NSW Brain Injury Rehabilitation Forum May 2011

 

Programme : Abstracts : Videos

DAY ONE: Thursday 12th May 2011

9.00 -10.15        
Welcome plenary session:
"Where we have come from ... Where are we going to?"
Lecture Theatre 3
Plenary Chair: Or Joseph Gurka, Westmead Hospital, BIRS

Welcome to country: Elder Uncle Greg Simms
Welcome to forum: Kate Needham, Agency for Clinical Innovation
Invited speaker 1: Dr Kath McCarthy, Westmead Hospital, BIRS
Invited speaker 2: Dr Adrienne Epps, Sydney Children's Hospital Randwick
Invited speaker 3: Prof Arthur Shores, Macquarie University

10:45 -12:15
Session 1: Community Participation Outcomes
Lecture Threate 3
Chair: Alex Shelton, Westmead Hospital, BIRS

1. Improving goal setting in the rural BIRPS: a collaborative approach
MARGARET MACPHERSON, New England BIRS

2. Principles of goal design and their use
in a community brain injury rehabilitation team
STUART BROWNE, Royal Rehabilitation Centre Sydney, BIRU.

3. Balance, mobility and community outcomes in a cohort of children with ABI
JAN HANCOCK, Children's Hospital Westmead

4. Innovative treatment of behavioural problems in paediatric brain injury: challenges and opportunities
WENDV MCCONNELL, Hunter New England Paediatric BIRT

5. Educational outcomes for children
with moderate to severe acquired brain injury
GRACE LEO, Children's Hospital Westmead

6. Investigating pretend play development
in pre-schoo/ers with an acquired brain injury
TONI BRANDTMAN, Children's Hos ital Westmead

10.45 - 12.:15
Session 2: Service Delivery
Lecture Theatre 1
Chair: Angie Morrow, Children's Hospital Westmead

1. Think Ahead Program: transition for young people
with acquired brain injury
SIAN ROUTLEV, Sydney Children's Hospital, BIRP

2. Early intervention rehabilitation case management model
JESSICA BARNES, Royal Rehabilitation Centre Sydney

3. Functional retraining in a client with agitated behaviour
after traumatic brain injury
JANE SIMPSON, Westmead Hospital, BIRS

4. To the back of Bourke: delivering brain injury rehabilitation
to remote areas of NSW
VIRGINIA MITSCH, South West BIRS

5. Orthoptic treatment options for visual problem
found in brain injured clients
LIANE WILCOX, Eyetreat, Castle Hill

6. Clinical guideline on wheelchair prescription for
a person with traumatic brain injury or
spinal cord injury - the input and output
LVNDALL ROSS, Mid Western BIRP

1 :00 - 2:15
Session 3: Outcome Measurement
Lecture Theatre 3
Chair: Clayton King, Royal Rehabilitation Centre Sydney

1. Use of the Kings Outcome Scale for childhood head injury
to measure change in outcome
following childhood traumatic brain injury
SIMON PAGET, Children's Hospital Westmead

2. There is more to the cognitive FIM items than meets the eye : analysis of psychometric properties and administration realities
ANNA PFAFF, Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit, Liverpool Hospital

3. An actuarial interpretation of improvements
after traumatic brain injury
DANIEL COOPER, Price Waterhouse Cooper Australia

4. Making sense of MPAI-4 outcome results:
what are the benefits of using keyform charts?
JENNIE BRENTNALL, The University of Sydney

5. Goal attainment following upper-limb Botulinum Toxin-A injections: are we facilitating achievement of client goals?
HANNAH BARDEN, Westmead Hospital

1:00 - 2:15
Session 4: Service Delivery
Lecture Theatre 1
Chair: Grahame Simpson, Liverpool Hospital BIRU

1. Traumatic Brain Injury and mental health:
an e-Iearning resource for clinicians
PAUL BULLEN, Management Alternatives P/L

2. Implementing Smart phone technology
across the NSW BIRP network
EMMA CHARTERS and MEGAN CAMERON, Liverpool Health Service

3. CarerLink carer mentoring programme
RACHEL MERTON, BIA

4. Brain injury rehabilitation in remote areas -
issues for Aboriginal people
VIRGINIA MITSCH, South West BIRS

5. Utilising advocacy as an everyday skill in brain injury rehabilitation
DONNA KING, South West BIRS

2:45 - 4:30
Session 5: Family
Lecture Theatre 3
Chair: Denise Young, Mid Western BIRS

1. Never Give Up!
KATE BOYD

2. Transition from paediatric to adult brain injury services:
a survey of the family's experience
MARIE NAZAR, Children's Hospital Westmead

3. What does the Family Burden of Injury Interview tell us about the burden for the family when a child sustains a brain injury?
HELEN BADGE, Brain Injury Rehabilitation Directorate

4. Family therapeutic groups
ALEX SHELTON, Westmead Hospital, BIRS

5. Building resilience among family members providing support to people with spinal cord injury or traumatic brain injury: introducing a new program
DENISE YOUNG, Mid Western BIRS

6. Building family resilience after traumatic injury: preliminary evaluation results for a new program
GRAHAME SIMPSON, Liverpool Hospital, BIRU

7. The Accelerator Project : how the project will support the community impacted by brain injury
LOIS MITCHELL, The Friendship Foundation

4:30 - 5:00
Closing Plenary Session:
"Where we have come from .... Where we are going to",
Lecture Theatre 3

Plenary Chair: Dr Joseph Gurka, Westmead Hospital, BIRS
Invited speaker: Prof lan Baguley Westmead Hospital, BIRS

Anniversary Dinner
Welcome: Dr Adeline Hodgkinson, Liverpool Hospital BIRU
Invited speaker: Nick Rushworth, Brain Injury Australia

DAY TWO Friday 13th May 2011

9:00 - 12:00
Cognitive rehabilitation
BONNIE CONWAV, Hunter BIS
DANIELLE ROSE, Hunter BIS
LVNDALL Ross, Mid Western BIRS
MELISSA Non, Westmead Hospital, BIRS
Jo MCGREGOR, Westmead Hospital, BIRS
JULlE HENDV, North Coast BIRS
DENISE YOUNG, Mid Western BIRS

1:00 - 3:00
Implementing and evaluating smart phone application technology across the NSW brain injury rehabilitation program (BIRP) network,
EMMA CHARTERS, Liverpool Health Service
MEGAN CAMERON, Liverpool Health Service

1:00 - 4:00
Multidisciplinary spasticity management, Brain Injury Unit Physiotherapy
IAN BAGULEV, Westmead Hospital, BIRS
ANGlE MORROW, Children's Hospital Westmead
HANNAH BARDEN, Westmead Hospital, BIRS
JENNV LEWIS, Westmead Hospital, BIRS

Background

The Agency for Clinical Innovation (ACI) is a board-governed statutory health corporation that reports to the NSW Minister for Health and Director-General of NSW Health. The Brain Injury Rehabilitation Directorate is one of 24 state-wide clinical networks supported by ACI to harness the clinical and practical knowledge of people working in the NSW Brain Injury Rehabilitation Program and consumers accessing care.

The NSW Brain Injury Rehabilitation Program (BIRP) consists of 14 metropolitan and rural services providing specialist brain injury rehabilitation across inpatient transitional and community settings for adults, young people and children following traumatic brain injury.

The 2011 BIRP Forum is being hosted by Westmead Brain Injury Rehabilitation Service, one of three adult services located in the Sydney metropolitan area. Westmead BIRS includes an Inpatient Programme, Outreach Programme, Community Integration Programme and Research Team. Audience:

This event is aimed at doctors, nurses, allied health professionals and managers that work in the BIRP and NSW health services, consumers and interagency partners contributing to improving patient outcomes.

Aims: The program examines state of the art clinical management of brain injury rehabilitation, emphasising Community Participation, BIRP Service Delivery Initiatives, Outcome Measurement, and Working with Family Members.