UCLP CENTRE FOR NEUROREHABILITATION
& INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING PRESENT:
WHAT’S THE USE OF TECHNOLOGY IN NEUROREHABILITATION?
th
Thursday 9 October 2014
Lecture Theatre, 33 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG
8.30 am
8.50 am – 9.00am
Registration
Welcome and overview of the day
SESSION I
The Challenges of Commercialisation (Chair: Alex Leff)
9.00-9.25 am
Helping start-ups and SMEs make the most of what a university has to offer (Alastair
Moore, UCL Advances, London)
9.25-9.50 am
The regulatory valley of death (John Spensley, Finetech Medical Ltd, Welwyn Garden
City)
9.50-10.15 am
Implementing point-of-care digitisation in clinical practice (Parashkev Nachev, UCL,
London)
10.15-10.30
Panel discussion
10.30-11.00 am
Break
SESSION II
New Environments for Neurorehabilitation (Chair: Nick Ward)
11.00-11.25 am
Extracting meaning from a crowd of sensors tracking movement on a stroke unit –
implications for neurorehabilitation (Robert van Deursen, Cardiff University)
11.25-11.50 pm
Evaluating the effects of a virtual communication environment for people who have
aphasia (Jane Marshall, City University, London)
11.50-12.15 pm
Web-based therapies for patients with acquired visual disorders (Alex Leff, UCL,
London)
12.15-12.30
Panel discussion
12.30-1.30 pm
Exhibition & Lunch
SESSION III
Stimulation and Neuroprosthetics for Movement (Chair: Nick Donaldson)
1.30-1.55 pm
Performance-driven control of FES for upper limb stroke rehabilitation (Jane
Burridge, Southampton University)
1.55-2.20 pm
Targetted muscle reinnervation and its application to control of prosthetic arms
(Norbert Kang, Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust, London)
2.20-2.45 pm
Neurorehabilitation and neuroprosthetic technologies to restore function after
spinal cord injury (Rubia van den Brand, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
2.45-3.00 pm
Panel discussion
3.00-3.30 pm
Break
Session IV
Assistive Technology in Neurorehabilitation (Chair: Diane Playford)
3.30-3.55 pm
Musical routes to rehabilitation (Lauren Stewart, Mick Grierson and Pedro Kirk,
Goldsmiths College, London)
3.55-4.20 pm
Electronic Assistive Technology (EAT) and the future of communication aids (Gary
Derwent, Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability, Putney)
4.20-4.45 pm
Walking without wheels (Mark Miodownik, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
UCL, London)
4.45-5.00 pm
Panel discussion
5.00-7.00pm
Refreshments and discussion