Stroke Society of Australasia (SSA) is hosting its 25th Annual Scientific Meeting at Hamilton Island,

300 leading minds but I bet not a single stroke survivor is doing a presentation.
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Contact those presenters and ask what the strategy is to get everyone to 100% recovery. With no strategy there is no hope of ever solving stroke problems. We're just fumbling in the dark.

The Stroke Society of Australasia (SSA) is hosting its 25^th Annual Scientific Meeting at Hamilton Island, bringing together around 300 of finest minds in stroke. This is the premier conference event for all stroke clinicians in Australia, New Zealand and in the Asia Pacific region.
Stroke Society of Australasia President Professor Mark Parsons said this year’s meeting was focused on reperfusion and plasticity; that is the tissue damage to the brain after blood supply returns following a stroke and retraining the brain to compensate for areas that were damaged by a stroke.
“There have been some really exciting developments in these areas. The brain is an amazing organ and it can be retrained to compensate for areas that have died as a result of stroke,” Professor Parsons said.
“During this meeting we will be discussing the latest research into maximising the brains potential through rehabilitation and other methods, this includes looking at the use of electronic gaming devices, creating serine environments for rehab, the use of anti-depressants in rehab patients and the benefits of fast movement versus slow.
“Over the period of the conference we will be discussing the full spectrum of stroke care from acute and secondary stroke prevention treatments as well as stroke rehabilitation and recovery.”
The SSA Scientific Meeting brings together the leading minds in stroke from Australia, New Zealand and the world.
International stroke care experts to present at the meeting include:

• Prof Dr Anne Alexandrov - Nurse Physiologist, A/Dean for Program Evaluation and Professor, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
• Prof Dr Joachim Berkefeld - Neurointerventionist, Head of Neurovascular Group and Leading Senior Physician, Goethe University Hospital, Germany
• A/Prof Dr Ken Butcher - Neurologist, Division of Neurology, Dept of Medicine, University of Alberta, Canada
• Prof Dr Michael Hill - Neurologist, Director of the Stroke Unit, Alberta Health Services, University of Calgary, Canada
• Prof Heidi Johansen-Berg - Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, FMRIB Centre, Dept of Clinical Neurology, University of Oxford, UK
• Dr Cathy Stinear - Clinical Neuroscientist, Senior Lecturer, Dept of Medicine, University of Auckland, NZ

The Stroke Society of Australiasia  is the peak professional body for health professionals committed to improving the lives of people with stroke.
“This meeting has provided an opportunity for some of the nation’s great medical minds to come together to benefit the 420,000 stroke survivors living in Australia, as well as the one in six people who will have a stroke in their lifetime,’’ Professor Parsons said.