Oral Presentations 5
Tracks
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)
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 - 11:15Biography
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.
Melina Giagiozis
PhD Student
University Hospital Balgrist
Impact of descending and ascending tract damage on mobility after spinal cord injury
11:15 - 11:30Biography
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.
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 - 11:45Biography
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.
Prof Mary Galea
Professorial Fellow
The University of Melbourne
Peripheral nerve pathology after spinal cord injury.
11:45 - 12:00Biography
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.
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 - 12:15Biography
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.
Mr Christian Schuld
Research Associate
Heidelberg University Hospital
Sensory recovery profiles after traumatic or ischemic Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)
12:15 - 12:30Biography
Researcher since 2005. Interested in recovery, rehabilitation including the improvement of walking function after SCI and the ISNCSCI.
