PROGRAM

Tuesday 18 August 2026

8:30AM - 12:00PM
AuSCR Workshop
Australasian Stroke Academy Workshop
12:00PM - 1:00PM
Lunch (self-catered)
1:00PM - 5:00PM
Simulation Workshop
Communication Partner Training: Supporting people with Aphasia

Wednesday 19 August 2026

8:15AM - 9:00AM
Official Conference Opening and Welcome
9:00AM - 9:30AM
Plenary Session 1: Prof Gert Kwakkel
9:30AM - 10:00AM
Plenary Session 2: Prof Bruce Campbell
10:00AM - 10:30AM
Morning Tea & Poster Tour
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Reperfusion
Digital Health
Stroke Rehabilitation
Workshop: CRE Lived Experience
12:00PM - 1:30PM
Lunch
ANZSO Emerging Stroke Clinician Scientist Committee Symposium: Building effective professional networks, an expert panel discussion12:15PM - 1:15PM · B1
1:30PM - 3:00PM
Pre-hospital and reperfusion care
Implementation of evidenced based-practice in rehabilitation
Primary and Secondary prevention
Yarn After Stroke
3:00PM - 3:30PM
Afternoon Tea & Poster Tour
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Systems of care (acute and rehabilitation)
Life After Stroke
Workshop: Acute Stroke Nurses Education Network (ASNEN)
5:00PM - 6:30PM
Welcome Function

Thursday 20 August 2026

7:00AM - 8:15AM
Chiesi Breakfast Symposium
7:00AM - 8:00AM
Fun Run/Walk
8:30AM - 9:00AM
Plenary Session 3: Prof Lara Boyd
9:00AM - 9:30AM
Plenary Session 4: Prof William Whiteley
9:30AM - 10:00AM
Plenary Session 5: Prof Gert Kwakkel
10:00AM - 10:30AM
Morning Tea & Poster Tour
10:30AM - 12:00PM
Telestroke
Implementation Science
Workshop: National Hypertension Taskforce
Workshop: Early Phase Trials: Why to run them and how to design them well?
12:00PM - 1:30PM
Lunch
ASTN AGM & Rapid Fire
1:30PM - 3:00PM
Intracerebral Haemorrhage
Big data and Epidemiology
Workshop: Allied Health - advanced stroke practice
Workshop: Advanced practice and research in nursing
3:00PM - 3:30PM
Afternoon Tea & Poster Tour
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Heart Brain
Living healthy after stroke
Rehabilitation and Recovery
Quality improvement
5:00PM - 6:00PM
ANZSO AGM
7:00PM - 11:00PM
Conference Dinner

Friday 21 August 2026

8:30AM - 10:00AM
Acute care
Preclinical and discovery sciences
Rehabilitation and recovery clinical trials
Advances in statistical analysis, study design and epidemiology
10:00AM - 10:30AM
Morning Tea
10:30AM - 11:00AM
Plenary Session 6: Prof William Whiteley
11:00AM - 11:30AM
Plenary Session 7: Prof Lara Boyd
11:30AM - 11:45AM
Guidelines: What's new?
11:45AM - 11:55AM
Revised Stroke Clinical Care Standards
11:55AM - 12:10PM
Stroke Data Platform: Implementation of a new platform and the availability of an expanded dataset
12:10PM - 12:25PM
MEASURES Program: From Co-Design to Care Standards: Building the Evidence Base for Aphasia Quality Measurement
12:25PM - 12:40PM
National Stroke Statistics and Data Landscape
12:40PM - 1:00PM
Excellence in Stroke Oration
1:00PM - 1:10PM
Stroke Awards
1:10PM - 1:30PM
Conference Handover

Registration Inclusions

  • Access to ALL conference Sessions for the days you are attending

  • Morning Tea, lunch, afternoon tea for the days you are attending

  • A ticket to the Welcome Function (RSVP is required for catering purposes upon registration)

  • Full Registrations include a ticket to the Conference Dinner (RSVP is required for catering purposes upon registration)

  • Access to the conference app

  • Free WIFI access throughout the conference venue

  • Certificate of attendance post conference

  • The registration fee covers and includes all Australian Government taxes

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