Welsh Stroke Conference

The Welsh Stroke Conference is Wales’s largest multidisciplinary conference for stroke healthcare and other professionals.

Bhowmick Lecture:

Prehospital stroke care: the new frontier, Professor Geoffrey Donnan AO, University of Melbourne, Australia  

The Bhowmick Lecture was introduced in 2005 in honour of Professor Bimal Bhowmick who had been one of the very first pioneers to see stroke services improved first in his own area of Rhyl in North Wales and then for the benefit of the whole of Wales.

The programme also includes:

A Stroke Survivor’s Story, Steve McKenna 

Rebuilding Lives After Stroke, Katie Chappelle, Stroke Association 

Stroke research - my journey, an AHP's perspective, Dr Hannah Jarvis,  Manchester Metropolitan University 

Research updates, Dr Jonathan Hewitt, Health and Care Research Wales Specialty Lead for Stroke & Dr Abdul Seckam, MRes in Stroke 2022, Cardiff Metropolitan University

Good Clinical Practice: the Essentials, Cat Johnston & Marian Bough, Health and Care Research Wales 

How can we improve rehabilitation for young stroke survivors? (Live Research – Focus Group Session), Dr Hannah Jarvis, Manchester Metropolitan University