Trauma meetings & conferences

Tenth World Congress on Brain Injury

The IBIA International Scientific Planning Committee and National Scientific Planning Committee would like to invite you to attend the Tenth World Congress on Brain Injury, to be held in March 19 - 22, 2014, San Francisco, California.

The IBIA World Congress is the largest gathering of international professionals working in the field of brain injury. Delegates are comprised of physicians, psychologists and neuropsychologists, therapists, social workers, nurses, case managers, legal professionals, advocates and all others working in the field of brain injury.

The Tenth World Congress program will feature internationally recognized invited speakers, platform lectures, workshops, short oral presentations and poster sessions.  The theme of the congress will be Neurotrauma, Technology, and Neurorehabilitation.

The aim of the Tenth World Congress is to provide an opportunity for establishing collegial relationships with international professionals focused on the care and/or service of persons with acquired brain injury and/or the science of brain injury research. State of the art research will be presented dealing with information spanning from basic science to clinical (coma to community) aspects of brain injury.

Finally, the Congress seeks to provide didactic opportunities for clinicians interested in advancing their knowledge in brain injury science, medicine and care.  The official language of the Congress is English, and sessions are open to all delegates registering to attend the event.

XXVI Panamerican Trauma Congress

Nov. 18-22, 2013 Santiago, Chile

43rd Critical Care Congress

January 9-13, 2014 San Francisco, California

The Society of Critical Care Medicine’s 43rd Critical Care Congress will be a powerhouse of creative and inspirational ideas for the critical care field.

We invite you to join nearly 5,000 critical care clinicians in San Francisco, where innovation will meet at the intersection of technology and medicine. Novel discoveries will be showcased, culminating a year’s worth of achievements in research and education.

The 2014 Congress will provide outstanding networking opportunities and innovative learning experiences, highlighting the most up-to-date, evidence-based developments in critical care medicine.

North American Brain Injury Society 11th Annual Conference on Brain Injury

September 18 - 21, 2013 New Orleans, Louisiana

The 2013 NABIS conference planning committee, led by Tina Trudel, PhD,  has developed an integrated educational program that promises to be of interest to researchers, clinicians, administrators, and other brain injury professionals. 

The conference will be a four-day, multi-track event that will cover a wide range of brain injury topics.  This year's topics include Effort, Exaggeration, and Malingering after Concussion; Process and Outcome of Holistic Neuropsychological Rehabiliation; State of Brain Injury Rehabilitation and Summit Update;  Episodic Dyscontrol; Resilence Post-TBI;  Affect Related Disorders Post–TBI; Pediatric Neuropsychology; Post-traumatic Headache; DVBIC Research; Models for Family Therapy Post-TBI; MTBI and Suicidal Ideation; Neurotherapy; New Developments in Understanding the Mechanism of Blast Related TBI; Trancranial Magnetic Stimulation; Clinical Practice Guidelines on Disorders of Consciousness; NIDRR Update; Sleep and Brain Injury; NASHIA and State issues in Brain Injury Services; Advanced Therapies Capitalizing on Neuroplasticity; Cultural Issues in BI Rehabilitation; Acute and Long Term Clinical Issues in Disorders of Consciousness; and Aging, Functional Decline, and Assistance.  Episodic Dyscontrol, Resilence Post-TBI, Affect Related Disorders Post-TBI, Post-traumatic Headache, Clinical Practice Guidelines on Disorders of Consciousness, NIDRR Update, mTBI and Suicidal Ideation, Trancranial Magnetic Stimulation, NASHIA and State Issues in Brain Injury Services, and Brain Injury as a Chronic Disease.   Additionally at the meeting, there will be Panel discussions on Neuro Imaging and Healthcare Reform.

Prior to the start of the general meeting, there will be a pre-conference on NeuroImaging.
 

Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine 57th Annual Conference

September 22-25, 2013 Quebec City, Canada

AAAM's conference is regarded as the most authoritative forum on current knowledge in traffic injury control and presents active and published research in multidisciplinary appraoches to automotive-related trauma in areas such as epidemiology, biomechanics, treatment and management, transport psychology, accidentology, and human factors.

Who attends?

AAAM's conference is attended by 150 experts, including emergency physicians or nurses orthopedic surgeons, trauma surgeons, neurosurgeons, radiologists, physiatrists, urologists, emergency medical providers, epidemiologists, biomechanics or vehicle design engineers, automotive engineers, crash investigators, health policy specialists, internists, psychologists, sociologists, or other human factor specialists, accident reconstructionists, or road safety specialists.

Meeting highlights

The meeting will begin with the 4th Annual Student Symposium Sunday, September 22, in which student researchers present their works in progress.

Global Health and Well-Being: The Social Work Response

June 17 - 19, 2013 NYU Global Center for Spiritual and Academic Life & NYU Kimmel Center for University Life New York, NY

Co-Sponsored by the National Association of Deans and Directors (NADD)

There is converging agreement about the world's most pressing health and psychosocial problems. These include the role of poverty; the rights and equality of women and children; the voluntary and involuntary movement of populations; disasters, natural and man-made; and the fundamental role of economic inequality in health and well-being outcomes such as mental health, addiction, and the incidences of communicable and non-communicable diseases.

This conference will focus on defining social work's unique contribution to the multidisciplinary efforts to better understand and address the grand challenges of our world. Through presentation of strong international research and examinations of social programs designed to understand and ameliorate the world's most pressing health and social problems, this conference will contribute to better understanding of the social work profession's contributions to human well-being around the world.

The conference will feature keynote papers by social work and other interdisciplinary leaders in global health and well-being. Juried presentations will highlight the range of social work research and response to advance well-being and health of people around the world.

Conference Themes:

Global Poverty (food and housing insecurity; economic development; environmental safety)
Public Health (social determinants of health; maternal and child health; mental health; addiction; disease and illness; income and other inequalities)
Women and Girls (gender equity; social development)
Children (orphans and vulnerable children)
Human Rights and Social Justice
Access to Health Care and Social Resources
Strengthening Care and Service Delivery
Trauma, Crises, and Response (natural disasters; war; violence)
Population Movements and Trafficking (war and refugees; immigration/migration; human trafficking)

Featuring:

Keynote Addresses
Roundtable Discussions
Panels
Breakout Workshops
Banquets
Luncheons
Student Forum

Additional Options:

Cultural Events
Agency Visits