Scientific Conference 2005

The Stroke Association held its 10th Scientific Conference on 21 - 22 September 2005 at Churchill College, Cambridge and it was a great success.

The conference was supported thanks to educational grants from Bristol-Myers Squibb/Sanofi~Aventis and Boehringer Ingelheim.

2005 Scientific Conference Finalised Programme (38 kb)

You can download a selection of the presentations which were made on 21 September below:

User Involvement in the ACT NoW Study (117 kb)  
Presented by Dr Audrey Bowen (University of Manchester), Mr Sean Crosby (Research User Group, The ACT NoW Study), Ms Pat Gallagher (Research User Group, The ACT NoW Study).

The Stroke Association's Campaign Strategy (202 kb)  
Presented by Joe Korner, Director of Communications, The Stroke Association.

Researchers funded by The Stroke Association presented their work on 22 September. Click on the link to view the Oral Presentations abstracts list (90 kb) .

You can also download the following Day 2 speaker presentations:

Acute Stroke
Lessons learnt from intensive glucose monitoring in acute ischaemic stroke.ppt (280 kb)

National audit of indications for and outcomes from carotid endarerectomy.ppt (159 kb)

Predicting the early risk of stroke after a TIA: ABCD and beyond.ppt (237 kb)

Prevention
Habitual fish consumption and risk of incident stroke: the European prospective investigation into cancer (EPIC) - Norfolk prospective population study.ppt (476 kb)

Stroke genes in ethnic minorities.ppt (1696 kb)

South London Stroke and Ethnicity Study.ppt (147 kb)

Community Services and Rehabilitation
Predicting falls among people with stroke at time of discharge from hospital to the community.ppt (242 kb)

Anosognosia for hemiplegia following right and left brain damage.ppt (2604 kb)

Mapping mental motor imagery in stroke patients using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging.pdf (1316 kb)

Implications of national clinical guidelines for stroke on primary care: cross sectional study and cost analysis of blood pressure control in people with cerebrovascular disease.ppt (78 kb)

Dynamic brain processes in recovery from aphasia: The development of an event-related fMRI technique to compare correct and error performance during object naming.ppt (1008 kb)

Predictive value of STRATIFY for falls in stroke patients.ppt (130 kb)

A selection of Stroke Association funded researchers presented posters of their work and these can be viewed by downloading the Poster Abstracts list (76 kb)


UK Stroke Research Network Launch Meeting

The Stroke Association also helped with the arrangements for this meeting, which immediately preceded the Scientific Conference on 21 September. The aims and structure of the UK Stroke Research Network were discussed, and details of the full commissioning process for Local Research Networks were described.

UKSRN Launch Meeting Programme (30 kb)

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