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Submit your Research: Eleventh World Congress on Brain Injury

The International Brain Injury Association’s Eleventh World Congress on Brain Injury will be held March 2-5, 2016, in the Hague, the Netherlands, at the World Forum Conference Center. The deadline for submission is September 15, 2015.

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Register Now for the International Paediatric Conference on Acquired Brain Injury

The International Paediatric Conference on Acquired Brain Injury will take place at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Liverpool in September 2015. The meeting will be the largest meeting ever held on the subject of pediatric brain injuiry. Visit the website to view the impressive faculty list and to download the conference program.

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The International NeuroTrauma Letter is produced quarterly by the International Brain Injury Association. Please address editorial questions to Peter Patrick, PhD

Editor in Chief Peter D. Patrick, PhD USA

Associate Editor
Nathan D. Zasler, MD USA
Olivia Gosseries
Beth Wicks

Editorial Board
David B. Arciniegas, MD USA
Ian Baguley, PhD Australia
Ross Bullock, MD, PhD USA
Enrico Castelli, MD Italy
Marilyn F. Kraus, MD USA
Lisa Cantore Letzkus, RN USA
Sheila MacDonald, MClSc, SLP(C) Canada Donald G. Stein, PhD USA
Yaron Sacher, MD Israel

Editor’s note: The views and opinions expressed in the articles contained in the International NeuroTrauma Letter are those of the authors and contributors alone and do not necessarily reflect the views, policy or position of the International Brain Injury Association or all members of the INTL Editorial Board. The INTL is provided solely as an informational resource and the inclusion of any particular article does not establish or imply IBIA’s endorsement of its contents.

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INTL, Issue 37

Mon, 13 Apr 2015 09:09:00 -0500

A Quarterly E-Publication of the International Brain Injury Association

In This Issue

IBIA and IPBIS to host international Conference on Brain Injuries in Children and Young People
Carol Hawley, Ronald Savage, Beth Wicks

Clinical Applications of the Halifax Consciousness Scanner: Tracking Recovery on a Severely Brain Injured Patiently
Carolyn Fleck-Prediger, Sujoy G. Hajra, Bruce D. Dick, D. Shaun Gray, Careesa C. Liu, Lauren Petley, Ryan C.N. D’Arcy

IBIA World Congress Abstract Submission Site is Now Open

Publications: Advances in Brain Injury

Effort, Symptom Validity Testing, Performance Validity Testing and Traumatic Brain Injury
Erin D. Bigler

Revisiting the Neurofunctional Approach: Conceptualizing the Core Components for the Rehabilitation of Everyday Living Skills
Jo Clark-Wilson, Gordon Muir Giles, Doreen M. Baxter

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INTL, Issue 36

Mon, 13 Apr 2015 09:02:00 -0500

A Quarterly E-Publication of the International Brain Injury Association

In This Issue

How aggressive behaviour can be managed by attending to the underlying communication problems, in right hemispheric brain injury

Impact of Trauma Disease on long-term outcome in a single center of Argentina

Do All Patients With Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Require Admission?

New Publications: Advances in Brain Injury

Patterns and Predictors of follow-up in patients with mid traumatic brain injury

Investigations of blast-induced traumatic brain injury

Children, Poverty, and Acquired Brain Injury: In Search of Best Neurorehabilitation and Educational Practices

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Thu, 06 Nov 2014 10:07:00 -0600

The First International Conference on
Paediatric Acquired Brain Injury

Crowne Plaza Hotel
Liverpool, United Kingdom
16-18 September, 2015

About the Conference

The International Paediatric Brain Injury Society (IPBIS) and the International Brain Injury Association (IBIA) are pleased to announce that they will jointly hold the First International Conference on Paediatric Acquired Brain Injury on 16-18 September, 2015 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Liverpool, England.

This will be the first global event that brings together all those involved in the identification, treatment and prevention of brain injury of children, adolescents, and young adults. The theme of the conference is Supporting Young People and Their Families to Maximise Good Outcomes and Quality of Life.

The scientific aim of the conference will be to explore current and innovative treatments, rehabilitation programmes, support mechanisms, and ways to improve the lives and potential of these young people and their families. The conference programme will be inclusive of all issues relating to every aspect of brain injury, both traumatic (i.e., external physical force injuries, penetrating injuries) and atraumatic (i.e., infectious diseases, tumours, stroke, neurotoxic poisonings).

Educational Objectives

The Scientific Planning Committee is developing a broad educational programme that will address a wide range of topics, including:

The epidemiology of acquired brain injuries in children and adolescents from a world health care perspective.
Evidenced-based research regarding the nature and efficacy of medical, clinical and educational treatment of acquired brain injuries in children and adolescents.
The varied causes of ABI in childhood, including medical conditions and non-accidental traumatic injuries.
Development of advocacy protocols to support families affected by paediatric ABI, towards affecting change at National and International levels.
Models of innovative systems, services and supports for children/adolescents with ABI and their families.
How to better recognise, manage and treat mTBI/Concussions in children/adolescents.

Call for Abstracts

The organisers encourage the submission of original paediatric brain injury research for presentation at the conference. Abstracts will be scored by the Scientific Programme Committee and accepted work will be presented in either short oral presentions or as a poster.

Submission categories are:

Prevention
Epidemiology
Mild brain injury
Sports concussion
Non-traumatic brain injury
Non-accidental injury
Rehabilitation: medical
Rehabilitation: educational
Rehabilitation: social and behavioural
Rehabilitation: cognitive
Clinical outcome measurements
Functional outcome measurements
Family supports/interventions
Life-long issues
Transitions
Legal: litigation issues
Legal: criminal justice

Submission due date is 9 March, 2015.

To submit an abstract, click here.

Who Should Attend?

The conference seeks to bring together with all those an interest in the development of innovative treatments for acquired brain injuries in children, adolescents and young adults, supported by evidenced-based research. It is anticipated that attendees will be comprised of:

Allied health professionals
Clinicians
Educators
Legal professionals
Neuropsychologists
Physicians
Therapists

This list is not exhaustive and the organisers encourage all multi-disciplinary professionals involved in paediatric brain injury to benefit from this valuable opportunity to engage with experts, gain insights, and establish new collaborations.

Registration

Conference registration is now open! To register for the conference by credit card, click here. Prices displayed are in US Dollars and charges will be automatically converted to dollars by your credit card company. Please note that the registration system allows you to enter multiple registrants if desired.

Invoices: If you require an invoice, please register on-line and an invoice will be generated upon checkout. You will be able to access and print the invoice. All invoices are in US Dollars. We are unable to generate invoices in other currencies.

Cancellation Policy: All requests for cancellation must be received in writing to the attention of Colleen LoGrande via email at clogrande@internationalbrain.org, or by letter at PO Box 1804, Alexandria, VA 22313, or by fax at (703) 960-6603 no later than 30 days prior to the start of the conference. All requests for cancellation will incur a $100 cancellation fee.

Conference Format

The conference will feature a number of lively debates on key specialty areas of over a three day period. The educational format will include plenary talks, concurrent tracks for oral presentations, workshops and poster sessions.

About the Venue/Accommodation

The conference will take place at the Crowne Plaza Hotel located directly on the lively Liverpool waterfront. Liverpool, a city rich in culture and history, was recently named a UNESCO world heritage site. Museums, Beatles tours, restaurants, live music and shopping are all within an easy walk of the conference venue. An on-line registration link for booking a room will be available on this website in early 2015.

Conference Reception

Liverpool is home to John, Paul, Ringo and George! Celebrate and enjoy the home of the Bettles with your colleagues. Entertainment, finger buffet and drinks included. It will be a night to remember! An additional fee is required to participate in this event. The reception will take place on Thursday, 17 September, 2015 starting at 18.30 (6:30pm). To register for the reception, click here.

Guideline Development

The conference will serve as a platform for the development of Guidelines for ABI in Children and Adolescents for presentation to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations (UN) UNESCO, particularly focusing on the concept of ABI as a chronic disease process. These Guidelines seek:

To raise awareness about the magnitude, risk factors and impact of ABI globally.
To draw attention to the preventability of brain injuries in children and present what is known about the effectiveness of intervention strategies.
To make recommendations that can be implemented by all countries to effectively reduce ABI in children and adolescents.

About IPBIS & IBIA

The International Paediatric Brain Injury Society (IPBIS) is a professional association of multidisciplinary professionals dedicated to advancing research and disseminating knowledge on pediatric brain injury. Members of IPBIS collaborate to develop and share best practices, mentor colleagues, advance research and promote prevention for the benefit of children, adolescents and young adults with acquired brain injury (ABI) and their families.

In 2013, IPBIS entered into a strategic affiliation with the International Brain Injury Association (IBIA), the world’s largest organization for multidisciplinary professionals working in the field of brain injury. IBIA organizes the biennial World Congress on Brain Injury; the most recently World Congress was held in San Francisco in 2014 and attracted over 1400 multidisciplinary brain injury professionals from over 40 countries.

Planning Committee

The Chairs of the First International Conference on Paediatric Acquired Brain Injury are:

Carol Hawley
Ronald Savage, EdD
Beth Wicks, PhD

Secretariat

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ELEVENTH WORLD CONGRESS ON BRAIN INJURY, MARCH 2 - 5, 2016

Mon, 13 Oct 2014 09:17:00 -0500

WELCOME!

The Eleventh World Congress on Brain Injury will take place on March 2 - March 5, 2016 at the Hague in the Netherlands at the World Forum Conference Center. The theme of this Congress will be "Brain Injury: from Cell to Society".

As the Congress nears, please refer back to this website for additional information.

ABSTRACTS

The abstract submittal system is currently open.

The abstract categories will be:

Neurorehabilitation - activities and participation
Neurorehabilitation - basic research
Neurorehabilitation - case report/clinical research
Neurorehabilitation - public policy
Neurotrauma - basic research
Neurotrauma - case report/clinical research
Neurotrauma - health services and outcomes
Neurotrauma - prevention and public health
Technology - basic research
Technology - clinical research/applications

DATES TO REMEMBER:
Abstract Deadline is September 15, 2015.
Abstract Acceptance emails will be sent out by November 23, 2015.

For more information on abstract submissions, please click here.

To upload your abstract, click here.

CONGRESS OVERVIEW

Held biennially, IBIA World Congress is the largest gathering of international professionals working in the field of brain injury. Delegates are comprised of physicians, psychologists and neuropsychologists, therapists, social workers, nurses, case managers, legal professionals, advocates and all others working in the field of brain injury. Over 1400 multidisciplinary professionals attended our last Congress in San Francisco, California (USA) in 2014.

The Congress program will feature internationally recognized invited speakers, platform lectures, workshops, short oral presentations and poster sessions. The theme of the congress will be Brain Injury: from Cell to Society.

The aim of the Eleventh World Congress is to provide an opportunity for establishing collegial relationships with international professionals focused on the care and/or service of persons with acquired brain injury and/or the science of brain injury research. State of the art research will be presented dealing with information spanning from basic science to clinical (coma to community) aspects of brain injury.

Finally, the Congress seeks to provide didactic opportunities for clinicians interested in advancing their knowledge in brain injury science, medicine and care. The official language of the Congress is English, and sessions are open to all delegates registering to attend the event.

PROGRAM

The program is currently being worked on. Please refer back to this website in 2015 for the program.

PROGRAM & SYMPOSIUM FACULTY

The program and symposium faculty will be posted on this website in 2015. Please refer back.

AWARDS

The IBIA awards are presented during the congress, including the Jennett Plum Award for Clinical Achievement in the Field of Brain Injury Medicine, the Henry Stonnington Awards for best review articles in Brain Injury, the Young Investigator Award, the Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Car of the Year Award.

The criteria for 2016 awards will be posted shortly. To see past awards' criteria, click here .

CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION (CME) and CEU's

IBIA will be seeking medical credits for the upcoming Eleventh World Congress on Brain Injury. For additional information, please refer back as the meeting gets closer.

SOCIAL MEDIA

To receive additional up-to-date information, follow us online at IBIA's Twitter page (I_B_I_A) or IBIA's Facebook at www.facebook.com/ibia123. Additionally, during the meeting, there will be an on-site twoppy application where you will be able access congress information electronically with ease.

SOCIAL PROGRAM & TOURS

Currently, a touring company is being selected for the Congress attendees. Additional information about possible tours will be posted on this site in 2015.

Welcome Reception. Mark your calendar for March 2, 2016 at 6:30pm. Tentatively, the Welcome Reception is scheduled for this date and time. Please refer back to this website in the coming months.

Congress Gala. The Congress Gala will take place on March 5, 2016. Details associated with the Gala location will be posted on this website closer to 2015.

CONGRESS LOCATION AND HOTEL

Details on the Congress Hotel will be posted on the website closer to 2015.

Contact Monica Rodgers, mrodgers@internationalbrain.org with questions or concerns regarding the IBIA hotels.

ENDORSING ORGANIZATIONS

The organizations that will be endorsing the 2016 World Congress haven't been finalized as of yet. Please refer back to the website closer to 2015.

Members of endorsing organizations are given the IBIA members' rate as an act of appreciation. If your organization is interested in endorsing the World Congress, please contact Megan Bell either by email (mbell@internationalbrain.org) or phone (713-526-6900)

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Registration for the Congress will be open in the next few months.

Please note: If you require an invoice, please register. At the end of the registration process, an invoice will be generated. You will be able to access and print it. Due to an adjustment in our accounting system, all invoices are in US Dollars. We are unable to generate invoices in other currencies.

Additionally, the registration system allows you to enter multiple registrants under the same invoice. Please contact us with further questions.

Cancellation Policy: All requests for cancellation must be received in writing to the attention of Colleen LoGrande via email at clogrande@internationalbrain.org, or by letter at PO Box 1804, Alexandria, VA 22313, or by fax at (703) 960-6603 no later than Friday, February 5, 2016 for a full refund.

Requests received after that date but before February 15, 2016, will be considered for a partial refund on a case-by-case basis.

Absolutely no refunds will be granted after February 15, 2016.

All requests for cancellation will incur a $100 cancellation fee.

If you need a visa letter to attend the meeting, please fill out the form by clicking here.

EXHIBIT AND SUPPORT PROSPECTUS

The IBIA Eleventh World Congress on Brain Injury is the largest gathering of international professionals working in the field of brain injury. Delegates are comprised of neurosurgeons, rehabilitation physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, speech pathologists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, social workers, nurses, case managers and legal professionals. Marketing your product or service at the IBIA World Congress brings you face-to-face with the decision makers and key opinion leaders who are shaping the future of brain injury research, treatment and rehabilitation. The World Congress presents a unique opportunity to promote the advances in brain injury made by your organization or company to this highly specialized group of professionals.

The exhibit and support prospectus is currently not available, but if you would liked to be contacted when it is, please contact Megan Bell either by email (mbell@internationalbrain.org) or phone (713-526-6900).

SECRETARIAT

MCC Association Mgt.
5909 Ashby Manor Place
Alexandria, VA 22310
USA
Tel: (+703) 960-6500
Fax: (+703) 960-6603
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Chas Haynes
Margaret Roberts
Principals

Open Access Articles from "Brain Injury"

Thu, 02 Oct 2014 08:44:00 -0500

The two articles listed below are provided in an open access format for a limited time. They are available with the permission of Informa Healthcare, publisher of IBIA's offical journal, Brain Injury.

Patterns and Predictors of follow-up in patients with mild traumatic brain injury

Investigation of blast-induced traumatic brain injury

Brain Injury is one of the benefits of being a member of the International Brain Injury Association. The journal is available to members of IBIA at a fraction of the cost of a regular subscription. With your membership, you will receive 14 electronic issues per year. The journal, Brain Injury, a monthly peer-reviewed, professional scientific journal that encompasses timely topics in brain injury medicine, rehabilitation and community based issues.

To join IBIA, please click here.

Children, Poverty, and Acquired Brain Injury: In Search of Best Neurorehabilitation and Educational Practices

Wed, 01 Oct 2014 21:08:00 -0500

This article is posted with the permission of HDI Publishers and Brain Injury Professional (BIP).
To view the entire issue of BIP, click here.

Charles J. Durgin, MS, MSEd

This article presents a variety of models, perspectives, and guidelines aimed at expanding professional insight and offering intervention strategies. The intended purpose is to help practitioners to better address the needs of children with acquired brain injury (ABI) and their families who are also experiencing severe socio-economic disadvantages. The overarching premise and belief behind this material is that well-conceived interventions can help prevent problems, enhance child learning and growth, strengthen family systems, and improve the quality of community-based supports, even in the most challenging situations.

Risks, Rewards, Obstacles, & Opportunities
Few challenges in life rival the clinical complexities and human struggles associated with a child sustaining a serious neurological injury. When this type of trauma and the related difficulties are compounded by poverty or severe social-economic hardships the treatment process, educational programming, and/or adjustment to the injury is often negatively impacted. Additionally, the risk factors associated with brain injury (see Table 1), family stress and instability, as well as day-to-day adversities can increase dramatically, thereby making positive outcomes harder to obtain.

Individuals and families impacted by ABI who live each day with unyielding financial difficulties and the associated problems that frequently co-exist often have multiple, cumulative, complex, and psychologically stressful obstacles to overcome, in addition to the problems caused by the brain injury itself. This may include but is not limited to problems such as homelessness, unstable housing, transient living, unemployment, hunger, food insecurity, unsafe neighborhoods, voids in recreational or social activities, substandard schools and career development opportunities, inability to pay for basic necessities, inadequate heath care, gaps in access to professional supports, transportation/mobility restrictions, and/or residing in severely under resourced communities.

Figure 1 – Poverty, Socio-Economic Disadvantages, & Neurorehabilitation profiles some of the challenges that too often threaten the prospects of living a safe, productive, satisfying, and fully dignified life for those who sustain an ABI and who are in deep poverty, near poverty, or have been propelled into a devastating life-altering financial crisis. Failure to understand and account for these variables and to strategically address critical barriers, where possible, will in effect limit the effectiveness of professional interventions and community-based supports.

Positive Outcome Attainment

Figure 2 presents a Positive Outcome Equation for your review and consideration: O = f(K, S,O,R). It highlights the critical neurodevelopmental gains (Knowledge & Skills) and external supports (Opportunities & Resources) that must be addressed over time to achieve a positive outcome. In short, for children and youth Outcomes are a Function of KNOWLEDGE + SKILLS + OPPORTUNITIES + RESOURCES.

The intent of this model is to lay bare if you will, the realities associated with getting results that are personally meaningful and sensitive to the many unique circumstances, contexts, influences, and forces that impact a child’s life. The Blue Target Zone on the left side of the equation (Neurorehabilitation & Educational Programming) represents interventions and supports that are typically offered in structured, formal, and/or controlled professional service settings. These can be thought of as contexts of significant professional influence. The Red Target Zone (Home & Community-Based Interventions) represents the second half of the equation and highlights the critical need to have services impact across settings and over time. This is traditionally an area of less specialized professional involvement and influence, particularly as the individual moves further and further away from inpatient care and/or intensive neurorehabilitation. The argument that this model presents is as follows: If any one of the four variables that make up this equation is missing compromised, the individual’s ability to reach their true potential is lost and/or diminished.

This in turn raises a number of questions for individual practitioners, program leaders, researchers, policy makers, accreditation organizations, reimbursement agents, and educators. What is our scope of practice and sphere of influence? Do our professional insights and treatment recommendations reach far enough and follow the individual long enough to ensure that we will have the greatest impact? What degree of influence and/or responsibility do we have for outreach, advocacy, building new and diverse collaborative partnerships, and engaging the outside world? Are we willing to extend ourselves, perhaps go outside our comfort zone to make things happen, assuming that we are operating within the boundaries of our discipline standards of practice, professional roles, and program design? Are those practices too narrowly defined when it comes to serving people who are in the most disadvantaged and impoverished circumstances? Do we believe that we can really make a significant difference?

The conceptual underpinnings of the Positive Outcome Attainment model challenges us in our daily work to ask – To what extent does best practice knowledge live in the life of people with ABI who will likely benefit? Whether they are rich or poor, young or old, mild or severely injured, or if they reside in urban, suburban or rural neighborhoods? If the answer is that our impact is “significantly limited or non-existent” in this regard, then what can we do about it? These are not just moral or philosophical questions or dilemmas of clinical practice and educational programming. Nor are these questions rooted in quixotic desires and motives that may be reaching too high. In the end, beating the odds and attaining outcomes is often a matter of highly focused interventions and strategic intent over time, combined with shear and a willingness to find ways to deepening our insight to each individual’s circumstance in order to increase the potency and effectiveness of our collective work (Durgin, Gioia, & colleagues, 2010).

The stakes are high. For children with ABI given their dependency and incomplete developmental status this means that access to high-quality neurorehabilitation and educational expertise post-onset and during the developmental years is critical. Short-term gains and future success hinges on accessing services, placements, personal relationships, social activities, and/or community connections that are accepting, knowledgeable, confident, positive, motivating, flexible, and imaginative. Yet to this day many professional, human service and natural support systems are well-intentioned but ill-informed and ill-equipped. Consequently, many supports need to be found, modified, nurtured, and/or created. In this respect the work of Acker (1990) presented in Table 2 reinforces a numb er of critical points when it comes to serving people with brain injury as they take on the challenges of everyday living. It highlights the importance of understanding how ABI can present so differently in therapeutic vs. real world settings and the need to consider these significant contextual differences when reaching out to and collaborating with all stakeholders.

The Poverty-Disability Link in Developing Countries
Gerstenbrand and Binder (2006) note that in the extremes of neurorehabilitation practice the world is divided into two parts, with affluent nations struggling with costs and access to advanced treatments while undeveloped regions are besieged with infectious diseases, hunger, and poverty, in addition to disability-specific needs which receive far less attention. In an effort to bring attention to the vicious cycle of poverty and disability in developing countries, Yeo & Moore (2003) created two integrated models that show: A) why people with disabilities experience disproportionally high rates of poverty, and B) ways that poverty can increase an individual’s risk of acquiring an impairment resulting in disability (see Figure 3). These are worthwhile models to consider when analyzing how negative external influences can harm, trap, threaten, and/or overcome vulnerable individuals. Taken together they highlight the social, environmental, health care, economic, institutional, and attitudinal forces that can either enhance or compromise the wellbeing of persons impacted by ABI (or any significant disability) who live in extremely impoverished communities or conditions.

Without question, many developing countries are not able to enforce basic social protections and provide minimal socio-economic opportunities to the individuals who wish to move their lives forward, whether they have a disability or not. Consequently, as is so often the case in these circumstances, young chil dren, women, minorities, elderly persons, and individuals with significant disabilities and/or medical needs suffer greatly and disproportionately. However, as is the purpose for developing this poverty-disability framework, understanding the nature and scope of the presenting problems within the individual, family, cultural, and historical contexts can help professionals, activists, political leaders, policy makers, support agencies, and the like to identify the most promising interventions to strategically address the problems at hand. These are among the most urgent, profoundly difficult, and heartbreaking challenges that call for the highest levels of humanitarian support and advocacy.

Advanced Practice Strategies
The competency areas and strategies presented in Table 3 provide recommendations for neurorehabilitation practitioners and educators. They are not technical, discipline-specific content areas but focus on building high-value working partnerships and networks, which in turn can enable professionals to use their knowledge and skills to maximum effect. Many of the strategies are similar to person-centered planning principles and the use of subjective reports to define quality of life needs, service preferences, and meaningful opportunities, all of which are considered to be the gold standard for serving individuals with ABI (Brown and Gordon, 2004).

Final Thoughts
When we consider the key ingredients needed to effectively serve the many children who are among the most disadvantaged the implications are inescapable. Children with ABI and their families who live in poverty need expanded, customized, ongoing, and efficacious supports. This includes access to staff who do not carry deficit perspectives about the capabilities of people in poverty (Sanders, 2013) or who have a negative bias about the meaning and presence of a disability. Given the ever increasing diversity within our society practitioners must also continuously explore cultural perspectives, factors influencing personal identity, family strengths, and community assets (Arango-Lasprilla & Kreutzer, 2010; Pitt, Romero-Ramirez, Lewis, & Boston, 2010). Furthermore, children in the most disadvantaged circumstances require more than legal protections, treatment plans, educational goals, basic goods, and sound advice. They need equal opportunities and the necessary resources mobilized to help them arrive at a favorable outcome given their unique needs, desires, preferences, values, and capabilities.

Failure within our society to offer this level of assistance is unfair and inequitable at best when compared to those who take on the challenge of brain injury with sufficient resources. It’s also a grave injustice to so many children who do everything that is asked of them post-onset – surgeries, new educational placements, coping with the loss of peer contact, managing pain, putting up with restrictions, engaging in therapies, modifying pre-injury goals and aspirations, and finding the strength to believe in themselves and their future, to name a few.

The vast majority of children and families do everything within their power and means to get ahead. They put their trust and faith in professionals and others to help them move beyond what is likely to be one of their greatest moments of need. And although there are known approaches and positive interventions that can contribute to making their hopes and dreams a reality, more needs to be done to develop stronger collaborative partnerships that can help circumvent environmentally imposed restrictions and limitations (Ramkumar & Elliott, 2010). This is especially true if each and every person with a brain injury, regardless of age, income, race, gender, family composition, severity of injury, place of residence, and the like, are going to have a fighting chance to reach their full potential.

In many respects these are our 21st century health care, educational, community development, policy, and human service challenges. Fortunately, there are many highly talented neurorehabilitation and educational practitioners, among other influential and caring parties, that have the insight, wisdom, compassion, skills, and drive to take the actions necessary to truly make a difference.

References
Acker, M.B. (1990). A review of the ecological validity of neuropsychological tests. In D.E. Tupper & K.D. Cicerone (Eds.), The neuropsychology of everyday life: Assessment and basic competencies (pp. 19-55). Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Arango-Lasprilla, J.C., & Kreutzer, J.S. (2010). Racial and ethnic disparities in functional, psychosocial, and neurobehavioral outcomes after brain injury. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 25(2), 128-136.
Brown M., & Gordon W.A. (2004). Empowerment in measurement: “muscle,” “voice,” and subjective quality of life as a gold standard. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 85(Suppl. 2), 13-20.
Durgin, C.J. (2000). Increasing community participation after brain injury: Strategies for identifying and reducing the risks. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, 15(6), 1195-1207.
Durgin C.J., Gioia G.A., & colleagues (2010). Consulting to support children and youth with acquired brain injuries: Ten principles for consideration. Journal of Behavioral and Neuroscience Research, 8(1), 49-59.
Gerstenbrand, F., & Binder H. (2006). Neurorehabilitation and the epoch of globalization. Abstracts of the 4th World Congress for Neurorehabilitation. Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair, 20, 88.
Pitt, J.S., Romero-Ramirez, M., Lewis, P.H., & Boston, Q. (2010). Triple threat of disability, race, and poverty: Considerations for rehabilitation practice and research. Journal of Minority Disability Research and Practice, 1(3), 7-29.
Ramkumar, N.A., & Elliott, T.R. (2010). Family caregiving of persons following neuortrauma: Issues in research, service, and policy. NeuroRehabilitation, 27(1), 105-112.
Sanders, M. (2013). Poverty, families, and schools. In V. Thompson (Ed.), Urban ills: Confronting Twenty First Century dilemmas of urban living in global contexts. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
Yeo R., & Moore K. (2003). Including disabled people in poverty reduction work: “Nothing about us, without us.” World Development, 31(3), 571–590.

About the Author
Charles J. Durgin, MS, MSEd, works at the Kennedy Krieger Institute and is an adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Education and Human Development at George Washington University. He has directed three neurorehabilitation centers, consulted with over sixty human service programs, co-edited the book Staff Development and Clinical Intervention in Brain Injury Rehabilitation, and provided staff training to help repatriate Canadian citizens with brain injury who were being served in the United States. He has graduate degrees in education from the State University of New York at Albany and Johns Hopkins University. Email: durgin@kennedykrieger.org.

To view the entire issue of Brain Injury Professional in which this issue appeared, please click here.

INTL Issue 35

Mon, 18 Aug 2014 11:44:00 -0500

A Quarterly E-Publication of the International Brain Injury Association

IN THIS ISSUE

Fatigue Following Brain Injury
J. Ponsford

Examination of Brain Injury Thresholds in Terms of the Severity of Head Motion and the Brain Stresses
A. Rezaei, G. Karami, M. Ziejewski

Simulation and Clinical Assessment of Blast-Induced Traumatic Brain Injury
P. Taylor, J. Ludwigsen, A. Vakhtin, C. Ford

Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries were Previously Undiagnosed, and Therefore Uncertain, and Damages Speculative
R. Bitonite, K. Hecht, D. DeSanto, B. Tribuzio

"As You are Now, So Once was I": A Reflection on Empathy when Working with Persons with Acquired Brain Injury
C. Hartwell

NeuroVive Pharma Updates on Cyclosporine's Progress toward Approval as a Pharmaceutical for Treating Moderate to Severe Traumatic Brain Injury
S. Campbell, E. Elmer, M. Bronnegard

Recent Articles of Note

Brain Injury e-Toc Alert

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Recap of Tenth World Congress on Brain Injury

The Tenth World Congress on Brain Injury was held at the Hyatt Embarcadero Hoel in San Francisco, California, on March 19-22, 2014. Over 1400 delegates from 43 countries contributed to the largest and most educationally significant conference in IBIA's history.

For a full recap of the Congress, please click here.

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Securing CME/CEU Credits for the 10th World Congress on Brain Injury

Mon, 31 Mar 2014 08:12:00 -0500

How to claim your CME Credit and General Certificate of Attendance

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Click on this link www.cmevillage.com or enter this url in your Internet Explorer browser (if using an iPhone or an iPad, it may not display correctly).
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For problems, contact Colleen Conner (cac9f@virginia.edu) in the CME office.

The Robert D. Voogt NABIS Founders Award Recipient Announced

Wed, 13 Feb 2019 09:18:00 -0600

Dr. Tatyana Mollayeva has been awarded the first Rober D. Voogt NABIS Founders Award which is jointly sponsored by Robert D. Voogt's family and the North American Brain Injury Society.

Dr. Mollayeva has dedicated close to ten years of her career to the advancement of the traumatic brain injury research. She has been supported during her graduate studies and post-doctoral research by prestigious agencies such as the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Frederick Banting and Charles Best Canada, The Alzheimer's Association of America, and the National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Tatyana Mollayeva received her medical degree from the Moscow Medical Academy and worked for the Ministry of Health in Central Asia. Upon immigrating to Canada, she was trained in sleep medicine and completed her PhD on the topic of sleep dysfunction in traumatic brain injury. She is currently a postdoctoral research fellow working with Professor Angela Colantonio on the topics related to injury prevention, cognitive outcome assessment, gender and brain injury comorbidity, incorporating sleep function in all research hypotheses. Since her entry into research in 2010, Dr. Mollayeva has authored more than thirty peer reviewed papers, three book chapters, and a book on polysomnography. Her contributions have been recognized internationally by the early career Award from the American Academy of Rehabilitation Medicine and the Elio Lugaresi Award for Education from the World Sleep Congress.

We would like to thank all of those that submtted an application for the RDV Founders Award. There was large number of applications submitted. For this award, the requirement was that it be presented to an individual who demonstrates dedication to the advancement of the traumatic brain injury field. The intent is to recognize contributions made in the areas of clinical care, research, policy, litigation, or advocacy. The individual or institution should represent the tenacious spirit and unwavering commitment towards persons with traumatic brain injuries that Dr Robert Voogt exemplified over his lifetime.

Congratulations, Tatyana Mollayeva.

Third International Conference on Paediatric Acquired Brain Injury

Thu, 08 Feb 2018 12:03:00 -0600

EVENT CONCLUDED. THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING!

MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR IPBIS 2020 IN

NEW YORK CITY

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2018 CONFERENCE INFORMATION FOLLOWS

Belfast, Northern Ireland
26-28 September, 2018

View the Preliminary Program Here!

For more details about the Preconference & Symposia Sessions click here!

Overview
Keynote Plenary Speakers
Pre-Conference Sessions
Symposium Sessions
About the Conference
Who Should Attend
Call for Abstracts and Proposal Submissions
Registration

Gala
Hotel Accomodations
Exhibit and Support
Conference Format
About the Venue
Jane Gillett Award
About IPBIS & IBIA
Planning Committee

OVERVIEW

The International Paediatric Brain Injury Society (IPBIS) is pleased to announce that the Third International Conference on Paediatric Acquired Brain Injury will be held in Belfast, Northern Ireland, from 26-28, September, 2018.

This international event builds on the success of IPBIS’s prior conferences held in Liverpool (2015) and Rome (2017).

The conference will focus on the development of innovative treatments, rehabilitation programmes, support mechanisms and ways to improve the lives and potential of young people affected by brain injury. The educational programme will be inclusive of all issues relating to paediatric brain injury, both traumatic (e.g., external physical force injuries, penetrating injuries) and atraumatic (e.g., infectious diseases, tumours, stroke, neurotoxic poisonings).

The IPBIS strives to achieve gender balance in all aspects of their third conference on promoting well-being in children and young people with ABI and their families. The committee endeavours to achieve this balance through equal female and male representation on the organising committees and as session chairs as well as through invitations to high quality speakers of both sexes in line with the gender balance in our research community.

GUIDANCE FOR THE POST-DISCHARGE REHABILITATION OF CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS WITH ACQUIRED BRAIN INJURY – ‘TOOLBOX’ LAUNCHED IN BELFAST AT THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PAEDIATRIC BRAIN INJURY

This ‘toolbox’, instigated by the International Paediatric Brain Injury Society (IPBIS), and produced together with The Eden Dora Trust for Children with Encephalitis, was launched at the Third International Conference on Paediatric Acquired Brain Injury in Belfast.

The toolbox contains an overview of a wide range of tools and programmes for use by health professionals. The majority of the toolbox contents are free to use, with web addresses and/or contact details provided so that further information can be obtained.

Health professionals can access the toolbox here.

ABSTRACT AND PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS

Abstract acceptance notifications have been sent out.

The organisers encourage the submission of original paediatric brain injury research for presentation at the conference. Abstracts have been scored by the Scientific Programme Committee and accepted work will be presented in either short oral presentions or as a poster.

Information for Oral Presenters

Information for Poster Presenters

The categories are as follows:

Cognitive, social and behavioural rehabilitation
Developmental issues through childhood, adolescence and young adulthood
Education issues
Epidemiology
Family supports/interventions
Life-long and chronic issues
Litigation and criminal issues
Long term medical concerns and issues
Mild brain injury and sports concussion
Non-accidental and non-traumatic brain injury
Outcome measurements
Prevention
Technology in rehabilitation
Transition issues

PLENARY KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
The Conference's Plenary Keynote Speakers are:

PRE-CONFERENCE SESSIONS
There will be four half-day pre-conference sessions which will take place at Riddel Hall on Wednesday, 26 September, 2018. For more information on the sessions, please view below.

SYMPOSIUM SESSIONS
On Thursday, 27 September - Friday, 28 September 2018, various symposia sessions will take place in Riddel Hall. For more information on these sessions, please view below.

The Thursday, 27 September 2018 Symposia are:

The Friday, 28 September 2018 Symposia are:

Click here to view the Preliminary Programme

EDUCATION OBJECTIVES

The Planning Committee is developing a broad educational programme that will address a wide range of brain injury topics, including:

The epidemiology of acquired brain injuries in children and adolescents from a world health care perspective,
Evidence-based research regarding the nature and efficacy of medical, clinical and educational rehabilitation of acquired brain injuries in children and adolescents,
The varied causes of ABI in childhood, including medical conditions and non-accidental traumatic injuries,
Protocols to support families affected by paediatric ABI, towards affecting change at National and International levels,
Models of innovative systems, services and supports for children/adolescents with ABI and their families, and
How to better recognize, manage and treat mTBI/Concussions in children/adolescents.

The complete programme will be posted after the abstracts have been reviewed by the Planning Committee.

View the Preliminary Program Here!

For more details about the Preconference Sessions click here!

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

The Conference will bring together multidisciplinary professionals with an interest in improving outcomes for children, adolescents, and young adults with brain injury.

Attendees will be comprised of physicians, neuropsychologists, therapists, allied health professionals, and brain injury advocates. This list is not exhaustive and the organisers expect all multidisciplinary professionals involved in paediatric brain injury will benefit from this valuable opportunity to engage with experts, gain insights, and establish new collaborations.

EXHIBITS & SUPPORT

Your sponsorship and/or exhibit presence at the conference will bring you face-to-face with the decision makers and key opinion leaders who are shaping the future of paediatric brain injury research, treatment and rehabilitation. This Conference presents a unique opportunity to promote your organisation to this highly specialized group of professionals. IPBIS can offer a variety of support and exhibit opportunities with a range of price points to fit any budget.

For more information on exhibit and support opportunities, please click here. To view the prospectus, click here.

If you are interested in exhibiting and/or sponsoring at the meeting or have questions, please contact Megan Bell-Johnston at mbell@internationalbrain.org.

REGISTRATION

Main Meeting Registration, click here.

Pre Conference Registration ONLY, click here.

Group Registration, click here.

Group Discounts
Bringing (5) or more people to the Congress? A 5% discount will apply to all group reservations of Member and Non-Member rates (does not pertain to Pre-conference, Trainee or Gala rates).

Group registrations must consist of 5 or more people and may be any combination of members, non-members, or trainees. Please note the following:

All (5) or more people must register at the same time. Any previously registered attendees can be added to your group; however, a $100 processing fee will be charged.
Only member and non-member rates in the group will receive a 5% discount.
Only one invoice will be generated for the group; we unfortunately cannot accommodate individual invoices or receipts.
The 5% discount will not apply to any pre-conference, gala, or trainee registrations.

Wire Transfer Fees
Registrants are responsible for all fees (both front and back end) incurred with wire transfers. Your registration will not be considered complete until all fees have been paid. For further information please contact Colleen LoGrande at clogrande@internationalbrain.org.

Cancellation Policy
Please find the cancellation policy here.

Visa Letter
IPBIS IS HAPPY TO PROVIDE OFFICIAL VISA LETTERS FOR REGISTERED DELEGATES

Upon registering for the conference, you will be asked if you need a Visa Letter from the following options:

Yes, and I am an abstract submitter/ presenter
Yes, and I am NOT an abstract submitter/ presenter

Please be sure to select the choice that best identifies your situation, so that we may provide you with the correct visa letter.

NOTE: You will not receive the Visa Letter until you have selected your choice and completed registration, or called the IBIA administrative office at 703-960-6500.

IPBIS GALA

Please find details surrounding the Gala here.

HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS & AIRLINE DISCOUNTS

Please find information regarding hotel accommodations here.

Please find airline discounts here.

CONFERENCE FORMAT

The conference will feature a number of lively debates on key specialty areas over a three day period. The educational format will include plenary talks, concurrent tracks for oral presentations, symposia and poster sessions.

View the Preliminary Program Here!

For more details about the Preconference Sessions click here!

ABOUT THE VENUE AND BELFAST

The conference will be held in Riddel Hall at Queens University, a sympathetically renovated Grade-2 listed building retaining many original features while incorporating the best of today’s technology.

The city of Belfast was named as the “2018 Top Region to Visit” by Lonely Planet, and the surrounding area offer dining options and activities to suit all tastes. The old docklands are now the home to exciting restaurants, hip bars, and attractions including the sensational Titanic Museum where the IPBIS conference dinner will be held.

Beyond lies the Causeway Coast, whose timeless beauty and high-grade distractions – golf, whiskey and some of the world’s most famous rocks – are more popular now than ever. Game of Thrones fans will not want to miss the opportunity to take a guided tour of the real Westeros!

ABOUT IPBIS

Members of IPBIS collaborate to develop and share best practices, mentor colleagues, advance research and promote prevention for the benefit of children, adolescents and young adults with acquired brain injury and their families.

In 2013, IPBIS entered into a strategic affiliation with the International Brain Injury Association (IBIA), the world’s largest organisation for multidisciplinary professionals working in the field of brain injury. In 2015 and 2017, IPBIS organised highly successful, abstract driven conferences in Liverpool and Rome respectively, each attracting over 400 delegates from more than 40 countries around the globe.

PLANNING COMMITTEE

Mark Linden, Conference Chair
Ronald Savage, Conference Co-Chair
Beth Wicks, Conference Co-Chair
Carol Hawley, IPBIS Chair

Vicki Anderson	Ann Glang	Peter Patrick
Karen Barlow	Eli Gunnarson	Jennie Ponsford
Miriam Beauchamp	Juliet Haarbauer-Krupa	George Prigatano
Barbara Benz	Carol Hawley	Michael Radix
Katie Byard	Eric Hermans	Peter Rumney
Enrico Castelli	Nathan Hughes	Ron Savage
Mathilde Chevignard	Catherine Aaro Jonsson	Semyon Slobounov
Al Condeluci	Heather Keenan	Katherine Snedaker
Peter de Koning	Bryan Kolb	James Tonks
Carol DeMatteo	Ingela Kristiansen	David Walker
Roberta DePompei	John Leddy	Beth Wicks
Linda Ewing-Cobbs	Mark Linden	Elisabeth Wilde
Torun Gangaune Finnanger	Alison Madden	Barry Willer
Rob Forsyth	Audrey McKinlay	Huw Williams
Isabelle Gagnon	Greg O'Shannick	Keith Yeates
Gerard Gioia	Pritesh Parbhoo	Nathan Zasler

JANE GILLETT AWARD

Dr. Jane Gillett was a paediatric and adult neurologist who was at the forefront of brain injury treatment. She was the medical director of the Acquired Brain Injury Program at Hamilton Health Sciences in Hamilton (ON, Canada) and an Associate Professor at McMaster University.

In order to honor and always remember this outstanding woman and to stimulate others to provide services using her philosophies, the Board of Directors of the International Paediatric Brain Injury Society created the Dr. Jane Gillett Award. This award is being generously supported by the Gluckstein Personal Injury Lawyers of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Applications were due by the close of business on 14 July, 2018. To learn more about the award and Dr. Jane Gillett, click here.

SECRETARIAT

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Due to a technical difficulty with our phone system, the IBIA number is currently out of order.
We are working to fix the problem and apologize for the inconvenience. In the meantime, please call 703-960-6500.

Chas Haynes
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Principals

IBIA 13th World Congress

Thu, 08 Feb 2018 12:00:00 -0600

The upcoming IBIA World Congress will take place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in March 2019 at the Sheraton Centre. For more information on the congress, click here.

PINK CONCUSSIONS Founder Featured on Good Morning America

Wed, 07 Feb 2018 11:11:00 -0600

Pink Concussions Founder, Katherine Snedaker, was featured recently on Good Morining America.

To view the interview, click here.

The North American Brain Injury Society enters into formal affiliation agreement with the International Brain Injury Association

Wed, 28 Dec 2016 12:43:00 -0600

It is our pleasure to share with you that after extensive due diligence and thoughtful consideration, the boards of the North American Brain Injury Society (NABIS) and the International Brain Injury Association (IBIA), have voted unanimously to approve a formal affiliation agreement under which NABIS will join IBIA as a special section. This agreement, drafted by Jeffrey Leiter, the long-time outside counsel for both organizations, will allow NABIS and IBIA to deliver significantly enhanced membership benefits to the brain injury professionals that make up both groups. Members of NABIS and IBIA will now have access to a comprehensive set of benefits that combines the strengths of both organizations, providing a more valuable membership experience and the opportunity to be part of a larger and more influential alliance.

Specifically, the full suite of membership benefits now includes:

• Twelve monthly issues of the IBIA’s official journal, Brain Injury, one of the most respected peer-reviewed publications on the subject of brain injury.
• A quarterly subscription to Brain Injury Professional, the largest circulation publication in the field of brain injury.
• Access to other IBIA affiliates and special interest groups, such as the Disorders of Conscious Group and the International Pediatric Brain Injury Society.
• Significant discounts to the biennial IBIA World Congress on Brain Injury.
• Exclusive member discounts for the International Conference on Pediatric Brain Injury.
• Registration discounts to the NABIS medical conferences and annual NABIS legal conference.

Combined, NABIS and IBIA will represent the largest professional membership organization for brain injury professionals in the world. The affiliation will allow both organizations to take advantage of economies of scale, which in turn are expected to enhance and increase operational efficiencies.

As an affiliate of IBIA, NABIS will retain its corporate identity and will play an active and on-going role in organizing IBIA’s biennial World Congress on Brain Injury. In even years when the World Congress is not held, NABIS will continue to organize topic-specific and regional meetings in North America. NABIS will also continue to organize the Conference on Legal Issues in Brain Injury which is now in its third decade.

It is indeed an exciting time to be a member of NABIS and IBIA. As the field of brain injury continues to mature and evolve internationally, we expect that additional affiliation opportunities may arise and we look forward to exploring collaborative opportunities with other regional and national groups in the future. Now more than ever, it is critical for multidisciplinary brain injury professionals to collaborate and accelerate change. Our boards realized that we shared similar missions and it was in that spirit that we came together.
This partnership leverages the strengths of both organizations and will build upon our shared goal of advancing brain injury research into practice. Together we will continue to deliver educational content of the highest quality and to empower our members to provide the best possible care for persons with brain injury.

Mariusz Ziejewski, PhD, Chairman and CEO, North American Brain Injury Society
David Arciniegas, MD, Chairman and CEO, International Brain Injury Association

Click here to read the article within the edition of Brain Injury Professional.

Disorders of Consciousness Special Interest Group

Wed, 01 Jun 2016 11:20:00 -0500

We have the pleasure to announce the creation of a Special Interest Group (SIG) on Disorders of Consciousness (DOC) within the IBIA! We encourage participation in the DOC SIG by interested clinicians and researchers.

MISSION AND VISION STATEMENT

The mission of the IBIA DOC SIG is to provide an international forum for exchange between brain injury professionals, as well as, neuroscientists on the study, assessment, and care of persons with disorders of consciousness, their families, and the systems serving them.

The vision of the IBIA DOC SIG is to be the premier international networking and information exchange resource for brain injury professionals and neuroscientists working with persons with disorders of consciousness, their families, and the systems serving them.

STRATEGIC GOALS

Create a track at the IBIA World Congress for reporting advances in the field through workshops, symposia, platform, and poster sessions.
Develop and maintain a listserve for IBIA DOC SIG members.
Collaborate with other professional societies, collaboratives, and centers of excellence with interest in DOCs.
Recruit DOC SIG members to facilitate a quarterly submission on a DOC related topic to the International NeuroTrauma Letter.
Educate through dissemination of evidence, white papers, and guidelines on the study, evaluation, and management of persons with DOCs, their families, and the systems serving them either directly through IBIA or through presentation at other relevant meetings (i.e. WCNR, INTS, etc.).
Hold regional meetings of the IBIA DOC SIG in the years between IBIA World Congresses.

TERMS OF PARTICIPATION

Interested persons can join the IBIA DOC SIG for a period of two years without IBIA affiliation, after which membership in IBIA is required for continued participation.
Only IBIA members will have voting rights.
To join, please contact Dr. Caroline Schnakers, the DOC SIG Chair. Her contact information is below.

SUBGROUPS AND PROJECTS

Treatment Subgroup

Treatment of Disorders of Consciousness – an international comparison Research Project Summary: In this project we want to explore the available rehabilitative and health services across different countries, focusing on the structures, as well as the types of treatment for patients with DOC.
Light therapy: This multicentric study aims at investigating the effect of light therapy on patients with DOC.
Multicentric study on tDCS: The idea is to evaluate different areas of stimulation in acute and chronic DOC patients, as well as the long term effect of tDCS.
Guidelines for the treatment of epilepsy: this project aims at discussing and creating guidelines for the treatment of epilepsy in patients with DOC.

Diagnosis/ Prognosis Subgroup

Diagnostic and Prognostic Multicentric Longitudinal Study on Prolonged Disorders of Consciousness. This project aims at identifying the clinical and neurophysiological markers able to distinguish subgroups of VS and MCS patients who can improve from patients with a low probability to recover.
International Survey on Diagnostic and Prognostic Procedures. This survey would like to explore diagnostic protocols and prognostic procedures currently adopted in a neurorehabilitation setting in different countries.
Music Therapy Assessment Tool for Awareness in Disorders of Consciousness, MATADOC. Two multicentric studies aimed at: 1) validating the MATADOC against the CRS-R, particularly exploring comparable items across similar domains in adult population; 2) elaborating and validating a paediatric version of such music-based diagnostic tool.

CHAIR AND CO-CHAIR

Chair: Caroline Schnakers, PhD

Co-chair: Nathan D. Zasler, MD, FAAPM&R,

FAADEP, DAAPM, CBIST

For more information, click here!

To read the DOC SIG Announcement letter, please click here.

Announcing the new IBIA Disorders of Consciousness Special Interest Group

Fri, 12 Jun 2015 07:33:00 -0500

David B. Arciniegas, MD
May 29, 2015

During the Pre-Congress Workshop on Disorders of Consciousness (DOC) at IBIA's Tenth World Congress on Brain Injury in San Francisco, John Whyte, MD, PhD, Joseph Giacino, PhD, and Risa Nakase-Richardson, PhD (the leaders of that workshop) suggested that the large (70+ person) group of DOC scientists, clinicians, and educators assembled there might organize themselves into an IBIA-based international special interest group (SIG) focused on this subject. The three of them approached Nathan Zasler, MD and I with this idea, about which we were very enthusiastic. Over the following several months, a series of emails and phone calls about this possibility culminated in my meeting with Drs. Giacino, Richardson, and Whyte in Washington DC in June 2014 to discuss this proposal.

At that meeting, we collectively agreed to pursue this idea further and to evaluate the capacity of IBIA to effectively host this kind of a group. We also agreed to collaborate on identifying an individual within IBIA who would spearhead this endeavor - one with whom we all could collaborate effectively and whose position as a leader of the IBIA DOC SIG would not overlap with the leadership of the DOC groups within ACRM and the TBI Model Systems network.

Over the following months, Dr. Zasler and I worked with them toward these ends. This included amending the IBIA bylaws to accommodate the creation of SIGs within our association, the doing of which was unanimously approved by a vote of the IBIA Board of Governors earlier this month. We worked with our team of professionals in the IBIA home office to evaluate the IT infrastructure needed to support the operations of this SIG (and, if such develop, other IBIA SIGs) and the cost of supporting this endeavor. In short order, we discerned that enabling on-line members-only web access, listserve capabilities, document sharing, conference call/VOIP/videoconference is well within our organizational capabilities. We then identified Caroline Schnakers, PhD (an outstanding DOC investigator who trained within from the Coma Science Group in Liege, Belgium, was the 2010 winner of the IBIA Young Investigator Award, and now works at the University of California - Los Angeles) as an outstanding candidate to lead the nascent IBIA DOC SIG. She graciously agreed to take on this role. Dr. Zasler, initially identified as liaison between the IBIA Executive Committee and the IBIA DOC SIG, more recently agreed to serve as Dr. Schnaker’s Co-Chair for this new group. Drs. Zasler and Schnakers and I drafted mission and vision statements for the IBIA DOC SIG and outlined its near-term strategic goals (see below); these, too, were reviewed and unanimously approved by a vote of the IBIA Board of Governors earlier this month.

We believe strongly that IBIA members, the persons and families with brain injury that we serve, and IBIA itself will benefit from supporting this kind of grassroots, member-driven endeavor. The creation of IBIA SIGs, and especially the IBIA DOC SIG, parallels closely the process by which IPBIS was formed and became a Section of IBIA: a group of like-minded brain injury professionals convenes at an IBIA World Congress and becomes self-organizing group seeking to organize their efforts in a manner that benefits the group’s members, IBIA, and the brain injury community that we serve.

On behalf of IBIA, I want to officially welcome the IBIA DOC SIG into association. We look forward coordinating its efforts with Drs. Schnakers and Zasler and to supporting the SIG's work for many years to come. We encourage all interested IBIA members and collaborators to reach out to Dr. Schnakers about joining the new IBIA DOC SIG and to meeting with its members next year at IBIA’s Eleventh World Congress on Brain Injury in The Hague.

For more information on IBIA's DOC SIG Group, please click here.

The First International Conference on Paediatric Acquired Brain Injury

Thu, 06 Nov 2014 21:04:00 -0600

The International Conference on Paediatric Acquired Brain Injury
Supporting Young People and Their Families to Maximise Good Outcomes and Quality of Life
Crowne Plaza Hotel
Liverpool, United Kingdom
16-18 September, 2015

This programme is supported by the
Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH)

This event is now over. Close to 500 pediatric brain injury professionals from around the world attended this unique educational event. A full conference recap will be posted on this page shortly.

Programme pdf, click here

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Welcome
About the Conference
Education Objectives
Continuing Education Credit
Abstracts & Preliminary Programme
Who should attend
Registration
Exhibit and Support
Conference Format
About the Venue & Accommodations
IPBIS Social Event
About IPBIS & IBIA
Planning Committee

WELCOME

The International Paediatric Brain Injury Society (IPBIS) and the International Brain Injury Association (IBIA) would like to invite you to attend the First International Conference on Paediatric Acquired Brain Injury, to be held in 16-18 September, 2015 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Liverpool, England. To read a Welcome Letter from the chair, Carol Hawley, PhD, and co-chairs, Ronald Savage, EdD, and Beth Wicks, click here.

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

SPECIAL PRE-CONFERENCE SESSIONS

IPBIS is pleased to include two special half-day pre-conference sessions that will occur on Wednesday, September 16, 2016 from 1:00 to 5:00pm.

Clinical Assessment and Management of Concussion in Children and Adolescents
Chairs: Michael Collins (USA) Audrey McKinlay (Australia) Panelists: Vicki Anderson (Australia) Barry Willer (USA) John Leddy (USA)

Family Resilience After ABI: Working with Families to Find their Positive Place
Chairs: Roberta DePompei (USA) Lucia Braga (Brazil). Panelists: Family members (UK) Caron Gan (Canada) Jenny Jim (UK) Ann Glang (USA)

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES

The Scientific Planning Committee is developing a broad educational programme that will address a wide range of topics, including:

The epidemiology of acquired brain injuries in children and adolescents from a world health care perspective.
Evidenced-based research regarding the nature and efficacy of medical, clinical and educational treatment of acquired brain injuries in children and adolescents.
The varied causes of ABI in childhood, including medical conditions and non-accidental traumatic injuries.
Development of advocacy protocols to support families affected by paediatric ABI, towards affecting change at National and International levels.
Models of innovative systems, services and supports for children/adolescents with ABI and their families.
How to better recognise, manage and treat mTBI/Concussions in children/adolescents.

CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS

The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has approved this activity for up to a total of 17 CPD credits, in accordance with the current RCPCH CPD Guidelines as follows:

Special Pre-Conference Sessions 16/09/2015: 3.5 CPD Credits
Thursday 17/09/2015: 6 CPD Credits
Friday 18/09/2015: 7.5 CPD Credits

This programme has be accredited by Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL) Training for 17.75 CPD hours (4 hours for the pre-conference session and 13.75 hours for the main conference).

Participation Certificates: A Certificate of Attendance will be provided to each requesting participant. Please stop by the registration desk for details.

EXHIBITS & SUPPORT

Please note: only three exhibit spaces are remaining! Your sponsorship and/or exhibit presence at the conference will bring you face-to-face with the decision makers and key opinion leaders who are shaping the future of paediatric brain injury research, treatment and rehabilitation. This Conference presents a unique opportunity to promote your organisation to this highly specialized group of professionals. IPBIS can offer a variety of support and exhibit opportunities with a range of price points to fit any budget.

If you are interested in exhibiting sponsoring the meeting, please contact Megan M. Bell at mbell@internationalbrain.org. You can download a complete prospectus by clicking here.

ABSTRACTS AND PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

Click here for the Conference Abstracts.
For the current programme, click here.

The meeting's "Call for Abstracts" is now closed. The abstracts were scored by the Scientific Programme Committee and accepted work were contacted May 15, 2015. Accepted abstracts were awarded either short oral presentations or as a poster.

The submission categories:

Clinical outcome measurements
Epidemiology
Family supports/interventions
Functional outcome measurements
Legal: litigation issues
Legal: criminal justice
Life-long issues
Mild brain injury
Non-accidental injury
Non-traumatic brain injury
Prevention
Rehabilitation: cognitive
Rehabilitation: educational
Rehabilitation: medical
Rehabilitation: social and behavioural
Sports concussion
Transitions

Click here for the Conference Abstracts.
To view the current programme, click here.

ORAL PRESENTERS: Click here for more information associated with when your abstract will be presented.

POSTER PRESENTERS: Click here for frequently asked questions for poster presentations.

VISA LETTERS: To obtain a visa letter, please click here, and fill out the form requesting a visa letter.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Allied health professionals
Clinicians
Educators
Legal professionals
Neuropsychologists
Physicians
Therapists

REGISTRATION

Conference registration is now open! You can only register to attend the pre-conference and attend the social event. The conference registration is now closed. To register for the remaining events, click here. Prices displayed are in US Dollars and charges will be automatically converted to dollars by your credit card company. Please note that the registration system allows you to enter multiple registrants if desired.

Meeting Fees/Rates:

Trainee, through September 1: $465 USD
Member, through September 1: $555 USD
Non Member, through September 1: $595 USD
Pre-Conference: $120 USD
Social Event: $80 USD

Note: You can no longer register for the general conference due to the large demand for the conference. You will only be allowed to register for the Pre-Conference and Social Event. For any questions, please contact congress@internationalbrain.org.

Invoices: If you require an invoice, please register on-line and an invoice will be generated upon checkout. You will be able to access and print the invoice. All invoices are in US Dollars. Please note that we are unable to generate invoices in other currencies.

Cancellation Policy: All requests for cancellation must be received in writing to the attention of Colleen LoGrande via email at clogrande@internationalbrain.org, or by letter at PO Box 1804, Alexandria, VA 22313, or by fax at (703) 960-6603 no later than 30 days prior to the start of the conference. All requests for cancellation will incur a $100 cancellation fee.

Visa Letter: To obtain a visa letter, please click here, and fill out the form requesting a visa letter.

CONFERENCE FORMAT

ABOUT THE VENUE & ACCOMMODATIONS

The conference will take place at the Crowne Plaza Hotel located directly on the lively Liverpool waterfront. Liverpool, a city rich in culture and history, was recently named a UNESCO world heritage site. Museums, Beatles tours, restaurants, live music, and shopping are all within an easy walk of the conference venue.

Rooms may be reserved at the rate of £115 per night. Make your reservation as soon as possible. Please note that the room block is limited.

To reserve a room online, click here. To reserve a room by phone, please call the Crowne Plaza Hotel at 0151 243 80800151 243 8080. Please provide the code "IPB" and state that you are attending the Paediatric Conference.

As of June 4, 2015, Friday night is fully booked at the conference rate. When booking your hotel stay, please do not select Friday night as part of your selection because it will tell you no hotel rooms are available. If you are needing to stay at the hotel on Friday evening, please contact Becky at groups@cpliverpool.com directly and she will be able to assist you in reserving a Friday evening room at the best flexible rate.

Click here to view additional accommodation options in the area. You will need to input your check in and check out dates to view the options.

IPBIS SOCIAL EVENT

Liverpool is home to John, Paul, Ringo and George! Enjoy a live performance of the music of the best known musicians in the world with your colleagues. Entertainment, buffet, and drinks are included. It will be a night to remember with the Fab Four! An additional fee is required to participate in this event. The Social Event will take place on Thursday, 17 September, 2015 starting at 19.30 (7:30pm). To register, click here.

GUIDELINE DEVELOPMENT

To raise awareness about the magnitude, risk factors and impact of ABI globally.
To draw attention to the preventability of brain injuries in children and present what is known about the effectiveness of intervention strategies.
To make recommendations that can be implemented by all countries to effectively reduce ABI in children and adolescents.

ABOUT IPBIS & IBIA

JANE GILLETT AWARD

In order to honor and always remember this outstanding woman and to stimulate others to provide services using her philosophies, the Board of Directors of the International Paediatric Brain Injury Society, in cooperation with Gluckstein Personal Injury Lawyers, created the Dr. Jane Gillett Award.

To learn more about the award and Dr. Jane Gillett, click here.

PLANNING COMMITTEE

The Planning Committee for the First International Conference on Paediatric Brain Injury is:

Catherine Aaro Jonsson
Clinical Neuropsychologist
Ostersund Hospital
Sweden

Vicki Anderson
Theme Director, Critical Care & Neurosciences Research
Murdoch Children’s Reasearch Institute
Australia

Richard Appleton
Consultant Paediatric Neurologist
Alder Hey Children’s Hospital
United Kingdom

David Arciniegas
Professor and Neuropsychiatrist
Baylor College of Medicine & TIRR Memorial Hermann
United States

Lucia Braga
Research Director
Sarah Network
Brazil

Katie Byard
Consultant Neuropsychologist
Recolo
United Kingdom

Enrico Castelli
Head of Paediatric Neurorehabilitation
Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital
Italy

Cathy Catroppa
Research Fellow, Child Neuropsychology
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Australia

Carol DeMatteo
Associate Professor, School of Rehabilitation Science
McMasters University
Canada

Roberta DePompei
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
University of Akron
United States

Patrick Donohue
Founder
Sarah Jane Brain Foundation & Academy of Hope
United States

Ingrid Emanuelson
Associate Professor/Child Neurologist
University of Gothenburg
Sweden

Gerry Gioia
Professor, Division of Paediatric Neuropsychology
George Washington School of Medicine
United States

Carol Hawley
Associate Fellow
Warwick Medical School
United Kingdom

Eric Hermans
Director
Brain Project
The Netherlands

Gillian Hotz
Director
kiDZ Neuroscience Center, University of Miami
United States

Ingela Kristiansen
Paediatric Neurologist
Uppsala University Hospital
Sweden

Arend de Kloet
Paediatric Psychologist
Sophia Rehabilitation
The Netherlands

Bryan Kolb
Professor of neuroscience
University of Lethbridge
Canada

Peter de Koning
Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine
Heliomare Rehabilitation Centre
The Netherlands

Mark Linden
Lecturer
Queens University
United Kingdom

Alison Madden
Clinical Psychologist
Canada

Audrey McKinlay
Senior Lecturer
University of Melbourne
Australia

Thomas McMillan
Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology
University of Glasgow
United Kingdom

Peter Patrick
Former Director of Paediatric Neuropsychology
University of Virginia
United States

Jennie Ponsford
Professor of Neuropsychology
Monash University
Australia

George Prigatano
Emeritus Chair of Clinical Neuropsychology
Barrow Neurological Institute
United States

Gerard Ribbers
Professor and
Rijndam Rehabilitation Center
The Netherlands

Peter Rumney
Physician Director
Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital
Canada

Ronald Savage
President Emeritus
Sarah Jane Foundation
United States

Robert Tasker
Professor of Neurology
Harvard Medical School
United States

Anthony Ward
Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine
North Staffordshire NHS Trust,
United Kingdom

David Walker
Professor of Paediatric Oncology
University of Nottingham
United Kingdom

Beth Wicks
Specialist Education Consultant
Private Practice
United Kingdom

Keith Yeates
Professor, Department of Psychology
University of Calgary
Canada

Nathan Zasler
Director
Concussion Care Centre of Virginia
United States

Carol Hawley, PhD, Chair of IPBIS Board
Ronald Savage, EdD, Co-chair of Conference
Beth Wicks, Co-chair of Conference

LOCAL ADVISORY GROUP

The Local Advisory Group for the First International Conference on Paediatric Brain Injury is:

Lynne Carrick-Leary, Business Development Manager, Irwin Mitchell LLP
Sue Davie, Chief Executive, Meningitis Now
Ava Easton, Chief Executive, The Encephalitis Society
Carol Hawley, Chair of IPBIS
Chloe Hayward, Chief Executive, United Kingdom Acquire Brain Injury Forum
Mark Linden, IPBIS board member
Jackie Parker, Managing Director, J S Parker Ltd
Lisa Turan, Chief Executive Officer, Child Brain Injury Trust
Beth Wicks, IPBIS board member

SECRETARIAT

MCC Association Mgt.
5909 Ashby Manor Place
Alexandria, VA 22310
USA
Tel: (+703) 960-6500
Fax: (+703) 960-6603
www.internationalbrain.org
Click here to email us

Chas Haynes
Margaret Roberts
Principals

International Brain Injury Association (IBIA) and International Paediatric Brain Injury Society (IPBIS) would like to thank the following supporters for their support of the International Paediatric Conference on Acquired Brain Injury in Liverpool and IPBIS:

International Neurotrauma Letter

Wed, 25 Jun 2014 12:51:00 -0500

This publication is intended to serve as an international communication tool for physicians, clinicians, researchers, policy makers, advocacy organizations, and consumers interested in neurotrauma. The intention is that the International NeuroTrauma Letter will bring together diverse groups involved with neurotrauma issues to share knowledge, challenge current ideas, encourage research, and spawn legislative innovation.

The International NeuroTrauma Letter is published quarterly by HDI Publishers in Houston, Texas. HDI has a long history of producing quality scientific publications.

To view the current issue of INTL, click here.
To view past issues, click here.

Authors interested in submitting original research to NTL should review the submission guidelines by clicking here.

Recap of Tenth World Congress on Brain Injury

Wed, 25 Jun 2014 12:51:00 -0500

International Brain Injury Association
San Francisco, California, USA
March 19-22, 2014

The International Brain Injury Association’s (IBIA’s) Tenth World Congress on Brain Injury was held March 19-22, in San Francisco, California, USA at the Hyatt Embarcadero. IBIA enjoyed record attendance with over 1,400 delegates present at the meeting. IBIA extends its sincere thanks to the meeting President, David Arciniegas, MD, and his National Scientific Planning Committee, as well as the International Scientific Planning Committee chaired by Nathan Zasler, MD. There was an excellent variety of topics, various learning formats and attendees and speakers from well over 40 countries. The Congress had multiple tracks including basic science, pediatric and adult brain injury and attracted both senior clinicians and researchers as well as more junior professionals including ones still in training. Lectures, workshops, oral papers, poster sessions, and exhibits all allowed for myriad ways to learn about new developments in the field.

The Pre-Congress Workshops covered a myriad number of diverse topics, including: a discussion on concussions in sports by Michael McCrea; Clinical Management of Disorders of Consciousness: Toward an International Consensus by Joe Giacino and John Whyte; Neuromodulation by Ross Zafonte; Neuropsychiatry of TBI by Jonathan Silver and David Arciniegas; IPBIS: Pediatric/Adolescent Rehabilitation Using Neurotechnology by Carol Hawley; Evidence-based Virtual Rehabilitation after Acquired Brain Injury by Enrique Noe Sebastian and Roberto Rodriguez; and Post-Traumatic Headache by Nathan Zasler.

Workshops and symposium topics covered at this seminal meeting included: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy: State of the Science ; Impulsive and Aggressive Behaviors after Traumatic Brain Injury: Advances in Evaluation and Treatment; Measuring Consciousness in Severe Brain Injury Using Neuroimaging - Moving from Bench to Bedside; Outcome after Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Genes, Biomechanics, and Injury Context; Initial Findings and Future Directions of TBI Practice Based Evidence Study; Brain Injury Rehabilitation after the Hospital; Critical Military Programs and Research; A Neuro-systemic Approach to Long-term Management of Persons with ABI and Their Relatives; Supporting Children/Adolescents with ABI in Home, School and Community; A Multidisciplinary Approach to Translating Brain Injury Science Into Practice; Traumatic Brain Injury Model System Research Findings; and Advances in Multimodal Assessment of Post-Coma Sleep Disorders.

Some of the cutting edge speakers at this seminal meeting included:John Whyte (A Phased Developmental Approach to Neurorehabilitation Research: The Science of Knowledge Building), Donald Stein (The Science of Knowledge: Problems and Prospects of Translational), Adrian Owen (New Approaches to Assessing Cognition after Serious Brain Injury), Vicki Anderson (Can Advances in E-health Improve Assessment, Intervention, and Outcomes for Children with TBI and their Families?), Jennie Ponsford (It’s Not Only the Injury that Matters, but also the Kind of Head).

IBIA would like to congratulate its award winners; they are:

Olivia Gosseries
Young Investigator Award for Excellence in Brain Injury Research by an Individual in Training

Kristen Dams-O’Connor
Early Career Award for Important Contributions to the Field of Brain Injury Science

Donald G. Stein
Jennett Plum Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to the Field of Brain Injury

Marilyn Price Spivack
Lifetime Achievement Award

Henry S. Stonnington Award for Best Article in IBIA’s official journal, Brain Injury

1st place
Mikhail Saltychev, Merja Eskola, Olli Tenovuo, Katri Laimi
Return to work after traumatic brain injury: Systematic review
Brain Injury Dec 2013, Vol. 27, No. 13-14: 1516–1527.

2nd place
Aurore Thibaut, Camille Chatelle, Erik Ziegler, Marie-Aurélie Bruno, Steven Laureys, Olivia Gosseries Spasticity after stroke: Physiology, assessment and treatment
Brain Injury Sep 2013, Vol. 27, No. 10: 1093–1105

The IBIA World Congress Gala was held at Sens restaurant and had lots of surprises for those in attendance. IBIA celebrated Dr. Zasler’s nearly 10 years of service as chairperson of the organization, as well as an end to a very successful conference with great food, music and camaraderie.

IBIA would like to thank all its supporters, exhibitors, attendees, abstract submittees, and speakers for making the 2014 Tenth World Congress such a success. IBIA looks forward to seeing you in 2016 at the Hague in the Netherlands.

To view the on-site program of 2014 Tenth World Congress on Brain Injury, click here.

2nd World Heart and Brain Conference

Mon, 07 Jan 2019 08:20:18 -0600

Second Annual Miami Brain Symposium

Tue, 25 Sep 2018 11:36:21 -0500

Seventh Annual Miami Neuro Symposium, including the Sixth Annual Miami Neuro Nursing Symposium

Tue, 25 Sep 2018 11:34:13 -0500

Concussion Symposium for Lawyers, Insurers, Judges, and Clinicians

Fri, 14 Sep 2018 10:53:37 -0500

10th International Symposium on Neuroprotection and Neurorepair

Wed, 22 Aug 2018 16:47:19 -0500

Innovations in Balance, Mobility and Fitness: The Link to Clinical Practice

Wed, 22 Aug 2018 16:44:27 -0500

Sensory Rehabilitation following Stroke: Neuroscience Foundations, New Evidence and Application to Clinical Practice

Wed, 22 Aug 2018 16:42:41 -0500

13th International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine World Congress

Fri, 20 Jul 2018 13:25:29 -0500

9-13: ,
June 9 – 13, Kobe, Japan. For more information,
visit .

AOTA Annual Conference & Expo

Fri, 20 Jul 2018 13:21:59 -0500

Toronto ABI Network Conference

Fri, 20 Jul 2018 13:17:45 -0500

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INTL 38

A Quarterly E-Publication of the International Brain Injury Association

Announcement of the Editors

In This Issue

Open Access Articles

Publications

Editor Biographies

Brain Injury e-Toc Alert

INTL, Issue 37

A Quarterly E-Publication of the International Brain Injury Association

In This Issue

Publications: Advances in Brain Injury

Brain Injury e-Toc Alert

INTL, Issue 36

A Quarterly E-Publication of the International Brain Injury Association

In This Issue

New Publications: Advances in Brain Injury

Industry News

Brain Injury e-Toc Alert

The First International Conference on Paediatric Acquired Brain Injury

Crowne Plaza HotelLiverpool, United Kingdom16-18 September, 2015

About the Conference

Educational Objectives

Call for Abstracts

Who Should Attend?

Registration

Conference Format

About the Venue/Accommodation

Conference Reception

Guideline Development

About IPBIS & IBIA

Planning Committee

Secretariat

ELEVENTH WORLD CONGRESS ON BRAIN INJURY, MARCH 2 - 5, 2016

WELCOME!

ABSTRACTS

CONGRESS OVERVIEW

PROGRAM

PROGRAM & SYMPOSIUM FACULTY

AWARDS

CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION (CME) and CEU's

SOCIAL MEDIA

SOCIAL PROGRAM & TOURS

CONGRESS LOCATION AND HOTEL

ENDORSING ORGANIZATIONS

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

EXHIBIT AND SUPPORT PROSPECTUS

SECRETARIAT

Open Access Articles from "Brain Injury"

Patterns and Predictors of follow-up in patients with mild traumatic brain injury

Investigation of blast-induced traumatic brain injury

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Children, Poverty, and Acquired Brain Injury: In Search of Best Neurorehabilitation and Educational Practices

Charles J. Durgin, MS, MSEd

INTL Issue 35

A Quarterly E-Publication of the International Brain Injury Association

Brain Injury e-Toc Alert

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SPASTICITY COURSE SUPPORT

Securing CME/CEU Credits for the 10th World Congress on Brain Injury

The Robert D. Voogt NABIS Founders Award Recipient Announced

Third International Conference on Paediatric Acquired Brain Injury

EVENT CONCLUDED. THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING!

MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR IPBIS 2020 INNEW YORK CITY

Belfast, Northern Ireland26-28 September, 2018

View the Preliminary Program Here!

For more details about the Preconference & Symposia Sessions click here!

TABLE OF CONTENTS

OVERVIEW

GUIDANCE FOR THE POST-DISCHARGE REHABILITATION OF CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG ADULTS WITH ACQUIRED BRAIN INJURY – ‘TOOLBOX’ LAUNCHED IN BELFAST AT THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PAEDIATRIC BRAIN INJURY

ABSTRACT AND PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS

Click here to view the Preliminary Programme

EDUCATION OBJECTIVES

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

EXHIBITS & SUPPORT

REGISTRATION

The First International Conference on
Paediatric Acquired Brain Injury

Crowne Plaza Hotel
Liverpool, United Kingdom
16-18 September, 2015

MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR IPBIS 2020 IN

NEW YORK CITY

Belfast, Northern Ireland
26-28 September, 2018

David B. Arciniegas, MD
May 29, 2015

International Brain Injury Association
San Francisco, California, USA
March 19-22, 2014