12th Kent Regional Brain Injury Conference
Date: Friday 7th November 2025
Venue: Woolf College Lecture Theatre, University of Kent
Please register via Eventbrite link for in person or virtual attendance: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/12th-kent-regional-brain-injury-conference-tickets-1712172998529 Free to attend & free parking permit
Chair: Dr Mohamed Sakel (MRCP, UK)
Consultant Physician in Rehabilitation Medicine Chairman Kent Brain Injury Forum
9.15 - 9.45
9.45 - 10.05 How big is the challenge of Traumatic Brain Injury in Kent and Medway? 5 year data Dr Mohamed Sakel
10.05 - 10.25 Rehabilitation for Chronic Neurological Disorders NICE Guideline (2025) Caroline Jones Lead Commissioner NICE Guideline Committee
10.25 - 10.45 What are the key attributes of a specialist Neuro-rehabilitation Unit? Professor Derick Wade, Oxford
10.45 - 11.05 What is the impact of moderate to severe Traumatic Brain Injury? Resource co-design with survivors, clinicians and charity stakeholders? PhD research Karen Saunders CHSS, University of Kent 11.30 –
Opening welcomes Morning session Panel Discussion: 12.10 – 12.30 LUNCH 12.30 – 13.30 Summary of KBIF AGM – Barry Osborn Afternoon Session Morning break : 11.05 – 11.30
14.20 - 14.40 Supporting survivors of Brain Injury and their carers Hayley Cook Headway Kent
14.40 - 15.00 Community based management of Head Injury Rehabilitation
Professor David Wilkinson University of Kent
15.50 - 15.55 What is Brain Health?
15.55 - 16.00 Risks to Brain Health from sports-related concussion injuries
16.00 - 16.15 Neuropsychiatry of Brain Injury
Sponsors:
This is an Independent Conference organised by the Chair. Speakers are by Invitation only by the Chair. The sponsors have not influenced the content, venue or who has been invited to this conference. Free car parking permits will be issued by the University of Kent to all registered attendees Panel Discussion: 15.00 – 15.30
Karen Saunders CHSS, University of Kent
Connor Keene School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences, Loughborough University
Professor Rafey Faruqui CHSS, University of Kent and East Kent Neuropsychiatry Service
