BIBS22 Online Event Resources
Bold Ideas Better Solutions Online Symposium - BIBS2022
The Hopkins Centre’s sixth annual Better Ideas Bold Solutions symposium (BIBS22) was held virtually on Wednesday 30th November 2022, via Zoom Webinar.
This years presentations showcased the outcomes and impacts of The Hopkins Centre's interdiciplinary and translational work from the last 5 years of research exploring bold ideas that are being translated into better solutions for the future. We had researchers and leaders from a diverse range of research and clinical backgrounds disucssing the latest in disability and rehabilitation, including Hopkins partnership projects, insights into care translations, optimising systems, access, dignified participation, innovative strategies for consumer-citizen engagement and co-design in research.
The Hopkins Centre thanks everyone who attended, along with event speakers, guests and session chairs for a stimulating variey of presentations from The Centre's flagship programs along with Seed Grant project updates and Clinician Fellowships.
This year's presentations included:
Professor Timothy Geraghty - Trajectories of Rehabilitation across Complex Environments (TRaCE)
Dr Christy Hogan - Complex Rehabilitation in Systems under Immense Stress (CRISIS) -
View a copy of Christy's presentation here.
Jessica Bowley - Transition2Sub-acute Project
Dr Kerrin Watter - vocational rehabilitation in early transitional brain injury service.
View a copy of Kerrin's presentation here.
Dr Camila Shirota - HabITec & creating Accessible Technology for all
View a copy of Camila's presentation here.
Ameila Tan - Sabeo Flex translation and implementation
View a copy of Amelia's presentation here.
Kelsey Chapman - The Dignity Project highlights
Letitia Burridge - Building research capacity in rehabilitation medical officers
View a copy of Letitia's presentation here.
Glenn Verner-Wren - Redesigning the care processes for the management of newly acquired spinal cord injury (SCI) on the orthopaedic wards at the Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH).
View a copy of Glenns's presentation here.
Your BIBS2022 Speakers:
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Professor Timothy GeraghtyMedical Chair, Division of Rehabilitation Metro South Health & Deputy Director, The Hopkins Centre.
Tim Geraghty is a Rehabilitation Medicine Physician and Medical Chair, Division of Rehabilitation (DoR), Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH), Metro South Health (MSH). He received a Fellowship in the Australasian Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine (Royal Australasian College of Physicians) in 1997. He has been a Staff Specialist in the Queensland Spinal Cord Injuries Service (QSCIS) for 20 years and was the Director from 1999-2009. In 2005, he was instrumental in the establishment of the DoR and remains Medical Chair. He received an academic title of Professor from Griffith University in 2014 and has been Deputy Director and current Co-Director of The Hopkins Centre: Research for Rehabilitation and Resilience since June 2022. |
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Dr Christy HoganResearch Fellow
Completing her PhD in 2018, she has worked as an RA on multiple research projects at Griffith University and is currently a Research Fellow at the Hopkins Centre. She inspired and aims to translate research findings into better outcomes for individuals with brain injury, their families, and the professionals that support them. Christy enjoys partnering with and listening to people's stories and experiences of brain injury. |
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Jessica BowleyResearch Assistant
Jessica has a Bachelor of Psychology (Honours) and more than ten years’ experience in special education, complex disability support and disability advocacy. She is currently a PhD candidate at Griffith University. Throughout her early career, Jessica worked across a variety of educational, residential, and clinical settings promoting person-centred active support and collaboration, which she is now passionate about translating into her research and into clinical practice. Since joining the Hopkins Centre in 2021, Jessica has worked closely with the Allied Health Professions’ Office Queensland on several projects including the Transition to Sub-Acute (T2SA) project, a collaborative project seeking to provide more seamless transition care for patients receiving sub-acute and rehabilitation care, particularly in regional and remote locations. The corresponding outputs of these projects are now being disseminated throughout various clinical networks in Queensland. Jessica is also working closely on a number of projects as a member of the ‘Trajectories of Rehabilitation across Complex Environments (TRaCE) 2.0’ research team. |
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Dr Kerrin WatterClinical Lead - ABI TRS
Kerrin is a clinical practicing speech pathologist with a speciality in Brain Injury Rehabilitation. She currently works as the Clinical Lead for the new Acquired Brain Injury Transitional Rehabilitation Service at PA Hospital. |
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Dr Camila ShirotaAdvanced Queensland Fellow
Camila Shirota received her Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering from Northwestern University while working at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. During her Ph.D., she investigated able-bodied and above-knee amputee balance recovery from tripping perturbations during walking. She was then a post-doctoral researcher at ETH Zurich, where she was involved in studies using powered exoskeletons to better understand unimpaired walking, and to restore locomotor function in people with spinal cord injury. She was also a researcher at the University of Zurich, where she studied the use of technology to support unsupervised gait training in stroke survivors. |
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Kelsey ChapmanDignity Project Research Lead, Researcher and PhD Candidate
Kelsey is the research lead of The Dignity Project Flagship program at The Hopkins Centre. She is also the lead researcher on a new collaboration with the Department of Transport and Main Roads. Kelsey specialises in human rights research, disability research and rights, critical disability theory, and dignity theory. She has extensive experience in ethics, governance, and data management and security as well as supporting fellow researchers in project and research management. |
BIBS Award Announcements
At the end of the symposium, The Centre's Research Director, Tamara Ownsworth, presented a number of awards to researchers for outstanding efforts in the fields of Citizen Research Impact, Early Career Researcher, Research Champion and Clinical Translation. Congratulations to Dr Gary Allen, Mike Norwood, Dr Kerrin Watter and Rachel Jones who were recognised in the awards ceremony. The researchers each provides some words of thanks, which were read out by Tamara. The physical awards ceremony will be held during The Centre's upcoming Meet & Mingle event, on the 21st of February, 2023. The researchers will recieve their physical awards at the next Meet & Mingle event in February 2023.
Watch the full event recording here
This event was funded by The Hopkins Cente foundation partners, the Division of Rehabilitation, Metro South Health and Menzies Health Insititute Queensland, Griffith University, as well as the Motor Accident Insurance Commission (MAIC). The Hopkins Centre acknowledges and appreciates the ongoing support received from the Motor Accident Insurance Commission (MAIC) in our research and translation events.
