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Project E1: Annual Joint NRH/NIH/ACRM/APMR and
NIDRR Conference
Funding Source: Neuroscience
Research Center (USAMRMC)
Conference
(2004): Stroke Rehabilitation: Outstanding Outcomes and Best
Practices
Principal Investigator
(2004): Brendan E. Conroy, MD
Abstract (2004):
The NRH Neuroscience Center featured a program
designed to provide clinicians with a comprehensive, current and practical
approach to post stroke management. Functional approaches and innovative
management techniques were emphasized.
The program included didactic lectures, question and answer sessions,
panel discussions, workshops, and patient management case studies. Participants were encouraged to bring
problem or innovative cases from their own practices for discussion.
Objectives for this program were as
follows:
Describe a best practice research methodology to
investigate stroke rehab
Describe the challenges rehab providers face in
adapting to a Prospective Payment System
Identify a variety of appropriate outcome measurement
tools to document the benefits of stroke rehab
Apply systematic assessments of tone and related
problems in your practice.
Progress and Outcomes:
On May 14-15, 2004, Brendan E. Conroy, MD, Medical Director,
Stroke Recovery Program, National Rehabilitation Hospital, convened the CME symposium, "Stroke
Rehabilitation: Outstanding
Outcomes and Best Practices" which
was designed to provide clinicians with a comprehensive, current and practical
approach to post stroke management. This two-day symposium was jointly sponsored
by Washington Hospital Center (WHC) and National Rehabilitation Hospital (NRH)
and was held at NRH. The activity
featured national speakers (Pamela W. Duncan, PhD, and Gerber DeJong, PhD, both
of University of Florida, Brooks Center for Rehabilitation Studies; and, Susan
J. Ryerson, PT, MA, National Rehabilitation Hospital, in addition to
participating MedStar Health faculty).
The audience of approximately 125 attendees was a regional one of
physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals, as well as physical
therapists, occupational therapists, speech language pathologists, and case
managers. Attendees represented the DC and Baltimore metropolitan areas
and areas as far away as North Carolina, Missouri, Oklahoma, Massachusetts, and
Tennessee.
We are now in the process of selecting the principal
conference theme for the coming year.
Conference (2003):
The Future of Medical Rehabilitation
Research
Principal Investigators (2003): Gerben
DeJong, PhD, NRH Neuroscience Research Center and Lynn Gerber, PhD, NIH Clinical
Center
Abstract
(2003):
The NRH
Neuroscience Center features an annual two-day invitational research conference
that examines emerging issues in neuroscience, medical rehabilitation science,
human performance measurement and enhancement, and research capacity
building. The purpose is to examine the state of the science, identify
promising research opportunities, and identify best practices in research
administration and capacity building. The invitation-only conference
results in a proceedings that summarizes the conference’s key findings and
recommendations.
Progress and Outcomes (2003): A conference entitled “Building Research Capacity in Rehabilitation Science” was held on the campus of the National Institutes of Health. The NRH Neuroscience Research Center was successful in securing several co-sponsors to help broaden the scope and depth of the conference. They included the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research, the Association of Academic Physiatrists, the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, and the National Institutes of Health’s Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center.
The conference was designed to bring together professionals actively engaged in rehabilitation science who perform investigations at the physiological/impairment end of the disability model and those who conduct more clinically based research at the functional/disability end of the disability model. Conference themes included:
1. The barriers and opportunities to expand collaborative research opportunities for basic and clinical researchers;
2. The infrastructure and capacity-building tools needed to advance rehabilitation research including opportunities for broadening collaboration through the creation of database generation and access; and
3. New
methods to improve transfer of information from bench to clinic and health
policy.
Plan:
We are now in
the process of selecting the principal conference theme for the coming
year.
Publication and Presentations:
One outcome of the conference was a conference proceedings. The principals, Drs. DeJong and Gerber, have attempted to entice the Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation to publish the proceedings with no firm commitment yet to publish the proceedings. See Building Research Capacity in Rehabilitation Science.
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