Conference Program – Day One

Monday 28th October 2019

Time	Subject	Speaker
9.00am – 9.05am	Introduction & Housekeeping		Nick Rushworth, Executive Officer Brain Injury Australia – Conference Chair
9.05am-9.10am	Welcome to Country		Uncle Bill Nicholson – Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Elder
9.10am – 9.50am	Consumer Opening Address Life is Short		*Kate Channer*
9.50am – 11.00am	Transport Accident Commission International Keynote Address – Introduction		Liz Cairns, Head of Independence, Transport Accident Commission
	Transport Accident Commission International Keynote Address – Lessons Learned from a Career in Brain Injury Rehabilitation		Professor John Corrigan, Ohio Valley Center for Brain Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation, Editor-in-Chief Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation
11.00am – 11.30am	Morning Tea
11.30am – 12.30pm	KEYNOTE ADDRESS – Cognitive rehabilitation after brain injury – how good is the evidence?		Professor Jennie Ponsford AO, Monash University
12.30pm – 1.30pm	Lunch
1.30pm – 2.30pm	Brain Injury in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Communities
	Improving rehabilitation services for Aboriginal Australians in Western Australia after brain injury		Professor Beth Armstrong, Edith Cowan University
			Professor Juli Coffin, Telethon Kids Institute
	The dilemmas in providing best practice care for Aboriginal people who have sustained a Traumatic Brain Injury in the Northern Territory		Dr. Howard Flavell, Northern Territory
2.30pm – 3.30pm	Helmets – A Crash Course
	Helmet effectiveness in reducing Traumatic Brain Injury: overview of the latest Australian research outcomes		Dr. Raphael Grzebieta, Professor Emeritus Transport and Road Safety Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
			Professor Jake Olivier, Transport and Road Safety Research Centre at UNSW Sydney
	Headgear and injury prevention in collision sports: results from a systematic review		Jennifer Makovec Knight, Sports Concussion Research Group, Monash University
3.30pm – 4.00pm	Afternoon Tea
4.00pm – 4.20pm	KEYNOTE ADDRESS – The Mission for Traumatic Brain Injury		Professor Melinda Fitzgerald, Curtin University
4.20pm – 5.20pm	PANEL DISCUSSION – Neurotrauma Research: Working where head injury ends and brain injury begins
			Facilitator – Professor Roger Chung, Macquarie University, Chairperson Brain Injury Australia
			Professor Melinda Fitzgerald, Curtin University
	The use of erythropoietin (EPO) after severe multi-trauma		Professor Alistair Nichol, University College Dublin, Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Monash University
	Brain tissue oxygen monitoring in Traumatic Brain Injury: An emerging neuromonitoring technique		Professor Andrew Udy, Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Research Centre, Monash University
	Medical support for far-forward military operations: current gaps and challenges in treating haemorrhagic shock and Traumatic Brain Injury, and potential applications for civilian trauma		Professor Geoffrey Dobson, Trauma and Sepsis Research Laboratory, James Cook University
	Adenosine, lidocaine and magnesium fluid therapy reduces secondary injury following Traumatic Brain Injury		Dr. Hayley Letson, Heart, Trauma and Sepsis Research Laboratory, James Cook University
5.20pm	Close of Conference Day One

5:30 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE – DOCUMENTARY, “GOING THE DISTANCE: JOURNEYS OF RECOVERY”

The 7th National Brain Injury Conference is honoured to host the Australian premiere of the award-winning documentary “Going the Distance: Journeys of Recovery” – the stories of four survivors of severe traumatic brain injury (TBI). It features US Marines Corporal Jason Poole, pictured, who sustained catastrophic head injuries from a roadside bomb while serving in Iraq. The documentary was awarded “Most Inspirational Film” at the 2017 Oregon Documentary Film Festival.

Brain Injury Australia is also delighted that the documentary’s three-time Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, David L. Brown, pictured – who’s written and directed over 80 productions and 16 broadcast documentaries on social, nuclear, health, technology, peace and environmental issues – will be attending the Conference to introduce the film. He will also screen an update on the lives of documentary’s four stars. It “will include the high points of their lives,” Brown says, “during the nine years since they were filmed – getting married and having kids, for example. It’s been a thrill to follow their recoveries.” Find out more about “Going the Distance: Journeys of Recovery” and David L. Brown, here www.goingthedistance.info

Emmy Award-winning filmmaker,
David L. Brown

Conference Program – Day Two

Tuesday 29th October 2019

Time	Subject	Speaker
8.30am-9.15am	Introduction		Nick Rushworth, Executive Officer Brain Injury Australia – Conference Chair
8.30am-9.15am	KEYNOTE ADDRESS – Violence following traumatic brain injury: what do we know?		Professor Peter Schofield, University of Newcastle
9.15am-10.30am	PANEL DISCUSSION – Neurobehaviour: saying, doing the first thing that comes into your head. Then not.
			Facilitator – Professor Peter Schofield, University of Newcastle
			Professor John Corrigan, Ohio Valley Center for Brain Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation, Editor-in-Chief Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation
	Developing a guideline for the pharmacological management of neurobehavioural symptoms following Traumatic Brain Injury		Professor Malcolm Hopwood, Ramsay Health Care Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Melbourne
	Reducing impulsive behaviour in repeat-violent offenders (ReINVEST): a double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial using sertraline		Professor Tony Butler, Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney
	‘Challenging behaviour’ – from a partner’s perspective		*Jodie Brown*
	Addressing ‘challenging behaviours’ after Acquired Brain Injury in the community: an overview of the evidence and current research on Positive Behaviour Support		Dr. Kate Gould, Monash-Epworth Rehabilitation Research Centre
	Overcoming the debilitating effect of ‘challenging behaviour’ following brain injury		*Mathew Ward*
	Positive Behaviour Support for people with Acquired Brain Injury in the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS)		*Sue Sloan*
10.30am – 11.00am	Morning Tea
11.00am – 11.45am	Inflicted Traumatic Brain Injury (“Shaken Baby Syndrome”)
			*Madeline Homewood*
	‘Babies break if you shake them’: inflicted head trauma from a forensic paediatrician’s perspective		Dr. Jo Tully, Deputy Director Victorian Forensic Paediatric Medical Service
11.45am – 1.00pm	PANEL DISCUSSION – Concussion/ ‘Mild’ Traumatic Brain Injury
			Facilitator: Natalie Foley, Parent
			Professor John Corrigan, Ohio Valley Center for Brain Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation, Editor-in-Chief Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation
	A sports career derailed		Ethan Cheesewright, 17 year-old ex-Australian Rules footballer
	Concussion recovery in a paediatric population: HeadCheck; Concussion Essentials; and biomarkers (or not) of prolonged symptoms		Professor Vicki Anderson, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute Melbourne
	Concussion in children: the perils and pitfalls of concussion education for children; and return to activity prescription, when is it the right time?		Professor Gary Browne, University of Sydney
	Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) in Australia: the Australian Sports Brain Bank experience		Associate Professor Michael Buckland, University of Sydney
1.00pm – 2.00pm	Lunch
2.00pm – 2.45pm	KEYNOTE ADDRESS – When Love Hurts: Exploring the Intersection of Intimate Partner Violence and Traumatic Brain Injury		Karen Mason, Co-founder of Supporting Survivors of Abuse and Brain Injury through Research (SOAR), former Executive Director of Kelowna Women’s Shelter, Canada
2.00pm – 2.45pm			Professor Paul van Donkelaar, University of British Columbia Canada
2.45pm – 3.30pm	The view from ‘the bench’ – perspectives on people with a brain injury and the judicial system
			The Honorable Judge Eugene M. Hyman, Superior Court of California County of Santa Clara
			Magistrate Pauline Spencer, Victoria
			Associate Professor Molly Townes O’Brien, Australian National University College of Law, Canberra
3.30pm – 4.00pm	Afternoon Tea
4.00pm – 4.30pm	KEYNOTE ADDRESS – Disability, data and employment		Professor Bruce Bonyhady AM, Melbourne Disability Institute University of Melbourne
4.30pm – 5.30pm	PANEL DISCUSSION – Employment for people with an Acquired Brain Injury
			Sammy Daly, Customer Service Manager
			Professor Bruce Bonyhady AM, Melbourne Disability Institute University of Melbourne
	Disability Employment Services, the NDIS Employment Taskforce and people with Acquired Brain Injury		David Best, Senior Policy Officer Disability Employment Australia
	‘Employment CoLab’ – Co-design and pilot of an open employment pathway with people with an Acquired Brain Injury		Dr. Em Bould, Monash University
			Ms Libby Callaway, Monash University
5.30pm	Close of Conference