Tuesday, August 26, 2008

8:00 a.m.–8:45 a.m.

Welcome and Registration

8:45 a.m.–10:10 a.m.

Plenary Sessions

10:10 a.m.–10:30 a.m.

Break and Poster Viewing

 

10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

 

Track 1—ICF and Participation

  • Applying the ICF at a Children’s Rehabilitation Centre to Enhance the Participation of Children and Youth With Chronic Conditions and Disabilities (Presenter: Janette McDougall, Thames Valley Children’s Centre and University of Ontario; London, Ontario, Canada)
  • Functioning, Disability and Participation in Children With Brain Tumour: A Pilot Study With ICF-CY (Co-Presenters: Matilde Leonardi and Milda Cerniauskaite, European Brain Council—WHO Liaison; Milan, Italy)
  • Using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) to Reveal the Participation Aspirations of Middle-Aged and Older Adults Who Are Receiving Power Mobility Devices (Presenter: Claudine Auger, Research Centre, Institut universitaire de gériatrie de Montréal; Montréal, Quebec, Canada)

Track 2—ICF in the Environment

  • Constructing Receptive Environments (Presenter: David Gray, Occupational Therapy Program, Washington University School of Medicine; St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.)
  • Identifying an Improved Measure of Participation: A Methodology Implemented in a Population With Spinal Cord Injury (Presenter: Gale Whiteneck, Craig Hospital; Englewood, Colorado, U.S.)
  • Measuring Social Participation: An Australian Perspective
    (Co-Presenters: Catherine Sykes, WHO-FIC Functioning and Disability Reference Group, World Confederation for Physical Therapy, and Ros Madden, WHO-FIC Functioning and Disability Reference Group, University of Sydney; Yarralumina, A.C.T., Australia)

  • Environmental Factors as Barriers to Participation
    (Presenter: Cheryl Swanson, Centre of National Research on Disability and Rehabilitation Medicine [CONROD], Mayne Medical School, University of Queensland; Herston, Queensland, Australia)

12:00 p.m.–1:45 p.m.

Lunch and Poster Viewing

 

1:45 p.m.–3:45 p.m.

Track 3—Patient-Reported Outcomes and the ICF

  • Aligning the Domain Frameworks of PROMIS and the ICF (Presenter: Jin-Shei Lai, Center on Outcomes Research and Education, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare; Evanston, Illinois, U.S.)
  • Developing “Human Functioning and Rehabilitation Research” From the Comprehensive Perspective (Presenter: Gerold Stucki, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University Hospital Munich; Munich, Germany)
  • Identifying Candidates ICF Categories for the Generic ICF Core Set (Presenter: Alarcos Cieza, Institute for Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, ICF Research Branch of WHO CC FIC [DIMDI], Ludwig-Maximilian University; Munich, Germany)
  • The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health as the conceptual and metric reference for PROs
    (Presenter: Alarcos Cieza, Institute for Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, ICF Research Branch of WHO CC FIC (DIMDI), Ludwig-Maximilian University; Munich, Germany)
  • Interpreting the ICF and PROMIS Frameworks
    (Presenter:  Nenad Kostanjsek, World Health Organization, Classification and Terminology; Geneva, Switzerland)

Track 4—Activities and Participation

  • A Conceptual and Practical Solution for Differentiating Activity and Participation in the ICF (Presenter: Gale Whiteneck, Craig Hospital; Englewood, Colorado, U.S.)
  • Enhancing the Conceptual Clarity of the Activity and Participation Components of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (Presenter: Elizabeth Badley, Division of Health Care & Outcomes Research, Toronto Western Research Institute; Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

3:45 p.m.–4:05 p.m.

Break and Poster Viewing

4:05 p.m.–6:05 p.m.

Track 5—What Are Occupational Therapists Learning About Social Participation in Using the ICF?

  • Overview of Applications of the ICF in Occupational Therapy Practice (Presenter: Lynn Shaw, Faculty of Health Sciences,  School of Occupational Therapy, University of Western Ontario; London, Ontario, Canada)
  • A Comparison of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health to the Disability Tax Credit (Presenter:  Nora Fayed, School of Rehabilitation Services, McMaster University; Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)
  • Social Participation Predictors for Older Adults With Physical Disabilities (Presenter: Mélanie Levasseur, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Research Centre on Aging, Université de Sherbrooke; Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada) 
  • How the ICF Shapes the Work of an Occupational Therapist on a Daily Basis (Presenter: Kim Hewitt, Early Psychosis Intervention Program, Canadian Mental Health Association: Barrie, Ontario, Canada)
  • Coding Cases Using the ICF: The Inter-Rater Reliability of Occupational Therapists (Presenter: Susan Stark, Occupational Therapy Program, Washington University School of Medicine; St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.)

 
Track 6—Surveys and Data: Building From the ICF

  • The Office for Disability Issues (HRSDC): The ICF Framework and Development of PALS (Presenter: Laura Macpherson, Office for Disability Issues, HRSDC; Gatineau, Quebec, Canada)
  • The 2006 Participation Activity Limitation Survey (PALS): Overview, Latest Results, Small Area Estimation and Factors Affecting Successful Labour Market Outcomes (Co-Presenters: Susan Stobert and Andrew MacKenzie, Statistics Canada; Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
  • ICF and Employment Success Facilitators (Presenter:  Alexander Shaw, Canadian National Institute for the Blind; Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
  • The ICF as an Organizing Framework for Inpatient Rehabilitation Data and Information? (Presenter: Ian Joiner, Canadian Institute for Health Information; Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)

 

7:00 p.m.–12:00 a.m.

 

RI Conference Gala Dinner

 

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

8:45 a.m.–10:10 a.m.

Plenary Sessions

10:10 a.m.–10:30 a.m.

Break and Poster Viewing

10:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Track 7—Core Sets

  • The Information Obtained From Clinical Ratings of the Comprehensive ICF Core Set for OA Can Be Integrated Into a Cross-Cultural Clinical Measure of Functioning (Presenter: Alarcos Cieza, Institute for Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, ICF Research Branch of WHO CC FIC [DIMDI], Ludwig-Maximilian University;  Munich, Germany) 
  • Patient Goals in Early Post-Acute Geriatric Rehabilitation—Is Attainment of Goals an Indicator for an Improvement in Overall Functioning? (Presenter: Gerold Stucki,  Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University Hospital Munich; Munich, Germany)
  • Simple Clinical Ratings of Relevant ICF Categories Can Be Aggregated Into Scales Tailored to Patients’ Problems (Presenter: Gerold Stucki, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University Hospital Munich; Munich, Germany)

Track 8—Creating Synergies for Developing ICF “Personal Factors”

  • Personal Factors in the Literature: A Systematic Review (Presenter: Szilvia Geyh, Swiss Paraplegic Research; Nottwil, Switzerland)
  • ICF Linking Rules: Identifying Personal Factors (Presenter: Szilvia Geyh, Swiss Paraplegic Research; Nottwil, Switzerland)
  • Why Are Personal Factors Crucial to the ICF Model and Is There a Difference Between Environmental and Personal Contextual Factors? (Presenter: Elizabeth Badley, Division of Health Care & Outcomes Research, Toronto Western Research Institute; Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
  • Participation and Contextual Factors: Refining/Revising the ICF (Presenter: Rune J. Simeonsson, University of North Carolina and Jönköping University; Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.)

12:00 p.m.–1:45 p.m.

Lunch and Poster Viewing

1:45 p.m.–3:45 p.m.

Track 9—Core Sets

  • The Generic and the Condition-Specific ICF Core Sets: From the Methodology to Develop Them to Their Use in Clinical Practice and Research (Presenter: Alarcos Cieza, Institute for Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, ICF Research Branch of WHO CC FIC [DIMDI], Ludwig-Maximilian University; Munich, Germany)

  • Validation of the Comprehensive ICF Core Set for Rheumatoid Arthritis: The Perspective of Nurses (Presenter: Alarcos Cieza, Institute for Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, ICF Research Branch of WHO CC FIC [DIMDI], Ludwig-Maximilian University; Munich, Germany )
  • Interrater Reliability of the Extended ICF Core Set for Stroke Applied by Physical Therapists (Presenter: Gerold Stucki,  Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University Hospital Munich; Munich, Germany)

 

Track 10—Applications of ICF

  • Mapping the Cognitive Support Technology Predisposition Assessment (CST PA) to the ICF (Presenter: Marcia J. Scherer, Institute for Matching Person & Technology; Webster, New York, U.S.)
  • Comparing the Daily Lives of Community Mental Health Clients in the U.S. and Serbia Using the ICF (Presenter: Bryan P. McCormick, Indiana University; Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.)
  • Using the ICF to Understand the Challenges in Community Reintegration of Injured Military Service Members (Presenter: Linda J. Resnik, Providence Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center; Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.)
  • ICF-Based Cost-Effectiveness Analyses (Presenter: Ingrid Schraner, Social Justice and Social Change Research Centre and School of Economics and Finance, University of Western Sydney; Penrith D.C., N.S.W., Australia)
  • Participation and Social Integration of Patients With Psychiatric Disorder: A Pilot Study With ICF (Presenter: Matilde Leonardi and Milda Cerniauskaite, European Brain Council—WHO Liaison;  Milan, Italy)

4:10 p.m.–4:30 p.m.

RI Closing Plenary Session

 

Note: Program is subject to change.