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Oral Presentations 5

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Room F4
Thursday, October 9, 2025
11:00 - 12:30
Room F4

Overview

Respiratory and Neuro


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

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Mrs Brooke Wadsworth
Physiotherapy Team Leader, Rehabilitation
Queensland Health

An interprofessional cognitive aid to optimise extubation planning after acute cervical spinal cord injury

11:00 - 11:15

Biography

Brooke is passionate about health outcomes of people with spinal cord injuries. having worked in this area since 2000. She brings a wealth of knowledge from acute to community care, leading co-design research and improvement initiatives, and more recently as the President of the Australian and New Zealand Spinal Cord Society. Working part-time as a Physiotherapy Clinical Team Leader in rehabilitation at the Surgical Treatment and Rehabilitation Service hospital, and a Program Manager of the MNH Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Project, she brings people and services together to enhance capability.
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Melina Giagiozis
PhD Student
University Hospital Balgrist

Impact of descending and ascending tract damage on mobility after spinal cord injury

11:15 - 11:30

Biography

Melina Giagiozis is a 3rd-year PhD student at the Spinal Cord Injury Research Center of Balgrist University Hospital in Zurich and the Biomedical Data Science Lab of ETH ZĂĽrich. Her work is at the intersection of data science, smart sensor technology, and neurology.
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Dr Keira Tranter
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
The University Of Sydney

Implementation strategies improve physiotherapists’ adherence to guideline recommendations for the provision of inspiratory muscle training (IMT) for people with spinal cord injury: a pre-post study.

11:30 - 11:45

Biography

Keira Tranter is a physiotherapist (PhD) with over 18 years clinical experience in the area of spinal cord injuries. She is a sessional academic at both The University of Sydney and Macquarie University, teaching physiotherapy management for people with SCI and other neurological conditions. Keira has recently completed her PhD which focused on the translation of physiotherapy evidence into practice to improve health outcomes for people with SCI. She is now a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the John Walsh Centre for Rehabilitation Research, The University of Sydney. Her research continues to focus on the translation of best practice for physiotherapy management for people with SCI and other health conditions.
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Prof Mary Galea
Professorial Fellow
The University of Melbourne

Peripheral nerve pathology after spinal cord injury.

11:45 - 12:00

Biography

Prof Mary Galea is a physiotherapist and neuroscientist whose research in basic and clinical neuroscience has contributed to understanding the development and organisation of the motor system and its recovery from injury following nervous system disorders, including spinal cord injury, stroke, and multiple sclerosis.
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Dr Gabi Mueller-Verbiest
Group Leader
Swiss Paraplegic Research

Development of reference equations for the in- and expiratory muscle strength of persons with spinal cord injury during initial inpatient rehabilitation

12:00 - 12:15

Biography

After a master degree in movement sciences at the Swiss Institute of Technology, Zurich, Gabi Mueller finished a PhD in medical sciences at the Institute of Integrative Physiology at the Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands (Prof. Maria Hopman) in 2008. She then worked as senior researcher at the Clinical Trial Unit of the Swiss Paraplegic Centre in Nottwil, Switzerland until the end of 2022. Since 2023 she works as group leader of the respiratory research group at the Swiss Paraplegic Research in Nottwil Switzerland. Her research area mainly includes nutrition, exercise and respiratory physiology after spinal cord injury. The main topic of the respiratory research program of her group is prevention of pneumonia after SCI. Gabi Mueller is a member of the ISCOS SIG group nutrition.
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Mr Christian Schuld
Research Associate
Heidelberg University Hospital

Sensory recovery profiles after traumatic or ischemic Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)

12:15 - 12:30

Biography

Researcher since 2005. Interested in recovery, rehabilitation including the improvement of walking function after SCI and the ISNCSCI.
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