2-4 December 2008 Harrogate International
Centre/Harrogate/UK
Preliminary programme
Tuesday
2 December 2008
12.00 – 17.00
Registration
Training day*
*Registration to the conference is mandatory to attend any free training
session on Tuesday 2 December
13.00 – 17.00
BASP – British Association of Stroke
Physicians
training session
Auditorium
Chair:
Dr Ronald MacWalter (Chair of BASP Training and Education Committee)
Management of spasticity
Dr Ruth Kent (Consultant
in Rehabilitation Medicine, Wakefield)
Non neurological variables and mortality of acute stroke
Dr Jagdish Sharma
Approaches to stroke recurrence whilst on the ‘best secondary
prevention’
Professor Peter Rothwell
(Professor of Neurology, Oxford)
Thrombolysis – what to do if things don’t work to plan
Dr Keith Muir (Senior
Lecturer in Neurology, Glasgow)
Panel discussion
13.00 – 17.00
NSNF - National Stroke Nursing Forum
training session
Queens Suite
in collaboration with NHS Stroke Improvement Programme
Chair:
Dawn Good
Developing your acute stroke service
Making a case
Setting up a service from an urban and a rural perspective
Making it work
details to be confirmed
13.00 – 17.00
Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation
training session
Hall D
Chair:
Professor Marion Walker (Professor in Stroke Rehabilitation,
Nottingham)
Where is the proof? Evidence and opinion in
stroke rehabilitation
Professor Peter Langhorne
(Professor of Stroke Care, Glasgow)
The new Stroke Rehabilitation Clinical Guidelines
tbc
‘What would you do?’ Applying evidence to daily practice
Professor Anne Forster (Professor
of Stroke Rehabilitation, Bradford)
‘What’s new?’ Multidisciplinary presentations relevant to
rehabilitation
Multiprofessional – speakers tbc
‘I’ve got an idea!’ An overview of the stroke rehabilitation
research community
Professor Caroline Watkins
(Professor of Stroke and Older People’s Care,
Preston)
‘Where next?’ What are the key topics that
matter to the audience in practice and research
Professor Marion Walker
(Professor in Stroke
Rehabilitation, Nottingham)
17.00 –
18.00
Annual General Meeting: British Association of Stroke Physicians
Auditorium
17.00 –
18.00
Annual General Meeting: National Stroke Nursing Forum
Queens Suite
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Preliminary programme
Wednesday 3 December 2008
07.30 – 17.00
Registration
08.00 – 08.50
NSNF - National Stroke Nursing Forum
breakfast meeting
Hall D
Chair: Professor Caroline Watkins
(Professor
of Stroke and Older People’s Care, Preston)
Post stroke faecal incontinence
Causes and consequences
Impact on quality of life for both stroke survivors and carers
Management pathways
Speakers:
tbc
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Plenary 1
09.00 – 9.10
Welcome
by Dr Anthony Rudd
(Vice Chair, UK
Stroke Forum)
Auditorium
9.10 – 10.45
The National Stroke Strategy for England
- one year on
Chair:
Professor Roger Boyle (National Director for Heart Disease and
Stroke)
Dr Damian Jenkinson (National
Clinical Lead, NHS Stroke Improvement Programme)
Dr Pippa Tyrrell (Consultant
Stroke Physician, Salford)
Joe Korner
(Director of Communications, The
Stroke Association)
Additional speaker to be confirmed
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Exhibition and
posters
10.45 – 11.15
Poster viewing session 1
Kings Suite
10.45 – 11.15
Exhibition and ideas fair
Hall Q
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Wednesday 3
December 2008
Parallel sessions 1
11.15 – 12.45
Parallel session 1(a): BASP Update on antiplatelet agents and
prevention of stroke
Auditorium
Chair:
Professor Charles Warlow
(Department of Clinical Neurosciences,
Edinburgh)
Recently completed and ongoing trials
Professor Philip Bath (Professor
of Stroke Medicine, Nottingham)
Aspirin non-responsiveness
Professor Peter Rothwell
(Professor of Neurology, Oxford)
Aspirin in primary prevention
Professor Colin Baigent
(Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Oxford)
11.15 – 12.45
Parallel session 1(b): National Stroke Nursing Forum
Queens Suite
Chair:
Professor Caroline Watkins
(Professor of Stroke and Older People’s Care,
Preston)
Post stroke bone health, fractures and falls risk
Causes and consequences, management pathways and the impact on QoL
Dr Liz Warburton (Consultant in
Stroke Medicine, Cambridge)
Julie Windsor (Clinical Nurse
Specialist, Portsmouth)
11.15 – 12.45
Parallel session 1(c): Locked in Syndrome
Hall D
Chair:
tbc
The role of the speech and language
therapist.
Including case studies
Speakers:
tbc
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Exhibition and
posters
12.45 – 14.15
Poster viewing session 2
Kings Suite
12.45 – 14.15
Exhibition and ideas fair
Hall Q
Lunch
Fringe session
13.15 – 14.00
The Stroke Association
Hall D
Working together on community stroke
services: from discharge to long term
care
Joe Korner
(Director of Communications, The
Stroke Association)
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Parallel sessions 2
14.15 – 15.30
Parallel session 2(a): BASP
Free papers
Auditorium
Chair:
Professor Richard White
Speakers:
tbc
14.15 – 15.30
Parallel session 2(b): National Stroke Nursing Forum
Queens Suite
Chair:
Professor Caroline Watkins
(Professor of Stroke and Older
People’s Care, Preston)
Post stroke epilepsy
Causes and
consequences, the impact on QoL and management pathways
Speakers: tbc
14.15 – 15.30
Parallel session 2(c): Psychological and cognitive
consequences of stroke
Hall D
Chair:
Dr Jane Barton (Consultant
Clinical Psychologist, Sheffield)
Post stroke neglect and related issues,
brain and behaviour including amnesia
Dr Sergio Della Sala (Professor
of Human Cognitive Neuroscience,
Edinburgh)
Post stroke personality change
Speaker: tbc
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Exhibition and
posters
15.30 – 16.00
Poster viewing session 3
Kings Suite
15.30 – 16.00
Exhibition and
ideas fair
Hall Q
Tea and coffee
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Plenary 2
The European Perspective
16.00 –
17.15
Chair:
tbc
Auditorium
Raising standards of stroke care
and building on the European Stroke Guidelines
Speaker:
Professor Bo Norrving
(Department of Clinical
Neuroscience, Sweden)
The German audit
Speaker:
tbc
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Preliminary
programme
Thursday 4
December 2008
07.30 – 09.00
Registration
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Plenary 3
The Princess Margaret Memorial Lecture
09.00 – 10.00
Chair: Professor Marion Walker
(Professor in Stroke
Rehabilitation, Nottingham)
Auditorium
Speaker:
tbc
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Exhibition and
posters
10.00 – 10.45
Poster viewing session 4
Kings Suite
10.00 – 10.45
Exhibition and ideas
fair
Hall Q
Tea and coffee
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Parallel sessions 3
10.45 – 12.00
Parallel session 3(a): BASP
Free papers
Auditorium
Chair:
Dr Gillian Mead (Honorary
Consultant, Geriatric Medicine,
Edinburgh)
Speakers:
tbc
10.45 – 12.00
Parallel session 3(b): Revascularising the brain; what is new?
Queens Suite
Chair:
Professor Hugh Markus (Professor
of Neurology, St George’s)
The implications of the GALA trial. Local vs general anaesthesia for
carotid surgery
Professor Charles Warlow (Professor of Medical Neurology,
Edinburgh)
Results of the ten year follow up of the ACST -
Asymptomatic Carotid Surgery Trial
Professor Alison Halliday (Consultant Vascular Surgeon,
St George’s, London)
Mechanical clot removal in acute stroke
Dr Andrew Molyneux (Oxford)
10.45 – 12.00
Parallel session 3(c): Assistive technology:
Hall D
Multidisciplinary approach to improving QoL
Chair:
Dr Nigel Harris
(Head of Clinical Measurement and Medical Imaging
School for Health, Bath)
Functional electrical stimulation. An assistive device and a tool for
re-learning.
The engineers’ perspective
Dr Paul Taylor (Clinical
Engineer, Salisbury District Hospital)
Using technology to support rehabilitation and self management
Dr Gail Mountain
(Occupational Therapist, Sheffield)
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Exhibition and
posters
12.00 – 13.15
Poster viewing session 5
Kings Suite
12.00 – 13.15
Exhibition and ideas fair
Hall Q
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Plenary 4
Vascular cognitive impairment – time for change?
13.15 –
14.45
Chair:
tbc
Auditorium
The National Dementia Strategy
Professor Sube Banerjee
(Professor of Mental Health and Ageing,
Kings
College)
An overview of the importance of
dementia in clinical practice
Professor John O’Brien
(Professor of Old Age Psychiatry,
Newcastle)
Research and the future
Professor Hugh Markus (Professor
of Neurology, St George’s)
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Exhibition and
posters
14.45 – 15.15
Poster viewing session 6
Kings Suite
14.45 – 15.15
Exhibition and ideas fair
Hall Q
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Parallel sessions 4
15.15 – 16.30
Parallel session 4(a): Update on management of acute stroke
Auditorium
Chair:
Dr David Werring (Clinical Senior
Lecture, Institute
of Neurology, UCL)
Sorting out stroke vs not stroke in the acute phase – can we do better?
Professor Peter Sandercock
(Professor of Medical Neurology,
Edinburgh)
Control of physiological factors; new evidence on old chestnuts?
Dr Tom Robinson (Leicester)
Recently completed and ongoing thrombolysis trials
Dr Keith Muir (Senior Lecturer in
Neurology, Glasgow)
15.15 – 16.30
Parallel session 4(b): The management of the foot after stroke
Queens Suite
Chair:
Professor Ann Ashburn (Professor
of Rehabilitation, Southampton)
Helen Lindfield and Richard Sealy, tbc
15.15 – 16.30
Parallel session 4(c): New clinical trials in stroke
Hall D
Chair:
Dr Pippa Tyrrell (Consultant
Stroke Physician, Salford)
Analysis and interpretation of stroke
trials for the clinician
Professor Ian Ford
(Director - Robertson Centre for Biostatistics,
Glasgow)
Botox for spasticity of the upper limb;
results from a randomised controlled trial
Dr Helen Rodgers
(Reader in Stroke Medicine,
Newcastle)
Optimising secondary prevention post stroke
– first results of the STOP stroke study
Dr Judith Redfern
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