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2024 VIC Branch Winter Breakfast

Join us at the annual VIC Branch Winter Breakfast.

Our keynote speaker, Katie Davies, will be presenting 'The importance of physiotherapy involvement with concussion management'.

Over the last 10 years community awareness of concussion has rapidly intensified as has the understanding that this condition can be managed. Physiotherapists can play a key role in identifying concussion and rehabilitating people with persistent symptoms following a concussion.

Concussion is seen across many fields of physiotherapy such as sports, paediatrics, gerontology, trauma, emergency departments, neurology and community. Concussion requires a unique set of skills both hands on impairment management and management of the wider person within a multidisciplinary team.

This presentation will cover the condition of concussion including pathophysiology and impairments. It will touch on rehabilitation and management.

Overall it will highlight the importance of the physiotherapist role and how we as a profession should be involved in the concussion timeline as well as research.

Panel discussion

A panel discussion will follow the presentation. Joining Katie on the panel are:
- Dr Michael Makdissi, Sports & Exercise Physician
- Prof Vicki Anderson, Neuro-psychologist - Director, Clinical Sciences Research, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
- Kate Simkovic

Registration information:

Registration for this event is now CLOSED.

To be placed on the waitlist, email vic.pd@australian.physio

2024 Branch Awards

The Branch Awards will be presented at the breakfast. These awards are a great opportunity to both recognise and celebrate the contributions Victorian physiotherapists have made to the profession and/or Association.

Further information on nominating – including nomination questions and criteria, can be found via this link www.surveymonkey.com/r/2024VicBranchAwards or email rose.horvat@australian.physio.

Note: This is a face-to-face event. It is not being recorded or livestreamed.

Event timetable:
6.30am - 7.00am: registration and networking
7.00am - 9.00am: presentation and breakfast
9.00am - 9.30am: networking

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Presenters

Katie Davies


Katie graduated from the University of Melbourne School of Physiotherapy in 2003 by which time she had already developed a love of and passion for the neurological field. She worked at The Royal Melbourne Hospital before travelling and living in London. London was where she further developed and deepened her skills within neurological rehabilitation and was introduced to vestibular management with a great group of colleagues. On return to Australia, she started working at Neurological Rehabilitation Group (NRG) the longest running neurological private practice in Victoria. Katie is now the principal physiotherapist. Since working at NRG Katie and the team of physiotherapists and exercise physiologists have built their vestibular and concussion service alongside the neurological service. Katie is passionate about providing an outstanding care with skilled clinicians who love their job. She has a varied load of clinical work, management, research and teaching. Katie holds an honorary appointment at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) where she is involved in a multidisciplinary paediatric concussion research program. She also has an honorary role at the Turner Institute, Monash University where she is an associate investigator on the iRecover study investigating concussion recovery in adults. She often consults to elite sports groups and has experience managing athletes from a variety of sporting codes. She presents on the topic of concussion widely and has designed a two-day concussion management course for physiotherapists. She was a key contributor to the Australian Institute of Sport with their recent concussion guidelines and physiotherapy recommendations.

Vicki Anderson


Prof Anderson is a neuropsychologist, working across clinical, research and academic sectors. She is Director, Clinical Sciences Research, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, and a University of Melbourne Professorial Fellow. She is an NHMRC Investigator Fellow, and a Director of the Board of the Concussion in Sport group.Her clinical and research work addresses improving outcomes from child brain disorders. Her research team, Brain and Mind, has established the vulnerability of the young brain to injury and identified factors contributing to resilience and vulnerability. She has trialled and implemented the knowledge generated by her team into numerous digital and online interventions to improve child outcomes: i) Test of Everyday Attention for Children (PearsonPub), used across the world to phenotype attention; ii) SignPosts & Take a Breath: e-health parenting and parent mental health interventions to optimize family environment; iii) PEERS, novel, iPad delivered assessment for social competence (patented); iv) HeadCheck, ChildSCAT and ChildSCOAT, digital health tools for diagnosis, monitoring and management of child concussion symptoms (partners with the AFL; Int Consensus on Sports Concussion [CISG]); v) co-author of the first-international child sports concussion guidelines (CISG).Prof Anderson has 600+ publications, 6 books, and $52 million in competitive research funds to her credit and honours/awards including the Lifetime Research Achievement Award, International Neuropsychological Society (2023), Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences of Australia, Aust Psychol Soc, Aust Acad Health & Medical Scientists. She is a founding board member of the Int Paediatric Brain Injury Assoc, board member, Int Brain Injury Assoc, and a recent past president of the International Neuropsychological Society.

Michael Makdissi


Michael Makdissi is a consultant Sport and Exercise Medicine Physician (Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre, Melbourne, Australia) and the Chief Medical Officer at the Australian Football League (AFL). He has previously worked with a range of sports at National and International levels. He has been part of the Australian medical team at the Commonwealth Games (Delhi, Glasgow, Gold Coast, Birmingham) and Olympic Games (London). Michael has a strong clinical and research interest in sport-related concussion and is an honorary research fellow at La Trobe University Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine (La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia). He was a member of the Scientific Committee for the 6th International Conference on Concussion in Sport.His other current roles include player medical services at the Australian Open Tennis Tournament, honorary member of the Australian Rugby Union Concussion Advisory Group, Concussion Consultant for World Rugby and the English Premier League, honorary member of the Australian Commonwealth Games Medical Services and a member of the associate editors of the British Journal of Sports Medicine.

Kate Simkovic


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Presenters

Katie Davies


Katie graduated from the University of Melbourne School of Physiotherapy in 2003 by which time she had already developed a love of and passion for the neurological field. She worked at The Royal Melbourne Hospital before travelling and living in London. London was where she further developed and deepened her skills within neurological rehabilitation and was introduced to vestibular management with a great group of colleagues. On return to Australia, she started working at Neurological Rehabilitation Group (NRG) the longest running neurological private practice in Victoria. Katie is now the principal physiotherapist. Since working at NRG Katie and the team of physiotherapists and exercise physiologists have built their vestibular and concussion service alongside the neurological service. Katie is passionate about providing an outstanding care with skilled clinicians who love their job. She has a varied load of clinical work, management, research and teaching. Katie holds an honorary appointment at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI) where she is involved in a multidisciplinary paediatric concussion research program. She also has an honorary role at the Turner Institute, Monash University where she is an associate investigator on the iRecover study investigating concussion recovery in adults. She often consults to elite sports groups and has experience managing athletes from a variety of sporting codes. She presents on the topic of concussion widely and has designed a two-day concussion management course for physiotherapists. She was a key contributor to the Australian Institute of Sport with their recent concussion guidelines and physiotherapy recommendations.


Vicki Anderson


Prof Anderson is a neuropsychologist, working across clinical, research and academic sectors. She is Director, Clinical Sciences Research, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, and a University of Melbourne Professorial Fellow. She is an NHMRC Investigator Fellow, and a Director of the Board of the Concussion in Sport group.Her clinical and research work addresses improving outcomes from child brain disorders. Her research team, Brain and Mind, has established the vulnerability of the young brain to injury and identified factors contributing to resilience and vulnerability. She has trialled and implemented the knowledge generated by her team into numerous digital and online interventions to improve child outcomes: i) Test of Everyday Attention for Children (PearsonPub), used across the world to phenotype attention; ii) SignPosts & Take a Breath: e-health parenting and parent mental health interventions to optimize family environment; iii) PEERS, novel, iPad delivered assessment for social competence (patented); iv) HeadCheck, ChildSCAT and ChildSCOAT, digital health tools for diagnosis, monitoring and management of child concussion symptoms (partners with the AFL; Int Consensus on Sports Concussion [CISG]); v) co-author of the first-international child sports concussion guidelines (CISG).Prof Anderson has 600+ publications, 6 books, and $52 million in competitive research funds to her credit and honours/awards including the Lifetime Research Achievement Award, International Neuropsychological Society (2023), Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences of Australia, Aust Psychol Soc, Aust Acad Health & Medical Scientists. She is a founding board member of the Int Paediatric Brain Injury Assoc, board member, Int Brain Injury Assoc, and a recent past president of the International Neuropsychological Society.


Michael Makdissi


Michael Makdissi is a consultant Sport and Exercise Medicine Physician (Olympic Park Sports Medicine Centre, Melbourne, Australia) and the Chief Medical Officer at the Australian Football League (AFL). He has previously worked with a range of sports at National and International levels. He has been part of the Australian medical team at the Commonwealth Games (Delhi, Glasgow, Gold Coast, Birmingham) and Olympic Games (London). Michael has a strong clinical and research interest in sport-related concussion and is an honorary research fellow at La Trobe University Centre for Sport and Exercise Medicine (La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia). He was a member of the Scientific Committee for the 6th International Conference on Concussion in Sport.His other current roles include player medical services at the Australian Open Tennis Tournament, honorary member of the Australian Rugby Union Concussion Advisory Group, Concussion Consultant for World Rugby and the English Premier League, honorary member of the Australian Commonwealth Games Medical Services and a member of the associate editors of the British Journal of Sports Medicine.


Kate Simkovic



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