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The 2009 UK Stroke Forum Conference took place 1-3 December 2009 at the SECC, Glasgow. The event was attended by over 1,600 participants.

All selected abstracts from the conference were published in The International Journal of Stroke and are available online at: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123193408/issue

Alternatively a PDF of the Book of Abstracts (full text copy)  is available here for download:
2009 Book of Abstracts 

A copy of the conference programme is also available:
2009 Conference Final Programme

The 2009 Conference report published in Stroke Matters is now available:
2009 Conference Report

The 2009 Conference was kindly supported by:

2009 Speaker presentations  

Conference presentations, where speakers have given their permission, can be viewed below, listed each day in alphabetical order of speaker surname. Some sessions are therefore missing. Unfortunately the UKSF is not able to provide hard copies of slides.

Tuesday 1 Dec 2009

British Association of Stroke Physicians (BASP) Training session
Margaret Roberts  Tues 1 Dec Stroke Medicine Training Update

Peter Sandercock  Tues 1 Dec Thrombolysis for over 80s

National Stroke Nursing Forum (NNSF)
& Scottish Stroke Nurse Forum Training session
Kerry Bloodworth  Tues 1 Dec Productive Ward

Anne Rowat  Tues 1 Dec Challenges in Delivering Food & Fluids

Carol Williams Tues 1 Dec Preventing DVTs 


MDT Rehabilitation Training session
Pip Logan  Tues 1 Dec Getting out House

Gillian Mead  Tues 1 Dec Exercise after Stroke


Wednesday 2 Dec 2009  
Claire Andrews  Weds 2 Dec Unmet Needs in Nursing Homes

Jean-Claude Baron  Weds 2 Dec Stroke Recovery Plenary 1

Rozanne Barrow   Weds 2 Dec Potential of Narrative-Comm Disability

Julie Bernhardt Weds 2 Dec Plenary 1

Nicky Durrant  Weds 2 Dec Joint Commissioning

Gary Ford  Weds 2 Dec NIHR SRN Overview

Kathryn Griffith & Adele Graham  Weds 2 Dec GRASP

Kathryn Griffith  Weds 2 Dec Barriers to using anticoag

N Kandiyil  Weds 2 Dec Parallel 2a Abstract

Alice King  Weds 2 Dec CADISS

Janet Rockliffe  Weds 2 Dec Learning from Experience Workshop

Steve Warach  Weds 2 Dec Advances in Imaging Plenary 2

Thursday 3 Dec 2009
Joanne Brooke  Thurs 3 Dec Predictors South London Stroke Register

Campbell Chalmers Thurs 3 Dec NHS Lanarkshire

Charlie Chung  Thurs 3 Dec Interventions for visual problems

Olympio Dsouza  Thurs 3 Dec Readmissions

Robert Flynn  Thurs 3 Dec Antiplatelet Prescribing

Carol Griffiths  Thurs 3 Dec Increasing Confidence

Giosue Gullie  Thurs 3 Dec Predictive Power FAST & ABCD2

Kate Hellier  Thurs 3 Dec Orolingual Angioedema

Tony Rudd  Thurs 3 Dec Workforce Development Hospital

Emma Ryan  Thurs 3 Dec Evaluating FAST

Marion Walker  Thurs 3 Dec Research Challenges

Joanna Wardlaw  Thurs 3 Dec Practical Guide to Neuro Imaging

Jane Williams  Thurs 3 Dec Workforce Development after Discharge