Rehabilitation providers often struggle to effectively serve survivors and family members who come from very different cultures and speak different languages. This conference will bring together brain injury rehabilitation experts from different countries and cultures to discuss and share ideas regarding effective assessment, intervention, and research practices. Program faculty include speakers from Asia, Australia, South America, United Kingdom, Spain, Canada, and the United States. A full spectrum of topics relating to neurobehavioral, cognitive, functional, vocational, psychosocial, family, and medical aspects of rehabilitation will be addressed via lectures, workshops, panel presentations, and posters. Sessions will also focus on health care disparities, successfully conducting research with multiethnicpopulations, and meeting the clinical care needs of diverse patient populations.

Abstract submission form and instructions   Abstracts relating to original research, research reviews, conceptual presentations, and descriptions of innovative clinical and service programs are invited. Abstracts must be written in English and received by November 1, 2008. The body of the abstract text must not exceed 300 words. Authors may submit more than one abstract for consideration. Research submissions should describe objectives, research design, setting, primary outcome measures, results, and implications. Authors of abstracts relating to innovative programs are encouraged to provide outcome data. Priority will be given to data-based submissions. Poster submission forms and instructions are now available.

Registration Form   Register early -- enrollment is limited.

Multidisciplinary rehabilitation providers who serve both outpatients and inpatients with brain injury and other neurological disorders; rehabilitation researchers and program administrators.

$245 USD Attending Thursday & Friday (Mar.12&13)
$160 USD Attending Thursday (Mar.12) only
$160 USD Attending Friday (Mar.13) only

Planning Committee Members:

Juan Carlos Arango	USA
Karen Brown	USA
Jose Leon Carrion	Spain
Agnes Chan	China
Fong Chan	USA
Nella Charles	Australia
John Corrigan	USA
Caron Gan	Canada
Allen Heinemann	USA
Jeffrey Kreutzer	USA
Rodger Wood	United Kingdom
Maria Cristina Quijano	Colombia
Angelle Sander	USA
Walter Videtta	Argentina
Teresita Villasenor	Mexico
Nathan Zasler	USA