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Green Event

The conference has received the following certificates in recognition of their contribution to Carbon Neutral and Green Power.





Featured Speakers

Associate Professor Roslyn Boyd

Associate Professor Roslyn BoydRoslyn Boyd is a physiotherapist with a background in neuroscience, biomechanics and rehabilitation. She is recognised internationally for her clinical trials of Botulinum toxin A (for hip displacement, upper limb rehabilitation), randomised trials of upper limb neurorehabilitation children with congenital hemiplegia and developmental care at home for infants born preterm. The current focus of Roslyn's research is examining the relationship between early motor development and brain structure and function, the nature of the white matter injury, the response to novel rehabilitation and outcomes of population based cohorts of children with cerebral palsy.

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Associate Professor Eve Blair

Associate Professor Eve BlairEve Blair, an epidemiologist of 26 years experience, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Child Health Research, University of Western Australia , at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research. She leads the Cerebral Palsy (CP) Studies team that maintains the WA CP Register and conducts research associated with CP: (i) elucidating aetiological paths to CP with the aim of identifying effective and acceptable points for interruption and (ii) evaluating management strategies for persons with CP. She has also published concerning data quality and epidemiological methods, particularly as they apply to the small heterogeneous patient groups met with in the study of CP, and the logical application of epidemiological evidence. She is the editor responsible for CP for the Cochrane Review Group pertaining to Movement Disorders.

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Key Dates

 

Call for Abstracts
NOW CLOSED
Notice of Acceptances
12 September 2008
Speaker Acceptance  
10 December 2008
Registration Opens
10 September 2008
Pre-Conference Workshops
14 - 17 February 2009
Conference
18 – 21 February 2009
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Hosting Institution

Cerebral Palsy Institute

Premier Sponsor

Allergan

Silver Sponsor

Sponsor

 

Crebral Palsy Foundation