the session title in the program correlate to the above Congress objectives.)
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Continuing Education
Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
This continuing education activity meets the criteria of the Virginia Commonwealth University and the Southern Association
of Colleges and Schools. 2.75 CEU's will be awarded and recorded with the University.
A one-time transcript recording fee of 50.000 Lire may be paid at the time of registration.
Continuing Medical Education (CMEs)
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council
for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) by the School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and the International
Brain Injury Association (IBIA). VCU is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
VCU designates this educational activity for up to 27.5 hours in category 1 credit toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award.
Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the education activity.
A one-time transcript recording fee of 50.000 Lire may be paid at the time of registration.
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