International speakers address the future of rehabilitation

International speakers address the future of rehabilitation medicine at the AFRM/NZRA Combined Rehabilitation Meeting 2015

12 October 2015

Tomorrow leading international and Australasian rehabilitation experts will share the latest research and innovations in rehabilitation medicine at the Australasian Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine and New Zealand Rehabilitation Association (AFRM/NZRA) Combined Rehabilitation Meeting in Wellington.

The meeting ‘Building an Enabling Society’ will be held at the InterContinental Hotel, Wellington, betweenTuesday, 13 and Saturday, 17 October 2015.

Highlights of the program include:

• rehabilitation in the context of natural disasters
• innovations in stroke rehabilitation, including robotics and virtual reality
• reconsidering rehabilitation from a Māori perspective
• cross-cultural considerations for pain management in Australasia
• enabling a good life through contemporary disability support
• using rehabilitation to reduce societal disability

Prominent speakers include:

• Dr Barbara Gibson (US), Chair of the Bloorview Children’s Hospital Foundation, Canada’s largest children’s rehabilitation hospital
• Professor Derek Wade (UK), who has been the editor of Clinical Rehabilitation since 1994, writing articles for over 35 years and producing over 200 peer reviewed articles
• Mr Paul Gibson (NZ), New Zealand Disability Rights Commissioner and President of the New Zealand Disabled Person’s Assembly
• Distinguished Professor Richard Faull (NZ), Director of the Centre for Brain Research at the University of Auckland
• Dr Hinemoa Elder (NZ), a Professorial Fellow in Indigenous Research who has developed theory for young Maori with traumatic brain injury
• Dr Martin Sullivan (NZ), who developed the first postgraduate program in Disability Studies in New Zealand.

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