Events
Apr
AusACPDM Listening and Sharing session: April 2025
The hope of unproven therapies:
Healthcare professionals’ experiences of patient & family enquiries
Join us in our free listening and sharing session.
30th April 2025, 4:00pm – 5:00pm Australian Eastern Standard Time
Topic information: Healthcare professionals are increasingly approached by consumers seeking advice on unproven online therapies. In this session we will discuss the experiences of healthcare providers, the complexities involved and explore opportunities on how to navigate and respond to these enquiries.
Speakers: Leanne Rees is a physiotherapist and post-doctoral research officer at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. She is investigating how healthcare professionals navigate patient’s and family’s therapeutic hopes in the online age.
The session will be facilitated by: Stacey Cleary
Date: 30 April - 30 April
Location: Zoom, Register for the link
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Save the Date. IAACD / EACD Conference in Heidelberg (Germany), June 24th-28th 2025.
The combined congress of the European Academy together with the International Alliance of Academies of Childhood Disability (EACD-IAACD) will take place from Tuesday 24th June to Saturday 28th June, 2025, in Heidelberg, Germany. This will be a hybrid conference, held onsite at the new Heidelberg Congress Centre and will also be supported by 24 hour-online live sessions. This event is a rare global event of multiple professional groups focusing on the research, clinical care and support for individuals with childhood-onset disabilities. People with lived experience, families and stakeholders will be actively involved.
Keep up to date through the website and social media. In the next few weeks there will be weekly video clips from around the world with over 70 interviews with professionals and persons with lived experiences, caregivers and stakeholders talking about their views, challenges and wishes in the field of child-onset disabilities.
Date: 24 June - 28 June
Location: Heidelberg Congress Center, HD Hauptbahnhof Süd, Heidelberg, Germany
Register nowMar
13th AusACPDM Biennial Conference
We are pleased to announce that the next AusACPDM Biennial Conference will be held in Hobart, Tasmania, 3-7 March 2026.
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More information and announcements are to follow.
Date: 3 March - 7 March
Location: Hobart, Tasmania
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