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 Geraghty

Medical 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 Hogan

Research Fellow 
The Hopkins Centre

 

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 Bowley

Research Assistant
The Hopkins Centre

 

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 Watter

Clinical 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.
 
Kerrin’s interests include evidence based practice, translational research and service delivery models for early brain injury rehabilitation. Kerrin is currently completing her PhD on developing an evidence-based intervention and service delivery model for cognitive-communication reading comprehension deficits in early ABI rehabilitation.

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Dr Camila Shirota

Advanced Queensland Fellow
The Hopkins Centre, MHIQ, Griffith University.

 

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.

 

Ameila Tan

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Kelsey Chapman

Dignity 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. 

BIBS22 award winners flyer, with profile photos of the 4 award winners and the BIBS22 banner on top

 

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.