UKABIF's 'Time for Change' Summit 9 & 16 November 2020

Virtual Event with Networking, Interactive Sessions, Keynote Presentations

This year UKABIF’s online summit will provide a global view on acquired brain injury and will investigate the impact of COVID on rehabilitation. It will address the future of neurorehabilitation and report on the work of UKABIF and our partners in shaping policy in a range of sectors to improve life for people with brain injuries. We will highlight clinical tools, share developing practice and give delegates the chance to re-connect.


Monday 9th November 2020 - Chaired by Dr Andrew Bateman, UKABIF Chair

• Brain Injury and Rehab: The International Picture – A discussion between Dr Leighton Chan, Co-Editor-in-Chief, Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; Chief, Rehabilitation Medicine Dept Clinical Center, Nation Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA and Dr Andrew Bateman, Reader in Rehabilitation, University of Essex; Chair, UKABIF
• The National Rehabilitation Centre - Professor Mark Lewis, School of Sport, Exercise & Health Sciences, Loughborough University 
• Assessing Mild Brain Injury - Ms Catherine McMahon, Consultant Neurosurgeon, The Walton Centre 
• COVID Shorts 

- Telerehab during COVID - UCL and SameYou

- Flexibility in the Independent Sector

- Rehab and COVID - Picking up the Pieces and Preparing for the Second Wave Dr Margaret Phillips, Consultant in Rehabilitation Medicine, University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Trust

Monday 16th November 2020 - Chaired by James Piercy, Science Communicator, Trainer and Public Engagement Consultant; UKABIF Trustee

• Chris Bryant, MP and Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Acquired Brain Injury
• Public Health Approaches to Acquired Brain Injury and Justice - Stan Gilmour Superintendent Head of Violence Reduction Unit, Thames Valley Police
• Childhood Brain Injury: Why Schools are the Missing Link in the Rehab Journey - Gill Robinson OBE, Education Adviser, SEND Consultancy
• ABI and Domestic Abuse: Working Together to Create Positive Change - Jocelyn Gaynor, Head of Foundation, The Disabilities Trust
• Sports Concussion Panel Discussion 

Additional Sessions:

• Lightning Poster Pitches 
• UKABIF Awards - Film, Innovation, Public Engagement, Inspiration (kindly sponsored by Cygnet Healthcare)

Book your place here https://bit.ly/3nNFW3Y (UKABIF members go free!) 

Our exhibitors include: 

Elysium Healthcare, Recolo, Voyage Care, Richardson Care, Bolt Burdon Kemp, Brain Injury Support, The Children’s Trust, High View, Oakleaf, Prioy, Exemplar, Thompsons Solicitors 

Kindly Sponsored by Cygnet Healthcare, Irwin Mitchell Solicitors, Leigh Day and Neuro ProActive 

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