The Hopkins Centre In Focus Research Series - Session one
This session has now concluded. To view the session recording please click here.
Please register for the remaining sessions two and three in the series below.
Session two: Wednesday, 18 November 2020, from 1.30pm to 3.30pm AUS Eastern Time
Session three: NEW DATE Wednesday, 2 December 2020, from 1.30pm to 3.00pm AUS Eastern Time
Access to the event
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Session one - Wednesday, 4 November 2020, from 1.30pm to 3.00pm AEST
Practitioner perspectives on system and service disruption
In this first research session, we will hear practitioners' perspectives on system and service disruption across the continuum of care. This session will highlight the experiences and ideas about how technology can solve problems and accelerate positive change in the delivery and design of rehabilitation.
This is a FREE event for everyone and we invite you to register attend this virtual In Focus Research Series session and hear more about Resilience and Adaptation in Rehabilitation. This research series will be held via virtual platform across three days, for 90 minutes each research series. We are pleased to release our preliminary session program, featuring research and health experts discussing the impact of pandemic events during 2020 on rehabilitation systems, services, connections and community.
Registration for session one is now closed. Please join the event on Wednesday 4 November at the link details above.
Thank you for your support of The Hopkins Centre research series. We look forward to seeing you at each research series event session.
This session is part of a three-part virtual event series, with all session details outlined below.
- Session two: Wednesday, 18 November 2020, from 1.30pm to 3.30pm AUS Eastern Time
- Session three: NEW DATE Wednesday, 2 December 2020, from 1.30pm to 3.00pm AUS Eastern Time
Register for session two and three by clicking the links above.
Program details
Click here to download program.
Speakers
We are pleased to release our preliminary session program, featuring research and health experts discussing the impact of pandemic events during 2020 on rehabilitation systems, services, connections and community. The full research session program will be released shortly.
- Dr Ryan Bell, Medical Director, Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit, Metro South Health
- Dr Steven Peterson, General Practioner, NSW Health Virtual Rural Generalist Service
- Ms Kiley Pershouse, Co-Chair, State-wide Rehabilitation Clinical Network
- Associate Professor David Trembath, Speech Pathologist,Advance Queensland Fellow andDeputy Research Director at The Hopkins Centre, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University
- Dr Camila Shirota, Advance Queensland Research Fellow, The Hopkins Centre
Click here to download speaker bios.
Ms Kiley Pershouse
Co-Chair, State-wide Rehabilitation Clinical Network
Spinal Outreach Team, Queensland Spinal Cord Injuries Service, Division of Rehabilitation, Metro South Hospital and Health Service.
Kiley Pershouse is the Clinical Co-Chair of the Statewide Rehabilitation Clinical Network and was a founding member of Network’s Steering Committee. The Statewide Rehabilitation Clinical Network provides the opportunity to promote, advocate and lead initiatives that advance rehabilitation care.
Kiley is currently the manager of the Spinal Outreach Team in the Queensland Spinal Cord Injuries Service, Division of Rehabilitation, Metro South Health. Since graduating as a social worker, and for the majority of her career, Kiley has worked in the area of spinal cord injury and community rehabilitation. Firstly, as a member of the project team who worked on the development, implementation and evaluation of the spinal cord injuries outreach service model and for the last 18 years as manager of the Spinal Outreach Team.
Through her work with the Spinal Outreach Team and with the Statewide Rehabilitation Clinical Network, Kiley has developed a strong interest in promoting, advocating and leading health service delivery and research initiatives that benefit service users and advance rehabilitation, particularly in the community setting.
Dr Camila Shirota
Advanced Queensland Fellow, The Hopkins Centre
Her research interests include neuromuscular control of human gait and its applications to rehabilitation; (technology-based) assessment of sensorimotor function; and translation of technologies into clinical and home environments.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.
Associate Professor David Trembath
Speech Pathologist, Deputy Research Director and Advanced Queensland Fellow, The Hopkins Centre,
Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University
Associate Professor Trembath is a speech pathologist at the forefront of research efforts addressing communication impairment in minimally verbal children with autism and other developmental disabilities. His program of multidisciplinary collaborative research, supported by fellowships and research grants over $2.8 million dollars, has challenged conventional thinking and practice for children, adolescents, and adults with lifelong disability and formed the basis of over 80 publications, reports, and guidelines. He led the writing of the Speech Pathology Australia Clinical Guideline on evidence-based assessment and intervention for individuals with autism, holds a range of university and industry appointments including Secretary of the Australasian Society for Autism Research, and is highly engaged in mentoring junior research and clinical colleagues. David’s research is characterised by large, community and industry embedded collaborative projects involving key partners including the AEIOU Foundation and the Nerang Alliance network of 7 schools and approximately 20 early childhood education centres, focused on addressing the most pressing community identified needs.
Dr Steven Peterson 
General Practioner, NSW Health Virtual Rural Generalist Service
Steve Peterson studied medicine at the Australian National University and ended up in Orange after working in the Northern Territory, Far North Queensland, the Kimberley and Newcastle. He is a fellowed GP and also worked regularly at the Orange hospital emergency department. However he was hit by a car whilst riding his bicycle to work in 2018 and became quadriplegic amongst other injuries. He returned to work 18 months ago in telehealth addiction and educational roles. He currently works for the remote GP service and the Virtual Rural Generalist service, WYLA addiction services and GP Synergy - a GP training organisation.. He lives with his wife and two young children on a cattle farm close to Orange.
Dr Ryan Bell
Medical Director, Brain Injury Rehabilitation Unit, Metro South Health
Image and biography to be provided shortly
