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Instructional Course 11

Tracks
Gorilla 1 - Breakout C
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
11:20 AM - 12:50 PM
Gorilla Room 1

Overview

Time to embrace digital media in the SCI world: publishing or perishing in the hashtag generation!


Presenter (if the session has co-presenters, they will be listed in the APP)

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Dr Jennifer Coker
Research Scientist 1
Craig Hospital

Time to embrace digital media in the SCI world: publishing or perishing in the hashtag generation!

Biography

Mr Antonio Vecchio (BPsycsc&Soci) is the Community and Consumer Engagement Manager at the Spinal Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia. Mr Vecchio has vast experience in program development, facilitation, and community engagement. As a community and consumer engagement manager, he is passionate about ensuring that experience represented across the research is meaningful to ensure research outcomes are representative of their needs. Mr Vecchio brings a background of psychological science and an understanding of trauma to the role. He is passionate about developing a greater understanding of how trauma impacts an individual socially. Dr. Jennifer Coker has worked in the field of SCI since 1997. She obtained a Master of Public Health (MPH) from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University in May 2001, where she won the James W. Alley Award for Outstanding Service to Disadvantaged Populations, and a PhD in Clinical Science from the University of Colorado-Anschutz Medical Campus in 2020. She has been at Craig Hospital since 2012 and is the Co-Project Director of the SCI Model Systems and a member of the non-traumatic SCI SIG. Dr Coker has served as the Social Media Lead for ISCoS since 2020. Dr Jane Duff has worked as a clinical and health psychologist in spinal cord injury rehabilitation for over 25 years providing direct therapy, research, teaching/training and consultancy. In 2008 she became a Consultant, and in 2017 became Head of the National Spinal Injuries Centre Psychology Team at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. For Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, she currently leads the Psychosocial Emergency Planning Response Team. Jane’s research publications center around mood, coping and adjustment, quality of life, rehabilitation/goal planning and promoting the development of lifelong self-management skills. Internationally, Jane chairs the European Spinal Psychologists Association (ESPA) and ISCoS Psychosocial Special Interest Group.
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