SMART STROKES 2013 - 9th Australasian Nursing & Allied Health Stroke Conference
Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
Book your flights, apply for leave, call up your Brisbane friends – and get ready for SMART STROKES 2013 – the very best Australasian Nursing and Allied Health Stroke Conference yet!
We have got a great program for you this year... some of our highlights are:
WEDNESDAY, 21 AUGUST 2013
Pre-Conference Workshop by Maggie-Lee Huckabee: Increasing specificity of clinical swallowing assessment
THURSDAY, 22 AUGUST 2013
International Keynote Ian Kneebone: Mood disorders after stroke
Australasian Keynote Ferdi Miteff: Acute stroke treatment – a neurointerventional perspective
Concurrent oral abstract presentations, as well as Symposia sessions:
- Symposium by Matthew Yau: Enabling love + intimacy after stroke
- Acute Stroke Nurses Education Network (ASNEN)
- Symposium by Maggie-Lee Huckabee: The complexities of pharyngeal pathophysiology
- Symposium with Ferdi Miteff: The practicalities of delivering thrombolysis
- Symposium: Practical ways to increase practice
- Symposium: Community – Living well
- Symposium: Maximizing recovery after stroke
FRIDAY, 23 AUGUST 2013
International Keynote Maggie-Lee Huckabee: Cough reflex testing in clinical dysphagia assessment
Australasian Keynote Matthew Yau: Being smart and fulfilled – love, sex and intimacy after stroke
Concurrent oral abstract presentations, as well as Symposia/Workshop sessions:
- Workshop by Ian Kneebone: Fear of falling – psychological management after stroke
- Symposium: Use of technology in stroke
And, traditionally, saving the best till last:
- Consumer Address
- Presentation of best abstracts – new investigator, best implementation, most controversial, best research, and best oral poster
- International Keynote Ian Kneebone: Stepped psychological care after stroke
- Conference wrap up and prizes
ONLINE REGISTRATION WILL OPEN MONDAY, 15 APRIL 2013 – find all details on the SMART STROKES 2013 website www.smartstrokes.com.au.
Scholarship applications are still open until Monday, 25 March 2013.
We look forward to seeing you in Brisbane in August.
Contact
Stephanie Rogers
Event Manager
smartstrokes@theassociationspecialists.com.au
www.smartstrokes.com.au
