Medilink

Trauma and injury resulting from conflict or accident be it civil or sport results in severe curtailment and incapacity. Such events bring about life changing situations together with a reduction in the quality of life of a patient.

Technology provides health care professionals with the ability to enhance their personal skills to the benefit of the patient in turn technology provides the patient with a means to replace and compliment missing and defective anatomical body parts. The conference will demonstrate leading edge clinical prosthetics and the technology of rehabilitation from war zone, accident and stroke together with soft tissue injury.

New innovations will be presented in the programme employing leading edge technology, the programme will be of key interest to clinicians, bioengineers, clinical scientists, prosthesists and all health care processionals concerned with rehabilitation of the patient following injury.

Programme

9.30 am Registration, tea and coffee

10.00 am Welcome - Professor Robin Williamson, President of the Royal Society of Medicine

10.10 am Presidential address and introduction - Professor Alan Roberts, President, Technology in Medicine Section, Royal Society of Medicine

10.40 am Assisted transfer technology: Eliminating manual handling and hoisting in patient transfers - Mr Dane McGee, Managing Director, Engineered Assistance Ltd

11.10 am Tea, coffee and exhibition stands

11.40 am Expectation and reality - Lt-Colonel (Retd) Jerome Church, General Secretary BLESMA

12.10 pm The ARNI approach: An innovative strategy for stroke rehabilitation - Dr Tom Balchin, Director, The ARNI Trust

12.40 pm Lunch

1.40 pm Acute trauma and musculoskeletal rehabilitation in the military: Current clinical and management challenges - Colonel J Tuck, Commanding Officer, DMRC, Headley Court

2.10 pm The health tech and medicines knowledge transfer network (KTN): Accelerating technology adoption - Mr Kevin Kiely, Managing Director, Medilink

2.40 pm Tea, coffee and exhibition stands

3.10 pm FES Rowing for people with spinal cord injury - Professor Brian Andrews, Brunel, Institute for Bioengineering

3.40 pm Improvements in the cosmetic appearance of artificial limbs - Mr Bob Watts, Managing Director, Dorset Prosthetics

4.10 pm Creating inclusive adventure for health - Mr Suresh Paul, Principle Advocate, Equal Adventure

4.40 pm Completion of evaluation forms

4.45 pm Closing remarks - Professor Alan Roberts, President, Technology in Medicine Section, Royal Society of Medicine

4.50 pm Close of meeting

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