UK National Veteran Brain Health Symposium

The event unites veterans, academics, clinicians, charities, and advocates in a shared effort to improve veteran brain health.

The symposium will bring together veterans, academics, clinicians, charities, and advocates in a shared effort to advance discussion on existing and emerging research relating to brain health within the veteran community. The programme will feature a combination of presentations and panel sessions designed to highlight current challenges, explore potential solutions, and identify approaches to delivering positive change for veterans.

Programme:
Session 1: Understanding the problem
- Presentation: Concussion, Sub-Concussion and PTSD: Definitions and Key Differences
- Panel Session: Lived experience of Brain Injury
- Panel Session: Comparing Brain Injury in Sport and the Military
- Exhibition Session: Research, Industry and Charity

Session 2: Developing solutions
- Presentation: Cutting-Edge Brain Injury Research
- Flash presentations: Highlights from Across Brain Injury Research
- Panel Session: The Future of Brain Health – Promising Techniques

Session 3: Delivering change
- Keynote presentation
- Presentation: Brain Injury Research – Funding and Policy Landscape
- Panel Session: Funding Research and the Delivery of New Treatments
- Panel Session: Policy Changes That Can Make the Biggest Impact

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This event is organised by the University of Nottingham and the University of Birmingham in collaboration with Cerca Magnetics.