Sunday Conference Sessions
WELCOME & SUNDAY OPENING KEYNOTE
“Hope in Song: Music in Recovery Following Brain Injury”
Speaker: Cristabelle Braden
SESSION #1
“Advocacy, Awareness, Self-Efficacy—Our Community Needs YOU”
Speaker: Kevin McDonald
SESSION #2
“Using the Life Care Planning Process to Enhance Outcomes
for the Traumatic Brain Injury Client”
Speaker: Debra Weiner Katz
SESSION #3
“Finding Your Wings! Air Travel after a Brain Injury”
Speakers: Lori Moyer-Wolfe and Laura VanArsdale
SESSION #4
“Neurological Rehabilitation: An Evidence-Based Clinical Model of Care”
Speaker: Dr. Gordon Horn
WELCOME & SUNDAY KEYNOTE
“Value-Based Payments and How to Prepare Your Organization”
Speakers: Padraig Tangney and Dr. Drew Nagele
Monday Conference Sessions
WELCOME & MONDAY OPENING KEYNOTE
“Understanding the Effect of Bias in Equitable and Client-Centered Care in 21st Century Healthcare”
Speaker: Dr. Lydia Navarro-Walker
SESSION #5
“Survivor Panel: Traveling Hopefully—The Long-Term Picture”
Speakers: Dr. Ann Marie McLaughlin
SESSION #6
“Recognizing Unconscious Bias, Micro-Aggressions, Micro-Insults, and Micro-Assaults in the Delivery of Healthcare Services”
Speaker: Dr. Lydia Navarro-Walker
SESSION #7
“Research Update: What We Have Learned from the
Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems”
Speaker: Dr. Amanda Rabinowitz
SESSION #8
“The Intersection of Opioid Abuse and Brain Injury and
Substance Misuse: Acquired Brain Injury and the Opioid Crisis”
Speaker: Dr. Drew Nagele & Dr. Madeline DiPasquale
SESSION #9
“A Child’s View of a Parent’s TBI”
Speakers: Rebecca Crambert & Children — Abigail, Albert, Adrianna, and Alias Reiter
SESSION #10
Not Just a Headache—Pathophysiology and Latest Treatments for Headache Disorders
Speakers: Dr. Courtney White
Tuesday Conference Sessions
TUESDAY WELCOME & OPENING KEYNOTE
"Optimizing Sleep after Brain Injury: Problems, Implications and Treatment Options”
Speakers: Dr. Miriam Segal, Dr. Thomas Watanabe & Dr. Max Shmidheiser
SESSION #11
“The Neuroscience of Ethical Decision-Making: Translating the Science of Morality in Daily Practice”
Speakers: Dr. Max Shmidheiser
SESSION #12
“Stroke Forward: How to Become Your Own Healthcare Advocate…One Step at a Time”
Speaker: Marcia Moran
SESSION #13
“A Journey of Hope: Connecting Past, Present & Future Cognitive Therapeutic Modalities for Brain Injury—A Case Study”
Speakers: Erica Devery, Krista Compas & Janelle Simonian
TUESDAY PLENARY SESSION
“Modifiable Risk Factors after TBI for the Long-Term Prevention of Cognitive Decline”
Speaker: Dr. Randel Swanson