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The Agenda (Click Here for Pre-Conference Workshops)

Thursday, June 3, 2010 

8:15 to  9:00 AM Registration/Exhibits and Continental Breakfast
 
9:00 to  9:10 AM Welcome and Introductions
   
9:10 to 10:25 AM Mitchell Rosenthal Memorial Lecture~  Advances in Neuroimaging:  Implications for Rehabilitation

Speaker:  John DeLuca, Ph.D., ABPP

   
10:25 to 10:40 AM Break/Exhibits
   
10:45 to 12:00 PM

Breakout Sessions

  Session A:  Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex After Brain Injury, But Were Afraid to Ask

Speakers:  Juan Carlos Arango-Lasprilla, Ph.D. and Caron Gan, RN, MScN, AAMFT

  Session B:  Cognitive Technology and Cognitive Rehabilitation

Speaker:  Rick Parente, Ph.D.

  Session C:  Spirituality in Families After Brain Injury:  How Does God Play a Role?

Speaker:  Taryn M. Stejskal, Ph.D., LMFT

   
12:00 to 1:10 PM Networking Lunch (Lunch will be Provided)
   
1:15 to  2:30 PM

Breakout Sessions

  Session A:  TBI:  Cognitive Consequences, Emotional Effects and Treatment Techniques

Speakers:  Jeffrey A. Wilken, Ph.D. and Cynthia L. Sullivan, Ph.D.

  Session B:  Evaluating and Treating Fatigue

Speaker:  John DeLuca, Ph.D., ABPP

  Session C:  7 Habits of Highly Effective Clinicians~  Principles of Family Intervention

Speaker:  Caron Gan, RN, MScN, AAMFT

   
2:30 to  2:55 PM Break/Exhibits
   
3:00 to  4:45 PM

Breakout Sessions

  Session A:  Pediatric Neuropsychological Assessment

Speaker:  Nancy H. Hsu, Psy.D.

  Session B:  DON'T "DON'T" TM ~  Understanding Almost Everybody's Behavior After Brain Injury

Speaker:  Harvey E. Jacobs, Ph.D.

  Session C:  Ideas for Enhancing Dating and Established Relationships Following Brain Injury

Speaker:  Janet P. Niemeier, Ph.D., ABPP-RP

   
4:45 to  6:45 PM Reception/Exhibits

Friday, June 4, 2010 

8:00 to  8:30 AM Registration/Exhibits and Continental Breakfast
 
8:30 to  8:40 AM Welcome and Announcements
   
8:40 to  9:40 AM Keynote Lecture~  Time with the Temporal Lobe

Speaker:  Greg Goldberg, Hon B.A., B.Ed 

9:40 to 10:40 AM Keynote Lecture~  Mild TBI:  Sports and Combat Related Blast Injury

Speaker:  Jeff Barth, Ph.D., ABPP-CN

   
10:40 to 11:00 AM Break/Exhibitors' Raffle/Food
   
11:00 to 12:15 PM

Breakout Sessions

  Session A:  How Relationships Fail and How to Help

Speakers:  Jeff Kreutzer, Ph.D., ABPP, FACRM

  Session B:  Connecting with Your Audience:  How the Brain Injury Community Can Use Social Media

Speakers:  Victoria Youcha, Ed.D. and Brian King, B.S.

  Session C:  Getting Back To Fun 

Speakers:   Brian McCarthy, CBIS and Sandi Dallhoff, CTRS

   
12:15 to 1:30 PM Lunch (on own)
   
1:30 to  3:00 PM

Breakout Sessions

  Session A:  Developing and Operating Permanent Supportive Housing

Speakers:  Allison Bogdanovic, MURP, Kristin Yavorsky, MSW and Stephanie L. Arnold, CBIS

  Session B:  Health Reform and the Behavioral Complications of Brain Injury

Speaker:  Paul F. Aravich, Ph.D.

  Session C:  Common Ground:  Statewide Solution for Serving Veterans with a Brain Injury and Family Members

Speaker:  CAPT Catherine A. Wilson, NC, USN, RET 

   
3:00 PM Conference Ends