Allen W. Heinemann, PhD
Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago & Northwestern University, Chicago Illinois, USA

Opening Plenary:  Community Participation From The Perspective Of Multiple Stakeholders: Consumers, Caregivers, Providers, Payers And Policy Makers 
- Friday, October 21, 2005 9 to 10 am - Crystal Ballroom
Panel 1 - Scope of Community Involvement & Consumer Participation in Policy Development - Friday, October 21, 2005 - 10:30 am to 12 noon - Crystal 3

Allen Heinemann, Ph.D. completed his doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology at the University of Kansas with a specialty focus in rehabilitation. He completed an internship at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Illinois Institute of Technology.  Since 1985, he has worked at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago where he directs the Center for Rehabilitation Outcomes Research, a rehabilitation-focused health services research unit. He is also Associate Director of Research at RIC and Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University. He serves on the Coordinating Committee for Northwestern University's Institute for Health Services Research and Policy Studies. His research interests focus on health services research, psychosocial aspects of rehabilitation including substance abuse, and measurement issues in rehabilitation.  He is the author of more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed publications and is the editor of Substance Abuse and Physical Disability published by Haworth Press. He is the recipient of funding by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (RRTC on Measuring Rehabilitation Outcomes and Effectiveness, DRRP on Health Services Research, Switzer Fellowship, Field Initiated Projects, Innovation Award, several RRTC projects), the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, Centers for Disease Control, the Social Security Administration, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the J.M. Foundation, the Paralyzed Veterans of America-Spinal Cord Research Foundation, and the American Occupational Therapy Foundation and Association.  He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 22) and a Diplomat in Rehabilitation Psychology (ABPP). He serves as President of the American Congress of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and the Rehabilitation Psychology division of the American Psychological Association. He serves as a study section member for NIH, on the editorial board of the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, NeuroRehabilitation, International Journal of Rehabilitation and Health, Journal of Outcome Measurement, the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Psychology, and Rehabilitation Counselling Bulletin. He is the recipient of the Division 22 (Rehabilitation Psychology — of the American Psychological Association) Roger Barker Distinguished Career Award.

Dr. Linda J. Carroll, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta Canada

Morning Plenary:  Prognosis For Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Results Of The WHO Collaborating Centre Task Force On Mild Traumatic Brain Injury 
- Saturday, October 22, 2005 - 8:30 to 10 am - Crystal Ballroom

Dr. Linda J. Carroll is an associate professor of epidemiology in the department of public health sciences at the University of Alberta and holds a Health Scholar Award from the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research. She is an adjunct professor at the University of Saskatchewan and an associate scientist at the Alberta Centre for Injury Prevention and Research. Her clinical background is in health psychology and her research focuses on psychological aspects of musculoskeletal disorders, with an emphasis on examining the interface between depression, coping, chronic pain disability and recovery from soft-tissue injuries.
Carroll was a member of the scientific secretariat of the international task force, the WHO Collaborating Centre on Neurotrauma’s Task Force on Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. It recently published a Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine supplement reporting their findings from a systematic review of the world literature on mild traumatic brain injury. She is currently a principal investigator and member of the administrative committee and the scientific secretariat of the Bone and Joint Decade 2000-2010 Task Force on Neck Pain and its Associated Disorders.

Kindness Crew
Victoria, BC Canada
Closing Plenary - Saturday, October 22, 2005 - 3 to 4:30 pm - Crystal Ballroom - SPONSORED BY: Murphy, Battista Lawyers

Their mission - to educate, inspire and mobilize others to commit acts of kindness and community service.
In the summer of 2002 four best friends embarked on a Trans-Canadian tour that took them from their hometown, Victoria BC all the way to St. John’s, Newfoundland. They spent 110 days committing random acts of kindness — and no act was too big or too small! Whether they were helping ranchers herd buffalo or cooking at soup kitchens their goal was to “connect the world through kindness” and encourage others to pay it forward.  In the summer of 2004 they released their first book, “Cool to be Kind” which is now a Canadian bestseller and in June 2005 they launched their second book at Book Expo America in New York. You can bet these guys are going to take the Big Apple by storm. They have inspired roaming packs of do-gooders around the planet. Most recently one of their youth teams visited Thailand to offer Tsunami relief by building schools from the ground up. Their philosophy of everyday EXTREME KINDNESS is spreading like wildfire and has been incorporated into school curriculums in both Canada and the US. They have worked with companies like Columbia Sportswear, SAS and CHIP Hospitality who have internalized their message and made it a part of their corporate culture.