The Medical/Research sessions were chosen for their primary focus on medical issuers or research. Other concurrent and poster sessions may also include medical and/or research content.

Friday, October 21, 2005

1:45 - 2:45 pm

Session Code: MR-1
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Reflections On Our Experience With An Early Intervention Approach

Presenter(s): Alice Rose, M Ed - GF Strong Rehab Centre - Vancouver, BC;
Andrei Krassioukov, MD - Division of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation - Vancouver, BC;
Pankaj Dhawan, MD - GF Strong Rehab Centre - Vancouver, BC

Objective(s): Participants will learn about a continuum of care that promotes recovery following a mild traumatic brain injury.  2. Participants will appreciate the importance of a team approach to early intervention in providing education, reassurance, strategies and medical management of persisting post-concussion symptoms.  3. Participants will gain an understanding of the risk factors associated with symptom prolongation requiring a referral to a Physiatrist following a mild traumatic brain injury.

Target Audience:
Service Providers
Survivors
Families
Lawyers
Medical
Research

3:15 - 3:45 pm

Session Code: MR-2
Human Memory: How It Works And How It Fails

Presenter(s): James Schmidt, PhD - Schmidt, Trentadue & Associates - Fort Langley, BC

Objective(s): To provide attendees with an overview of practical aspects of current research on human memory and its disorders.

Target Audience:
Service Providers
Survivors
Families
Lawyers
Medical

3:45 - 4:15 pm

Session Code: MR-3
Achieving Community Integration For Brain-Injured Clients: Measuring Outcomes

Presenter(s): Helen Turner, BScOT - Community Therapists - Vancouver, BC;
Sue Reil, BScOT - Community Therapists - Vancouver, BC

Objective(s): The participant will have the opportunity to contrast and compare 2 researched outcome measures, review outcome data of an existing rehabilitation service and will gain an appreciation of the challenges of an evidence-based approach to community-based rehabilitation programs.

Target Audience:
Service Providers
Fee-payers

4 - 4:30 pm

Session Code: MR-4
Finding Your Way After TBI: Some Strategies May Work Better Than Others.

Presenter(s): Sharon Livingstone, BA - Psycholoy, University of Victoria - Victoria, BC

Objective(s): Participants will gain a greater understanding of the reasons why brain injury survivors tend to get lost while trying to go from one place to another, and how survivors might improve their ability to travel independently in their everyday lives.  The presentation will describe recent research with brain injury survivors and their performance in video-game-like virtual environments.

Target Audience:
Survivors
Families
Research

4:30 - 5 pm

Session Code: MR-5
A Psychometric Analysis Of The Functional Outcome Profile

Presenter(s): John Price, MSc - Department of Psychology, University of Victoria - Victoria, BC

Objective(s): Participants will be introduced to a new measure of brain injury outcome that is comprehensive, user friendly, and psychometrically sound.

Target Audience:
Service Providers
Survivors
Families
Medical
Research

Saturday, October 22, 2005

10:30 - 11:15 am

Session Code: MR-6
Supporting The Caregivers: Meeting The Needs Of Family Caregivers

Presenter(s): Gary Gerber, PhD - West Park Healthcare Centre - Toronto, ON

Objective(s): To move beyond describing caregiver stress and burden following ABI, to identify effective ways to reduce family caregiver stress and burden.

Target Audience:
Families
Research

11:15 am - 12 noon

Session Code: MR-7
Evaluation Of A Brain Injury Rehabilitation Curriculum Provided Through TeleHealth Videoconferencing

Presenter(s): Shaun Gray, MD - Brain Injury Rehabilitation Program, David Thompson Health Region - Ponoka, AB;
Christine Richards, MHSA - Brain Injury Rehabilitation Program, David Thompson Health Region - Ponoka, AB

Objective(s): Participants will; gain information regarding a brain injury education curriculum and the use of a videoconference system as an option for the delivery of Brain Injury education i.e. types of presentations, resources required, advantages & disadvantages;  be provided with information regarding the methods used to evaluate the Brain Injury education sessions delivered via videoconference and;  gain an understanding of the effectiveness of using videoconferencing as a method of delivery for Brain Injury education to service providers.

Target Audience:
Service Providers
Medical
Health Care Administrators and Planners

1:45 - 2:45 pm

Session Code: MR-8
Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Presenter(s): Derryck Smith, MD - Childrens and Womens Hospital - Vancouver, BC

Objective(s): Review of the world literature over the last two years.

Target Audience:
Service Providers
Lawyers
Medical