Thursday, 29th August Smart Strokes Annual Scientific Meeting 2024

9:00 AM - 9:05 AM 

Welcome to Country

9:05 AM - 9:10 AM Saran Chamberlain

Welcome from Survivor of Stroke

9:10 AM - 9:15 AM 

Conference Opening

• What’s the story? The Personal and Professional Power of Storytelling - Sarah Belson

• Remote Stroke: Establishing Stroke Services in Central Australia - Anna Holwell

Q&A with Sarah Belson and Anna Holwell

This workshop will provide an overview of the Australian Stroke Coalition Stroke Unit Certification project, the importance of bona fide stroke unit care, the certification process, lived experience insights and metropolitan and regional stroke unit certification examples.

The workshop will conclude with a 30 minute facilitated session which will provide delegates an opportunity to commence planning for stroke unit certification at your health service.

11:00 AM - 11:12 AM Saran Chamberlain, Lived Experience Stroke & Trauma Researcher and advocate

Lived Experience Impact of Stroke Unit Care

11:12 AM - 11:24 AM A/Professor Andrew Wong, Neurologist & Stroke Physician, Director of Neurology & Stroke, Royal Brisbane & Women’s Hospital

Australian Stroke Coalition Stroke Unit Certification Project – Pilot Results and Future of Certification

11:24 AM - 11:36 AM Leah Pett, Senior Project Officer, Stroke Unit Certification, Stroke Foundation

Certification Preparation and Process

11:36 AM - 11:48 AM Tanya Frost, Stroke Nurse Consultant, Eastern Health | Lauren Arthurson, Stroke Coordinator, Echuca Regional Health

Lessons, Enablers and Barriers at a Metropolitan and Regional Health Service

11:48 AM - 12:00 PM

Questions & Short Break

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM Leah Pett, Hospital Coordinator, Stroke Foundation | Tania Frost, Stroke Clinical Nurse Consultant, Eastern Health | Lauren Arthurson, Stroke Coordinator, Echuca Regional Health

Planning for Certification at Your Health Service – Facilitated Workshop

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM Adrian O'Malley and Liz Lynch

How to engage with people with lived experience of stroke in research and quality improvement initiatives

Why is this important? How to get started. What to do (and what to avoid!). How to keep things on track

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Chairs: Brenda Booth, Adrian O'Malley, Karly Zacharia. Live Presenters: Brooke Parsons, Clive Kempson, Letisha Living. Virtual Presenters: Toni Arfaras, Matthew Berryman

1. Storytelling Sessions - The Stroke Trials CRE Lived Experience Advisory Group presents individual stories of receiving healthcare transition to community, and collaboration in research after stroke.

• What was good, what was not
• Video and live stories from survivors of stroke

2. Facilitated Panel Discussion

Stroke Trials CRE Lived Experience Manager, Karly Zacharia, will facilitate an interactive discussion and Q&A session to explore the lived experience opinion on the gaps in care and research, how engagement can occur and how this can make a difference to the healthcare and research experience.

• Using Experience-Based Co-Design to Transform Experiences of Care: Priorities for the Development of Post-Stroke Aphasia Services - Lisa N Anemaat
• Evaluating the capacity-building modules for researchers and people with lived experience of stroke - Elizabeth A Lynch and Brenda Booth
• Using Lived Experience to Reset ‘RESET‘ - Alyna Turner and Saran Chamberlain
• Measuring Arm and Hand Improvement after Stroke: What Matters Most to Experts with Lived Experience? - Clive Kempson
• Establishment of a Lived Experience Contributor Group for the Young Stroke Service: A Journey in Co-design and Production - Brooke Parsons
• An Empowerment Evaluation to Enhance the Sustainability of Aphasia Camps in Australia - Megan Trebilcock

13:30-13:40 Ashan Weerakkody

Introduction to implementation for ‘on-the-ground’ clinicians

13:40-13:55 Ashan Weerakkody

Implementing Constraint-Induced Movement Therapy in Early Supported Discharge Rehabilitation

13:55-14:13 Erin Godecke

Communication partner training for hospital staff

14:13-14:31 Di Marsden, Amanda Styles, Jed Duff

Inpatient urinary continence assessment, diagnosis, and management

14:31-14:49 Lauren Arthurson

Psychosocial assessment and mood screening post stroke 

14:50-15:00

Panel Q&A

13:30 PM - 13:55 PM Lauren Arthurson

Regional Stroke Care: Bridging Gaps Through Innovation, Collaboration & Building Capacity

14: 00 PM - 14:25 PM Haylee Berrill

Bogged in the Bush

14:30 PM - 14:55 PM Jess Pyman

Bridging Private & Public Stroke Care in a Regional Centre

• Interactive Data Dashboards to Support Hospital Quality Improvement Projects - Elizabeth Gregory
• Measuring Health Impacts of Post-stroke Aphasia Treatments: Does the EQ-5D-3L Measure-up? - Sally Zingelman
• Pilot Phase of the Stroke Unit Certification Program: Characteristics and Performance of Acute Stroke Services Prior to Participation. - Melita Stirling
• NSW Rural Stroke Network: patient care first! - Jaclyn Birnie
• Barriers and Facilitators to the Implementation of Best Practice Management of the Neurologically Impaired Upper Limb   - Belinda Woods
• Innovating excellence in self-management of arm recovery after stroke: Fifteen years in review.  - Kylie Bower

• The Puncture and The Repair - Bruce Simcock

Presenters:

Elizabeth Lynch, Matthew Flinders Research Fellow, Caring Futures Institute, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University

Dominique Cadilhac, Co-Director: Stroke and Ageing Research, School of Clinical Sciences, Monash University

• Predicting Treatment Response to Intensive, Comprehensive Aphasia Treatment - Jade Dignam
• Speech Pathologists' perceptions of providing early aphasia therapy. - Erin Godecke
• “Get as much speech therapy as you possibly can” The perceptions of early intensive aphasia intervention of people with lived experience and carers. - Erin Godecke
• In Patients with Brainstem Strokes, Does Dysphagia Rehabilitation Improve Health Related Outcomes Compared to Usual Care? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis - Julia Gorton