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Location: Scottish Event Campus (SEC), Glasgow
Date: Thursday 18th September 2025

This free event is for everyone affected by brain injury, offering two spaces for all attendees:  a Professional Space for healthcare providers to engage with experts, share insights, and earn CPD points, and a Supportive Space for individuals and families to access support, information, and resources.

Join us for this exciting event that brings together:

  • Professionals & individuals with lived experience of brain injury

  • World-renowned speakers sharing expertise and insights

  • Opportunities to earn CPD points for your professional development

  • Invaluable information from organisations supporting brain injury recovery

  • Networking opportunities with service providers and support networks.

 

Register your place below:

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CONFIRMED SO FAR

PROFESSIONAL SPACE

Facilitators

PRESENTATIONS - morning

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Professor Liam Dorris

NHS Consultant Paediatric Neuropsychologist, Royal Hospital for Children Glasgow, and Honorary Professor, University of Glasgow

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Chris Barrett

Consultant Neurosurgeon, Institute of Neurological Sciences, Glasgow, Scotland

Speakers

PRESENTATIONS - morning

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Dr Marie Spiers

Paediatric Emergency Medicine Consultant RHCG, Joint Clinical Lead for Paediatric Trauma WoS, STAG Clinical Lead RHCG

PRESENTATIONS - morning

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Professor Jonathan Evans

Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology and Programme Director for the Clinical Neuropsychology training programme at the University of Glasgow

PRESENTATIONS - morning

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Dr Sarah Rudebeck

Senior Clinical Psychologist, King’s College Hospital London

PRESENTATIONS - morning

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Michael Canty

Consultant Paediatric and Adult Neurosurgeon, Royal Hospital for Children and the Institute of Neurological Sciences, Glasgow

PRESENTATIONS - morning

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Dr Suzanne Smith

Founder and Trustee of ICON: Babies cry, you can cope Charity and Independent Safeguarding Consultant

PRESENTATIONS - morning

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David Laraway

Craniomaxillofacial Surgeon and the OMF Trauma Lead at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow

SUPPORTIVE SPACE

Facilitator

PRESENTATIONS - morning

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Kay Forbes

Major Trauma Coordinator, West of Scotland Major Trauma Centre

Speakers

PRESENTATIONS - morning

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Dougas McAndrew

Senior Welfare Rights Manager, Digby Brown Solicitors

PRESENTATIONS - morning

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Colin Robertson, Michael Gowans, Nicholas Guest, Peter Kydd, Niall Menzies, and Evelyn Menzies

The HEADing to Everest Team, Headway Dundee & Angus, Headway Perth & Kinross and Headway East Lothian

PRESENTATIONS - morning

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Karen Muir

Counsellor in Brain Injury & Neurological Conditions, The Disabilities Trust

For further information about this event please email Kirsten.Smith@digbybrown.co.uk

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