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Preventing falls and their consequences for people with MS - Thursday, 6th October - UL
Update from the International MS Falls Prevention Research Network. Falls prevention talk being hosted in UL by prof. Susan Coote
- Background and overview of the Network to date’ – Susan Coote, PhD, Department of Clinical Therapies, University of Limerick
- Fall risk in MS: environmental, activity-related and behavioural influences’ – Elizabeth W. Peterson, PhD, OTR/L, FAOTA, Dept of Occupational Therapy, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Falls prevention interventions’ – Johanna Jonsdottir, ScD, MS PT, Fondazione Don Gnocchi, Milano, Italy
- Developing MS falls programmes for the real world’ – Hilary Gunn, PhD, School of Health Professions, Plymouth University
This October Prof Susan Coote and her team will be hosting a meeting of this exciting research network at UL. On Thursday 6th October at 4.00 PM in the Health Science building in UL there will be a free open lecture for health care professionals and researchers during which the network members will give an update on our latest research including a Q & A session.
All welcome.
Please register your interest in attending by sending an e-mail to Gillian.Quinn@ul.ie
This meeting is supported by a New Foundations grant from the Irish Research Council