January 23-25, 2023 | Digital Conference
PROGRAM MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 2022
Program times below are in Eastern Standard Time (EST), Central European Time (CET) and Australian Eastern Time (AET)
EST CET AET
06:00 Opening Remarks (10 min)
14:00 20:00
(Tues, Jan 24) Sean Dukelow & Kate Hayward
06:10 Person with Lived Experience with Stroke Talk (10 min)
14:10 20:10
(Tues, Jan 24) Frank & Louise Nieboer
What is the Next Big Thing in Stroke Rehabilitation & Recovery? (90 min)
Each speaker will have 10 mins to share their views.
06:20
14:20 20:20 John Krakauer, Julie Bernhardt, Nick Ward, S. Thomas Carmichael, Sheila Martins
(Tues, Jan 24)
and Numa Dancause
Moderators: Sean Dukelow & Kate Hayward
07:50
15:50 21:50 Break (10 min)
(Tues, Jan 24)
08:00
16:00 22:00 Concurrent Sessions
(Tues, Jan 24)
Role of Adjuvant Therapies in Stroke Adaptive Trial Designs and Efficiency in
Rehabilitation (Clinical Stream) Clinical Trials (Research Stream)
(75 min) (75 min)
Moderator: Heidi Schambra Moderator: Mark Bayley
• Overview of adjuvant therapies
in stroke rehabilitation • Origins of adaptive trial design
Robert Teasell and key learnings from other fields
• Advances in non-invasive Amanda Farrin
brain stimulation in stroke • Opportunities and challenges of
rehabilitation adaptive trial designs in stroke
Christian Grefkes Leonid Churilov
• Innovations in vagal nerve • Current examples of adaptive trials
stimulation in stroke to accelerate stroke recovery
rehabilitation Kate Hayward
Teresa Kimberly
09:15
17:15 23:15 Break (10 min)
(Tues, Jan 24)
09:25
17:25 23:25 Concurrent Sessions
(Tues, Jan 24)
Knowledge Translation Gap (Clinical Young Stroke & Young Stroke Carers
Stream) (75 min) (Clinical Stream) (75 min)
Moderator: Brodie Sakakibara Moderator: Rick Swartz
• Translating research into practice:
• A Stroke Warrior’s Journey
Learnings from FAME and GRASP
Brooke Parsons
Janice Eng
• New Research about Supporting
• Implementing evidence around
Patients and Families across the
physical activity and diet after
Continuum of Care
stroke using a co-designed
Jill Cameron
approach
• Understanding the mechanisms of
Coralie English
young stroke
• Key learnings from implementing
Vincent Thijs
language and cognitive
• Young carers and stroke recovery
interventions
Trudi Cameron
Erin Godecke
00:50 10:50
18:50 Break (30 min)
(Tues, Jan 24) (Tues, Jan 24)
01:20 11:20
19:20 Guided Poster Tours
(Tues, Jan 24) (Tues, Jan 24)
Guided Poster Tour 1 - Guided Poster Tour 2 -
Led by Erin Godecke Led by Tom Carmichael
• It takes a village: Building
Australia’s first dedicated service • Predicting individual treatment
for young adults with stroke response to repetitive transcranial
Karen Borschmann magnetic stimulation (rTMS) for
• Motor inhibition and its motor recovery after stroke:
contribution to recovery of A review and the CanStim
dexterous hand use after stroke perspective
Jeanette Plantin Franziska Hildesheim
• Examining the Link Between • Early versus delayed robot-
Impairments in Visuomotor assisted gait training after stroke:
Adaptation and Motor Control differential effects on lower limb
After Stroke motor impairments? – a pilot
Robert Moore randomized controlled trial
• Reducing Abnormal Muscle Jonas Schröder
Co-activation to Improve Arm • High-Definition Transcranial Direct
Functions in Chronic Stroke Current Stimulation for Upper
Patients using a Wearable Extremity Rehabilitation Post
Myoelectric Interface Stroke: A Pilot Trial in Oklahoma
Abed Khorasani Jordan Williamson
• Assessing the Individualized • White matter correlates of acute
Learning Needs and Priorities of post-stroke dysphagia
Post Stroke Clients and Families Janina Wilmskoetter
Sabrina Celarie
PROGRAM TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2022
Program times below are in Eastern Standard Time (EST), Central European Time (CET) and Australian Eastern Time (AET)
EST CET AET
00:00 Opening Remarks (10 min)
8:00 14:00
(Wed, Jan 25) Sean Dukelow & Kate Hayward
00:10
8:10 14:10 Concurrent Sessions
(Wed, Jan 25)
Stroke Rehabilitation Care Models How to Design a “Control” for
for Low Resource Countries (Clinical Activity in Trials? (Research Stream)
Stream) (75 min) (75 min)
Moderator: Sean Dukelow Moderator: Andrew Demchuk
• Learnings from the stroke
rehabilitation and recovery
• Integrated approach to stroke
roundtable on control
care in low and middle income
interventions
countries
Catherine Lang
Jeyaraj Durai Pandian
• The challenges of designing a
• Developing long term stroke
control intervention in aphasia
care services in Malaysia
trials
Noor Azah Aziz
Caterina Breitenstein
• Stroke management and
• Navigating the control
quality of life from a Nigerian
intervention in preclinical stroke
perspective
recovery studies and relevance
Caleb Gbiri
to clinical trials
Steve Zeiler
01:25
9:25 15:25 Break (10 min)
(Wed, Jan 25)
01:35
9:35 15:35 Concurrent Sessions
(Wed, Jan 25)
Comorbidities & Complications on Predictive Modelling of Stroke
Stroke Recovery (Clinical Stream) Recovery Outcomes (Research
(75 min) Stream) (75 min)
Moderator: Robert Teasell Moderator: Keith Lohse
• Predicting aphasia recovery and
treatment response after stroke
• Visual consequences of stroke
Myzoon Ali
Fiona Rowe
• Using network meta-analysis
• The neurobiology of fatigue
to predict stroke recovery
Anna Kuppuswamy
outcomes
• An overview of small vessel
Griffin Pauli
disease and its impact on stroke
• Big data in stroke: Probabilistic
recovery
modeling of global and cognitive
Eric Smith
outcomes post-stroke
Anna Bonkhoff
02:50
10:50 16:50 Break (10 min)
(Wed, Jan 25)
03:00
11:00 17:00 Guided Poster Tours
(Wed, Jan 25)
Guided Poster Tour 1 (60 min) Guided Poster Tour 2 (60 min)
Moderator: Ada Tang Moderator: Lara Boyd
• How community-based teams
used the Stroke Recovery in • Pre-treatment network
Motion Implementation Planner: modularity is associated with
A field-test study speech improvement following
Jessica Reszel Multi-Modality Aphasia Therapy
• Successful features and types of Trevor Low
mobile applications for stroke • Are self-reported physical
rehabilitation: A systematic activity levels of Spanish stroke
review survivors aligned with WHO
Heather MacNeill recommendations? Preliminary
• Mobile Technology-Based results
Interventions for Stroke Self- Cristina de Diego-Alonso
Management Support: A • Polypharmacy post-stroke:
Scoping Review the relationship with gait,
Alexandra Thompson balance and falls in people
• Are people participating in after discharge from stroke
stroke rehabilitation research rehabilitation
after the COVID-19 pandemic Filip Potempski
more impaired in balance and • Standardized tools for assessing
upper and lower extremity balance and mobility in stroke
motor function? clinical practice guidelines
Yashoda Sharma worldwide: a scoping review
• Self-reported physical activity is Renato Santos
associated with cardiorespiratory • Reshaping interprofessional
fitness but not walking capacity team rounds: An evaluation of
among community-dwelling best practices in stroke care
individuals post-stroke Jennifer Joachimides
Kevin Moncion
04:00
12:00 18:00 Break (10 min)
(Wed, Jan 25)
04:35 Plenary Session: Biomarkers for Precision Stroke Rehabilitation (75 min)
12:35 18:35
(Wed, Jan 25) Moderator: Lara Boyd
• Turning biomarkers into prediction tools for stroke rehabilitation
Winston Byblow
• Utility of TMS & EEG as biomarkers of recovery
Caroline Tscherpel
• Biomarkers of rehabilitation and recovery for aphasia
Cathy Price
08:50
13:50 19:50 Break (10 min)
(Wed, Jan 25)
09:00
14:00 20:00 Concurrent Sessions
(Wed, Jan 25)
Global Challenges of Delivering
Measurement of Outcomes after
Stroke Rehabilitation Care (Clinical
Stroke (Research Stream) (75 min)
Stream) (75 min)
Moderator: Ada Tang
Moderator: Robert Teasell
• Advances in stroke transitional
care and global implications • Measuring motor recovery after
Pam Duncan stroke
• Driving best practice stroke Gert Kwakkel
rehabilitation care in low-to- • Building a core outcome set for
middle income countries aphasia rehabilitation
John Solomon Sarah Wallace
• Changing the reality of acute • Assessment of frailty and
stroke rehabilitation care implications in stroke
globally Terry Quinn
Julie Bernhardt
10:15
15:15 21:15 Break (10 min)
(Wed, Jan 25)
10:25
15:25 21:25 Concurrent Sessions
(Wed, Jan 25)
Innovative Personalized Concurrent; Precision
Rehabilitation Care (Clinical Stream) Neurorehabilitation (Research
(75 min) Stream) (75 min)
Moderator: Geert Verheyden Moderator: Kate Hayward
• Promises and pitfalls of • How Big Data can move the field
telerehabilitation forward
Kate Laver Sook-Lei Liew
• Role of nursing practice in • Using genetics to target stroke
neurorehabilitation recovery
Caroline Watkins Arne Lindgren
• Personalizing community-based • Targeted interventions in the
exercise programs post-stroke field of stroke recovery
Nancy Salbach Steve Cramer
International Stroke Research and Recovery Alliance (ISRRA) – Creating a
11:40 world where global collaboration brings major breakthroughs for people
16:40 22:40
(Wed, Jan 25) living with stroke (Plenary Session) (60 min)
Moderator: Julie Bernhardt
• ISRRA: Why are we here and how are we different?
Julie Bernhardt
• The work of ISRRA – building science and capacity
Nick Ward
• What are the top priorities for collaborative research right now?
Nick Ward
• What are the top implementation targets for action right now?
Marie-Louise Bird
• What would facilitate development of global flagship projects?
Julie Bernhardt
• Building the next generation of stroke recovery & rehabilitation
researchers
Rachel Stockley & Natalie Fini
PROGRAM WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2022
Program times below are in Eastern Standard Time (EST), Central European Time (CET) and Australian Eastern Time (AET)
EST CET AET
3:20 Opening Remarks (10 min)
11:20 17:20
(Thurs, Jan 26) Sean Dukelow & Kate Hayward
3:30
11:30 17:30 Oral Presentations
(Thurs, Jan 26)
Oral Presentations 1 (60 min) Oral Presentations 2 (60 min)
Moderator: Sean Dukelow Moderator: Dale Corbett
• Prevalence of self-reported sleep
• Clinical and neuroimaging
disturbances in Canadian stroke
data predicts proprioceptive
survivors: Cross-sectional analysis
impairments on a robotic arm
of the Canadian Community
position matching task in the
Health Survey
subacute and chronic phases
Matthew Jeffers
post-stroke
• Automated quantification of
Matthew Chilvers
forelimb reaching facilitates
• Effects of repetitive Transcranial
assessment of dose-escalated
Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) on
rehabilitation in rats following
the corticospinal drive to upper
stroke
limb muscles excitability in
Zanna Vanterpool
monkeys after chronic stroke
• Association between pre-
Adan-Ulises Dominguez-Vargas
stroke multimorbidity and late
• Multi modal strategies to enhance
changes in functional outcome
activity levels in the early phase
6 to 12-months post-stroke: a
of stroke recovery
population-based study
Apoorva Shankaranarayana
Matthew Downer
• Acute neurobiological and
• Does language of treatment
neurophysiological effects of
affect recovery from post-stroke
high-intensity aerobic exercise in
aphasia? A retrospective case
stroke survivors with and without
control study.
depression
Michael Palayew
Ewan Williams
• Classification of Functional and
• Identification of knowledge and
Non-functional Arm Use by
information needs of young
Inertial Measurement Units in
people with stroke from eight
Individuals with Upper Limb
different countries
Impairment after Stroke
Marika Demers
Johannes Pohl
04:30 Brag ‘n Steal Plenary Session (60 min)
12:30 18:30
(Thurs, Jan 26) Moderator: Ada Tang
• Individualized Education Assessment of Clients and Families
Sabrina Celarie
• New Health Care Pathways for Post - Stroke Depression and Suicide
Screenings at Transition Points during the Continuum of Care in Stroke
Recovery
Julia Marsh
• Abnormal electrical activity in stroke patients – what causes it, and can it
be fixed?
Jed Meltzer
• Cryoneurolysis for spasticity
Paul Winston
• Better Medicine Together: A Novel Platform for Stroke Research
Collaboration and Funding
Rosalie McDonough
05:30
13:30 19:30 Break (30 min)
(Thurs, Jan 26)
06:00 Concurrent Sessions
14:00 20:00
(Thurs, Jan 26) Moderator: David Copland
Language, Sensory, Psychological or
Exciting New Rehabilitation
Cognition Problems Can Affect How
Interventions (Research Stream)
People Engage in Rehab Programs
(75 min)
(Clinical Stream) (75 min)
Moderator: Dale Corbett
Moderator: David Copland
• The role of sensation in • Innovations in rehabilitation of
rehabilitation and training the upper extremity in chronic
Leeanne Carey stroke
• Aphasia and the challenges Pablo Celnik
associated with rehabilitation • Enhancing physical activity
Alex Leff routines after stroke
• The Impact and Management Sarah Moore
of Cognitive issues in Stroke • Enriched environment models in
Rehabilitation stroke rehabilitation
Gail Eskes Heidi Janssen
7:15
15:15 21:15 Break (10 min)
(Thurs, Jan 26)
7:25 Plenary Session: Medications to Improve Stroke Recovery (75 min)
15:25 21:25
(Thurs, Jan 26) Moderator: Sandra Black
• New horizons in pharmacotherapy to improve stroke recovery
Andrew Clarkson
• Treating fatigue after stroke: the MIDAS trial and beyond
Christopher Levi
• The potential role of dopamine in stroke recovery
Stefan Engelter
08:50 Closing Session (10 min)
16:50 22:50
(Thurs, Jan 26) Sean Dukelow & Kate Hayward
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