Thursday, 4th September Australian and New Zealand Stroke Organisation Conference 2025

Start the day in your running shoes and join the Stride for Stroke Fun Run where you can have a friendly battle with peers for a Trophy!

• Post-Stroke Cognitive Screening & follow up with the Oxford Cognitive Screen - Nele Demeyere

• Blood Pressure, Pregnancy, and Stroke in Women of Childbearing Age - Cheryl Bushnell

• The Evolving Role of AI in Stroke - Gregory Albers

Lauren Christie - Shortlisted for Oral Award

• MSU-Telemedicine trial: Innovation in design and clinical outcomes - Hannah Johns and Anna Balabanski
• Improving access to the win ratio by developing a clinician-accessible, one-stop-shop tool for sample size estimation and analysis - Hannah Johns
• Review of adaptive platform trials in stroke. - Kate Hayward
• A systematic scoping review of early-phase stroke trials testing multidimensional pharmacological, non-pharmaceutical behavioural, and device-based interventions - Odkhishig Ganbold
• Adaptive clinical trial designs through the eyes of a clinician - Timothy Kleinig
• Stroke survivor preferences for the delivery of constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT) programs: A discrete choice experiment - Lauren J Christie
• Should mean- or percentile-based methods be used for the meta-analysis of process-of-care time measures in hyperacute stroke?       - Dominic Italiano
• Confidence based trials - Freda Werdiger

Dana Wong - Shortlisted for Consumer Award

Upendranatha Reddy Potturi - Shortlisted for Oral Award

Kennice Tan - Shortlisted for Poster Award

• Sexuality and intimacy after stroke   - William Kokay
• Co-designing a psychoeducation package to enhance psychosocial wellbeing for young adults living with stroke   - Dana Wong
• Understanding Meaningful Participation After Stroke: A Qualitative Systematic Review   - Upendranatha Reddy Potturi
• The impact of yoga-based mindfulness intervention on brain volumes in survivors of stroke: evidence from the SASS feasibility trial - Tharshanah Thayabaranathan
• Anxiety and depression post-stroke: the role of cognition, age, ethnicity and disability.  - Lily Yee
• Prevalence of unmet needs of stroke survivors in the community and associated factors: A systematic review and meta-analysis - Kennice Tan
• Exploring unmet needs and predictors of quality of life and return to work in young stroke survivors - Michaela Grech
• Three-year update on Australia’s Young Stroke Service - Nadja Korajkic
• Supporting clinical decision making for driving after stroke - Hayley Scott

Sabine Allida - Shortlisted for Consumer Award

Kim Nguyen - Shortlisted for Oral Award

• Advanced lipid lowering - Andrew Wong
• Waist circumference trajectories from childhood to adulthood and vascular health in mid-adulthood: findings from the Childhood Determinants of Adult Health Study  - Kim Nguyen
• Age and sex related trends in the use of primary prevention medications before stroke (2007-2019) - Catherine Burns
• Exploring how people from diverse cultural and language backgrounds prevent cardiovascular disease and stroke: A focus group study - Sabine Allida
• Evaluating changes in diet components in the PERKS-international trial. - Shabnam Jalili-Moghaddam
• Co-design process of developing a massive open online course for primary stoke prevention: ‘Preventing Stroke’ MOOC - Aastha A.G Gurung
• Novel atherosclerotic risk factors in CVD - Mark Nelson
• PFO Management - Brian Chambers

Chloe Mutimer - Shortlisted for Poster Award

• What is known about the use of self-directed, or carer-assisted, digital resources in an inpatient rehabilitation setting after stroke: a scoping review.  - Dina Pogrebnoy
• Experience with E-simulation as a training tool for telestroke - Susan Meredith
• Stroke Clinical Documentation Education Program: Pilot study results - Anna Ranta
• Five years of the Australia and New Zealand Stroke Coding Working Group - Monique F Kilkenny
• Initial cerebrovascular event as a predictor of recurrence in Moyamoya Angiopathy: A study from Auckland, New Zealand - Ann M Anson
• Intraventricular haemorrhage growth is associated with poor functional outcomes in primary intracerebral haemorrhage - Chloe A Mutimer

• EVACUATE - Timothy Kleinig
• UPLIFT - Kate Hayward
• Fit 4 Me After Stroke - Natalie Fini
• AVERT-DOSE - Fiona Ellery
• TOSCCAA-TXA - Oshi Swarup
• EXTEND-IA DNase - Bruce Campbell
• POST-ETERNAL - Bruce Campbell
• EAST-STROKE - Bruce Campbell
• EXTEND-AGNES TNK - Felix Ng
• ECHOES-AF - Zien Zhou
• I-CATCHER - Menglu Ouyang
• ASPIRING - Jan Ho
• QASC Australasia - Oyebola Fasugba
• CASPER - Carlos Garcia‐Esperon

Title: Transcranial Doppler Bubble Study using Doppler Box

Speakers: Jo Leech, Neurodiagnostics Laboratory Manager at Austin Health, Melbourne.

Transcranial Doppler (TCD) ultrasound has emerged as a valuable non-invasive tool to detect PFO and is listed in the guidelines.

TCD is a non-invasive ultrasound technique for real-time, dynamic monitoring of cerebral blood flow in major intracranial arteries with high temporal resolution. It uses low-frequency (≤2 MHz) ultrasound waves to penetrate the skull and detect the Doppler shift of moving red blood cells in cerebral vessels. The key parameters measured include mean flow velocity, pulsatility index, and detection of microembolic signals (MES). TCD has higher sensitivity than Transthoracic echo (TTE) for embolus detection and can provide a safe, less invasive alternative for detection of right-to-left shunt.

Title: Insights on anti-amyloid-b monoclonal antibodies for stroke physicians  

The recent registration of the first disease modifying therapies for Alzheimer’s disease is an exciting milestone for patients and physicians, but every new breakthrough does come with risks - in this case, Amyloid Related Imaging Abnormalities (ARIA), a new stroke mimic. Join this symposium to discuss what implications this new class of medications has for stroke physicians.

Speakers: Speakers: Prof Nawaf Yassi.

Ann Anson - Shortlisted for Poster Award

• Prediction of haematoma expansion - Chloe Mutimer
• Update on minimally invasive surgery approaches - Amal Abou-Hamden
• Systematic review and meta-analysis of minimally invasive compared to standard pterional approach for surgical clipping of ruptured and unruptured Cerebral Aneurysms - Laure Taher Mansour
• Persistent neurological deficit after elective repair of unruptured intracranial aneurysms: associations and impact on functional recovery - Evan Urquhart
• Demographics, clinical features and outcomes of patients with moyamoya angiopathy in Auckland, New Zealand - Ann M Anson
• Management of acute intracerebral haemorrhage at a Melbourne primary stroke centre from 2020 to 2023 - Samuel P Spanidis
• BP Management in ICH - Xia Wang
• CAA diagnosis and management - Oshi Swarup

Natalie Fini - Shortlisted for Oral Award

• Prognosticating mobility after stroke - Marie-Claire Smith
• A systematic review of early neuroimaging and neurophysiological biomarkers of long-term mobility recovery post-stroke. - Cristina Levy
• From guidelines to practice: a global survey of healthcare professional’s educational needs for delivering physical activity programs post-stroke - Natalie A. Fini
• Communication Partner Training (CPT) in stroke services: A national survey investigating current practice, implementation barriers and training preferences. - Kirstine Shrubsole
• Quantifying the direct and indirect effects of somatosensory impairment on arm use in stroke survivors: An exploratory path analysis. - Sarah Steinfort
• The Oxford Cognitive Screen (OCS-AU): Validation of a Stroke-Specific Cognitive Screening Tool - Rene Stolwyk
• Understanding life after stroke: A systematic review of rehabilitation interventions to improve leisure participation. - Serena Alves-Stein
• No rehab audit! What now? - Kelvin Hill

• AI-guided echocardiography for remote Australians - Angus Baumann
• Impact of an outpatient telestroke clinic rural network: a 6-year experience. - Octavio Garcia Silva
• Impact of a regional Telestroke Inpatient Service in Victoria and Tasmania. - Joosup Kim
• EVT in a regional setting - Ramon Martin Banez
• Time of transfer for endovascular clot retrieval for regional stroke patients. - Emily McQuie
• A simple reward and recognition project can improve door to needle times in a rural regional hospital. - Donna N Jay
• Delivering stroke simulation training using a modified tag-team approach in a regional telestroke service setting. - Martin N M Punter
• Establishing a stroke service in Alice Springs - Anna Holwell

• Perioperative findings in moyamoya angiopathy patients undergoing non-revascularisation surgery - Karim Mahawish
• Unveiling gender disparities in cerebrovascular accident outcomes:a retrospective analysis - Anjali Katyara
• Anti-platelet therapy for secondary stroke prevention in the context of acute on chronic gastrointestinal bleeding - Peter SW SW Park
• Secondary prevention by striking the balance in 24-hour movement behaviour by empowering people at risk with a stroke: protocol of RISE intervention randomised controlled trial - Camille F.M. Biemans
• Increasing physical activity after stroke with support of a carer: Conversation from a World Café. - Emelyn Jovic
• Treatment of stroke recurrence in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy with Tranexamic Acid (TOSCCAA-TXA): A phase 2 double-blinded randomised controlled clinical trial (Study Protocol).  - Oshi Swarup

• Left atrial appendage occlusion and breakthrough stroke - David Seiffge
• Debate: Cardiac CT should be added to the hyperacute stroke phase to identify intracardiac thrombus - Carlos Garcia‐Esperon and Teddy Wu
• ECG-Gated cardiac computed tomography in hyperacute stroke. - Rahul Pradhan
• Stroke incidence rates in atrial fibrillation patients resident in Auckland: A retrospective cohort study - Karim Mahawish
• Systematic review and meta-analysis of risk of cardiac outcomes following embolic stroke of undetermined source - Nathalie Launder
• Evaluation of point of care ultrasound (POCUS) device for transcranial Doppler (TCD) patent foramen ovale (PFO) testing - Brian Chambers
• Clinical utility of non-cardiac gated CT stroke protocol with left atrial appendage   - Shilpan G Patel

• Darak - Australian Stroke Alliance - Angela Dos Santos
• Community-led outcomes in stroke prevention - Liam Guy
• Trends in stroke incidence among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Western Australians – did Closing-the-Gap policies make a difference? - Judy Katzenellenbogen
• Reducing the traumatic nature of stroke: The importance of communication and connection  - Felicity Bright
• Moyamoya disease in a novel pacific and māori cohort - Shilpan G Patel
• Rehabilitation and recovery after stroke in Aboriginal communities in Western Australia - Erin Godecke
• Decolonising health care - Jen Evans

Julie Morrison - Shortlisted for Consumer Award

Serah Kalpakavadi - Shortlisted for Poster Award

• National approaches to linked data to understand the burden of stroke in Australia - Heidi Dietz
• The national clinical quality stroke registry program to support improvements in acute stroke care: progress update. - Dominique Cadilhac
• Use of registry data to drive improvements in acute stroke care: Insights from the Australian Stroke Clinical Registry - Julie L Morrison
• Stroke research funding versus burden of disease (World Stroke Organisation funded STARBUD Project) - Rita Krishnamurthi
• Incidence of stroke in Victoria and New South Wales - Joosup Kim
• Characterising incident pneumonia after ischaemic stroke and associated risk factors: A population-based study using linked data - Lachlan Dalli
• Identification of in-hospital stroke episodes and the preceding associated hospital admission diagnoses using administrative data   - Serah Kalpakavadi
• International Network for Standardised Population Insights and Real-world Evidence for Stroke (INSPIRE-STROKE)  - Monique F. Kilkenny

• Comparison of rehabilitation interventions provided between inpatient and bed substitution programs to address self-care goals after stroke. - Natasha A Lannin
• Mapping the role of somatosensation in arm function across the continuum. From somatosensation to sensorimotor function, arm use and participation after stroke. A scoping review. - Sarah Steinfort
• Lessons learned from a trial examining community, group-based education for the management of post-stroke fatigue: the FASTER trial - Sulekha Devaki De Silva
• Association between frailty status and antidepressant prescription among older stroke survivors - Sabine Allida
• Frailty and advance care planning in older adults with stroke - Caleb Ferguson

The Conference dinner will be held at the iconic PW1 on Hobart’s stunning waterfront. Enjoy a three-course dinner showcasing local flavours, accompanied by premium drinks and live music to set the perfect mood.