Dr Eirini Kontou is hosting a lunchtime seminar at the Institute, with speaker Dana Wong, Associate Professor and Clinical Neuropsychologist in the School of Psychology and Public Health at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

This event is free, but does require you to register. Please use the button above to reserve your place. 

Talk title:

Clinical implementation of neuropsychological interventions

Brief abstract:

A range of evidence-based neuropsychological interventions are now available, including cognitive rehabilitation, psychological therapies adapted for people with cognitive impairment, and neuropsychological assessment feedback. However, these interventions are not consistently implemented into clinical practice. Dana will present a range of methods for enhancing clinical implementation of neuropsychological interventions, including identifying requisite clinical competencies and methods for training competent clinicians; evaluating implementation frameworks and using these to guide scale-up; and developing and implementing clinical practice guidelines.

Speaker bio:

Dana Wong is an Associate Professor and Clinical Neuropsychologist in the School of Psychology and Public Health at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. She leads the eNACT (Neurorehabilitation And Clinical Translation) Research Group, which focuses on innovative neurorehabilitation techniques to improve the lives of acquired brain injury survivors, and enhancing clinical implementation of and clinician competence in these evidence-based intervention techniques. She has published over 80 journal articles, several book chapters and a treatment manual. Dana is President of the Australasian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment and co-Chair of the Neuropsychological Intervention Special Interest Group of the International Neuropsychological Society.