Injured Brains of Medical Minds: Views From Within [Online Conference]
The conference is based on the second edition of the best-selling 1997 first edition of Injured Brains of Medical Minds. The aim of the book and the conference is to provide information that improves patient care, provides practical guidance to healthcare professionals, and offers insights into the workings of the human brain.
- Zoom webinar
- Supported by UCL Centre for Neurorehabilitation
- Registration: Injured Brains of Medical Minds: Views From Within [Online Conference]
- Queries: cnr@ucl.ac.uk
Registration for this event is free, however, if you can make a voluntary donation to the Dr Karen Woo International Award. Please note that donations are not required in order to register for this event.
Programme
Time | Title | Speaker |
11.00-11.10am [BST] | Welcome | Narinder Kapur |
11.10-11.50am [BST] | A left parietal tumour: diagnosis and treatment | Professor Cyrus Cooper |
11.50am-12.30pm [BST] | TBC | TBC |
12.30-1.10pm [BST] | Acute and long-term experience of a subarachnoid haemorrhage | Dr John Scadding |
1.10-2.00pm [BST] | Break | |
2.00-2.40pm [BST] | Recovering from COVID | Professor Alex Mitchell |
2.40-3.20pm [BST] | Reflections on my right hemisphere stroke and (partial) recovery | Professor Morris Moscovitch |
3.20-4.00pm [BST] | Living with Multiple Sclerosis | Mr Ayad Marhoon |
4.00-4.40pm [BST] | An Alzheimer’s Journey: doctor-patient and psychologist-carer perspectives | Professor Paul Bebbington & Professor Elizabeth Kuipers |
4.40-5.20pm [BST] | Recovering from a Traumatic Brain Injury | Dr Jonathan Perera |
A book on the same theme of the conference Injured Brains of Medical Minds II, will be published in October 2024. This conference is based on the second edition of the best-selling 1997 first edition of Injured Brains of Medical Minds. The aim of the book and the conference is to provide information that improves patient care, provides practical guidance to healthcare professionals, and offers insights into the workings of the human brain.
The book royalties will go to award schemes Professor Kapur has set up in memory of two people, a doctor and a nurse, who have inspired him in unique ways. The doctor is Dr Karen Woo, a University College London-trained doctor, who was murdered by terrorists in 2010 while providing aid in Afghanistan. He was drawn to Karen’s tragedy in part because it resembled how he and other NHS whistleblowers have been treated. Like Karen, they went out of their way to help others, only to be victimised as a result of their efforts. The nurse in question is nurse Amin Abdullah, a dedicated, award-winning nurse who was the victim of a gross miscarriage of justice (‘kangaroo court’) when he was unfairly dismissed in 2015. He was also, in part, an NHS whistleblower, drawing attention to patient safety issues. The two award schemes are described in an article Professor Kapur published in the UK Health Service Journal (October, 2022), and also on this website.
Further information
Ticketing
Ticketed and Pre-booking essential
Cost
Free
Open to
All
Availability
Yes