Friday, 21st August Australian and New Zealand Stroke Organisation Conference 2026

• Nursing initiatives to improve quality of acute stroke care - Sandy Middleton
• First results of AVERT DOSE: a phase III, multi-arm, adaptive randomised trial to determine optimal early (<48 hr start) mobility training in patients with mild & moderate ischaemic stroke - Lilian B Carvalho
• Blood Pressure Variability during Early Mobility Training After Acute Ischaemic Stroke: secondary analysis from the AVERT DOSE Trial - Lilian B Carvalho
• More than a swallow test: why nurse education matters in acute stroke care - Tracy Gardiner
• Providing driving-related information after stroke: Experiences of survivors of stroke and health professionals   - Saran Chamberlain
• From pain to post-stroke fatigue: Translating a psychoeducation intervention using a co-designed, integrated knowledge translation approach - Stewart J Blackwell
• Portable brain scanners: an assessment of feasibility and integration into acute stroke workflow - Janindu Pahalawatta
• Cardio-oncology - cancer and stroke - Mohsen Habibian

Debate 3

Motion: Stenting Should Now Be the Default Over Endarterectomy for Carotid Arterial Stenosis: The Time Has Come

For: Greg Lock
Against: Nigel Pinto

Opening statements: 7 minutes each
Rebuttals: 1 minute each

• Neuroimaging and behavioural biomarkers of post-stroke recovery outcomes - Margaret Moore
• Stroke induces neutrophil reprogramming and drive infection susceptibility - Connie H Wong
• Enhancing motor training after stroke: A systematic review and meta-analysis of adjuvant interventions in translational studies - Madeleine J. Smith
• Factors associated with inpatient units experiencing frequent delays in stroke code activation for in-hospital stroke - Hiroyuki Kawano
• Interpretable artificial intelligence algorithms for stroke assessment using a bedside radiofrequency brain scanner - Michael Devlin
• The pasta matrix reaching task as a measure of engagement in preclinical stroke rehabilitation. - Madeleine J Smith
• Neuromodulation after stroke - Montana Samantzis
• Biomarkers for stroke - Joseph Moxon

• Recovery versus Compensation: What are the next questions?  - Gert Kwakkel
• 5 years in review: A systematic synthesis of stroke recovery and rehabilitation motor research - Emily J Dalton
• The clinical and cost effectiveness of the Stroke Action Falls rehabilitation program compared to usual care alone for Falls In Stroke Survivors: the FISS-Australia trial protocol   - Emmah Doig
• Impact of a program of aerobic exercise on brain derived neurotrophic factor in sub-acute stroke: a pilot RCT. - Christopher Peter Mackay
• Walking training does not improve self efficacy after stroke: a systematic review and meta analysis - Laura McCredie
• Impacts of intrapersonal and interpersonal factors on benefit finding and quality of life in younger stroke survivors - Lok Him (Jason) Yeung
• Rehabilitation in cell therapy clinical trials for ischaemic stroke: a systematic review - Xingyue He
• Implementation of a cardiovascular health telehealth coaching program for better stroke risk factor management: Work in Progress - Serah Kalpakavadi
• Platform trials and rehabilitation: Future directions - Kate Hayward

• Prediction - What it is and isn't? - Cristina Levy
• Opening the DOOR to Wins in stroke trials - Leonid Churilov
• Identifying personalised systolic blood pressure trajectories to inform blood pressure control in acute intracranial haemorrhage using an outcome-aware clustering approach - Shiming Zheng
• Not just a sniffle – the impact of respiratory viruses as triggers for stroke - Tu Q Nguyen
• A novel adaptive permuted block randomisation method for stroke trials - Nathalie H Launder
• An Evaluation of the Clinical Frailty Score and Modified Frailty Index in Clinical Outcomes for Intracerebral Haemorrhage. - Nicholas Shen
• Frequentist confidence-adaptive vs Bayesian optimal phase II design for dose-screening stroke trials. - Odkhishig Ganbold
• What do you want from your statistician, and how to make it happen? - Anna Balabanski
• What your statistician wants from you? - Hannah Johns

• Long-term incidence of stroke and dementia - William Whiteley

• Why do some recover differently to others? Unpacking person-related, biological and behavioural influences of recovery after stroke. - Lara Boyd

• Guidelines: What's new? - Bruce Campbell and Elizabeth Lynch

• The State of Play for Stroke Quality of Care Monitoring: opportunities and future directions - Richard Lindley

• MEASURES program: From Co-Design to Care Standards: Building the Evidence Base for Aphasia Quality Measurement - Sarah Wallace