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Australasian Brain Club
Academic group bringing fetal, neonatal & paediatric brain researchers across Australia and New Zealand together.
Australasian Brain Club 2024
After the outstanding success of ABC 2023, we are proud to announce ABC 2024
November 14 - 15
Melbourne
REGISTRATION AND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS NOW OPEN
Speakers
Check out our current lists of presenters
- Linda de Vries
- Steven Miller
- Michael Stark
- Mark Mackay
- Helen Liley
@AusNZBrainClub
Vision Statement
The Australasian Brain Club has been created as a forum in which Discovery scientists, Clinician Scientists, Obstetricians, Neonatologists, Neurologists, Nursing and Allied health staff from around Australasia can come together to share research, experience and other learnings that pertain to optimising the care of the fetal and newborn brain.
Perinatal brain injury remains a highly significant problem for the high-risk newborn and proven targeted therapies to afford protection of the brain remain very limited. Our best chance of improving the health and development of the brain is to tackle the challenges together.
Our aim is to improve health and development of the brain by supporting and promoting preclinical research so that positive results can be efficiently tested and translated into clinical practice.
- We aim to further reduce the rates and severity of cerebral palsy.
- We aim to consciously consider and actively research mechanisms to close the equity gap in outcomes that afflict our First Nations populations.
Our goal is to inform practice and policy that improves outcomes for high-risk newborns, further reducing the current burden of mortality and morbidity.
Our activities will include
- an annual face to face meeting at which new learnings can be presented, new and existing collaborations can be developed and strengthened and further research can be planned
- a monthly on-line journal club at which new research can be critically appraised and challenging cases can be presented
- regular newsletters providing updates on publications, meetings and events pertinent to perinatal and neonatal neurology
For further information pertaining to Australasian Brain Club please contact:
Professor Rod Hunt
Professor of Neonatal Medicine, Monash University
Director of Research, Victoria, Cerebral Palsy Alliance
or
Professor Suzie Miller
Director, The Ritchie Centre
