Hopkins Hour - Understanding the lived experience of people with spinal cord injury: Update from the Australian arm International Spinal Cord Injury Community Survey Project (Aus-InSCI)

The Hopkins Centre invites clinicians, researchers, industry partners, people with lived experience of spinal cord injury and anyone with an interest in the topic, to join The Hopkins Centre's Director Prof. Tim Geraghty, for an update from the Aus-InSCI project. Prof. Geraghty will be joined by a panel of Program 1 researchers including Samantha Borg, Dr. Annette Kifley and Dr Camila Quel De Oliveira for 3 presentations from the Aus-InSCI project, followed by a stimulating panel discussion.

Prof. Geraghty will provide an introduction and Background to Aus-InSCI, followed by Sam Borg who will share findings on health service use and unmet healthcare needs in spinal cord injury, from an Australian cross-sectional study. Dr Annette Kifley, Senior Research Fellow, John Walsh Centre for Rehabilitation Research, will then discuss the burden and impact of hidden disability in people with spinal cord injury. In the final presentation by Dr Camila Quel De Oliveira, Senior Lecturer, Physiotherapy University of Technology Sydney, Graduate School of Health - Discipline of Physiotherapy, participants will hear about leisure-time physical activity for individuals with spinal cord injury. 

The presentations will be followed by a stimulating panel discussion, with audience Q&A. 

This is sure to be a stimulating program.