3rd World Falls Congress - Programme overview

Wednesday 24 June

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12.00	Registration
13.00	Poster Presentations - Ground Floor Poster Stations
14.00	From Research to Reality Task-Specific Exercise and AI-Enabled Innovations in Fall Prevention Moderator: Michael Schwenk, PhD, Department of Sport Science, University of Konstanz, Germany Saskia Neumann, MSc, DartLab, Lake Lucerne Insti-tute, Switzerland Eleftheria Giannouli, PhD, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich Lotta Seppala, PhD, Amsterdam UMC, The Netherlands	Prevention ProFaNE: 25 years on Moderator: Chris Todd, Professor, The University of Manchester Professor Sallie Lamb, Professor University of Exeter Professor Clemens Becker, Professor, Universität Heidelberg Professor Jacqui Close, Prof, NeuroScience Research Australia Professor Sirpa Hartikainen, Prof, Itä-Suomen yliopisto' Professor Wiebren Zijlstra, Professor, Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln Professor Kamiar Aminian, Prof, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne Professor Stephen Lord, Professor, NeuroScience Research Australia	LMIC Implementing World Falls Guidelines Recommendations in LMICs Moderator: Monica Rodrigues Perracini, Professor, Universidade Cidade de São Paulo, and Research Fellow in Gerontology at Universidade Estadual de Campinas, São Paulo. Fernando Gómez, Specialist in Geriatric Medicine, University of Caldas Devinder Kaur Ajit Singh, Professor, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Maw Pin Tan, Professor, Universiti Malaya	Prevention "Falling Competence” - Rediscovering the Missing Piece in Falls Injury Prevention Moderator: Karin Strömqvist Bååthe, PhD student in Person Centered and Integrated Care, R &D Unit at the Region of Sörmland Agathe Daria Jadczak (PhD) University of Adelaide, Australia MC Campos-Mesa (PhD), University of Seville, Spain Mike Callan (PhD), University of Hertfordshire, UK
15.00	Free time Poster Presentations - Ground Floor Poster Station
15.30	Analogue to digital Implementation of exergame training for falls prevention across different settings Eleftheria Giannouli, PhD, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zurich Daina Sturnieks,Neuroscience Research Australia Rieke Trumpf, LVR Hospital Cologne, Germany David Beckwee, Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium	Treatment Closing the gap: Aligning evidence, protocols, and practices in post-fall management for older adults Moderator: Tahir Masud, Professor of Geriatric medicine, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, United Kingdom Dr Raphaëlle-Ashley Guerbaai, Monash University Australia Professor Nathalie van der Velde, MD. Internist-geriatrician, Department of Geriatric Medicine, Amsterdam University Medical Center Professor Jagadish K Chhetri, Assoc. Prof. National Clinical Research Center for Geriatric Diseases, Xuanwu Hospital Capital Medical University, China (REMOTE) Professor Ellen Vlaeyen, Centre of Expertise for Falls and Fracture Prevention Flanders	Prevention What Works in Implementing the World Falls Guidelines in Clinical Practice Moderator: Kristin Taraldsen, Department of Rehabilitation Science and Health Technology, OsloMet, Oslo, Norway Melanie Haley, La Trobe University, Eastern Health Physiotherapy, Eastern Health Allied Health Clinical Research Office, Melbourne, Australia Charlotte Mclennan, The University of Sydney, Sydney Local Health District, Sydney, Australia Marina Arkkukangas, Research and Development unit, FoU i Sörmland, Region Sörmland Therese Brovold, Department of Rehabiliation Science and Health Technology, OsloMet, Oslo, Norway, Maria Bjerk, Department of Rehabiliation Science and Health Technology, OsloMet, Oslo, Norway,	Research into Practice Reactive Balance Training: Translating Research into Practice Moderators: Dr Yoshiro Okubo, Conjoint Senior Lecturer, Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) and Melanie Farlie, Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow, Monash University Christopher McCrum, Assistant Professor, Maastricht University, Netherlands Jessica Koschate-Storm, Senior Scientist, Geriatric Medicine, Department for Health Services Research, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Olden-burg, Oldenburg, Germany Kristin Musselman, Associate Professor and Senior Scientist, Department of Physical Therapy, University of Toronto, and KITE-Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University Health Network Avril Mansfield, Senior Scientist, KITE-Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University Health Network
16.30	Welcome and Opening Address 16.30 Horse hairs, smoke paper, pulleys, slide rules and fun fairs – the pre-history and history of fall prevention research Professor Stephen Lord, Professor, NeuroScience Research Australia and President, World Falls Society 17.05 Professor Jugdeep Dhesi, President, British Geriatrics Society 17. 20 Professor Chris Todd, Professor, The University of Manchester and Co-Chair European Falls Festival
17.30	Social programme: Networking

Thursday 25 June

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8.30	Poster Presentations - Ground Floor Poster Stations
9.30	Invited speakers 9.30 - eFall prediction Professor Andrew Clegg, Professor of Geriatric Medicine, University of Leeds & Bradford Royal Infirmary 10.00 - Bridging the Gap: Falls Prevention in Low- and Middle-Income Countries Professor Devinder Kaur Ajit Singh, senior lecturer and member of Center for Healthy Aging and Wellness, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 10.30 - Low risk does not mean no risk - approaches to older adults at low risk of falling Professor Manuel Montero-Odasso, Geriatrician, Western University, Canada
11.00	Free time including Poster Presentations and Technology Booth Coffee break. Visit the posters and exhibition stands
11.30	FFN Invited Symposium - Falls prevention following fragility fractures Moderator: Karen Hertz, President, Fragility Fracture Network Frede Frihagen, Orthopaedic Surgeon, Oslo, Norway & Julie Santy-Tomlinson, Nurse, FFN UK Venisa Kwok, physiotherapist and an early career researcher at the Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, Sydney, Australia Ruth Aga, Physician, Dept. for Orthopaedic Emergencies, Oslo, Norway	Prevention Challenges and Opportunities in Falls Assessments Outcomes in Clinical Practice and Research Moderators: Dr. Ellen Freiberger, PhD, Professor at Institute for Biomedicine on Aging, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg Germany and Dr. Frederico Pieruccini-Faria, PhD, Adjunct Research Professor in medicine, Western University-Canada Dr. Jesper Ryg, MD, Professor, University of Copenhagen Professor Manuel Montero-Odasso, PhD, MD, Professor of Geriatric Medicine, Western University Associate Professor Ellen Freiberger, Professor at Institute for Biomedicine on Aging, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg Germany Roundtable Dr. Ditte Jepsen, clinical associate professor at the KI, OUH Research Unit for Geriatrics, Odense / University of Southern Denmark, Department of Clinical Research Dr. Giulia Ogliari, MD, PhD, National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC) Leicestershire Professor Manuel Montero-Odasso, PhD, MD, Professor of Geriatric Medicine, Western University, Professor Jesper Ryg, MD, Professor, University of Copenhagen Professor Tash Masud, MD, Professor of Geriatric Medicine, University of Nottingham, Nottingham University Hospital Trust 12.30 Platform Presentations	Hospital to community 2025 Cochrane Collaboration review on falls prevention in care facilities Moderator: Nathalie van der Velde, Professor, Internal Medicine, Section of Geriatric Medicine, Amsterdam UMC Dr Suzanne Dyer, Senior Research Fellow, Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, Flinders University (remote) Dr Rik Dawson, Post-doctoral Research Fellow and President, Australian Physiotherapy Association Institute for Musculoskeletal Health, The University of Sydney and Sydney Local Health District Dr Lotta Seppala, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Internal Medicine, Section of Geriatric Medicine, University of Amsterdam Professor Ngaire Kerse, Joyce Cook Chair in Ageing Well, University of Auckland 12.30 Platform Presentations	LMIC Falls-related Practice and Research in Asia Moderator: Devinder Kaur Ajit Singh, Prof Dr, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) Dr. Susiana Nugraha, Associate Professor, University of Respati Indonesia Dr Shawn Soh, Assistant Professor, Singapore Institute of Technology Dr Sumaiyah Mat, Senior Lecturer, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 12.30 Platform Presentations
13.00	Lunch including Poster Presentations and Technology Booth Visit the posters and exhibition stands
14.00	EuGMS Invited Symposium Integration of falls and fracture care in older adults. From evidence to innovation and implementation across Europe Moderators: Nathalie Van der Velde and Alvaro Casas Herrero Lotta Seppala, Postdoc, Amsterdam UMC Dr Alvaro Casas Herrero, Clinical Head of section , Department of Geriatrics. Associate Professor, Public University of Navarra, Hospital Univeristario of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain Professor Tahir Masud, Consultant Geriatrician, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust	Prevention A fresh look at fall prevention: safer mobility behaviour and functional cognition Moderator: Dr Natalie Allen, Associate Professor of Physiotherapy, The University of Sydney Mr Daniel Cheung, Associate Lecturer in physiotherapy and PhD candidate, The University of Sydney Dr Jacqueline Wesson, Lecturer in occupational therapy, The University of Sydney Dr Natalie Allen, Associate Professor of Physiotherapy, The University of Sydney 15.00 Platform Presentations	14.00 Platform Presentations	LMIC Falls and Geriatrics Syndromes Across Four Asian Countries Moderator: Maw Pin Tan, Professor, Universiti Malaya Arunansu Talukdar, Professor, Medical College Kolkota (remote) Depressive Symptoms, Nutritional Deficits and Falls Risk Among Hospitalized Older Adults in Kolkota, India Reshma Merchant, Associate Professor, National University of Singapore Shehan Silva, Professor, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka Wayne Chan, Assistant Professor, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University 15.00 Platform Presentations
15.30	Free time including Poster Presentations and Technology Booth Coffee break. Visit the posters and exhibition stands
16.00	16.00 - Reactive Balance and Virtual Reality Training to Prevent Falls Dr Yoshiro Okubo, Conjoint Senior Lecturer, Neuroscience Research Australia (NeuRA) 16.30 - Digital Health Interventions for Healthy Ageing Professor Cathie Sherrington, Professor and NHMRC Leadership Fellow, University of Sydney 17.00 - Falls prevention exercise as medicine: Fidelity and dose matter! Professor Dawn Skelton, Professor of Ageing and Health, Glasgow Caledonian University
17.30	Business Meeting of World Falls Group
19.30	Social programme: Dinner. House of Social. Not ticketed - attendees pay their own way

Friday 26 June

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8.00	Registration
8.30	Free time including Poster Presentations and Technology Booth
9.30	Moderators: Nathalie Van Der Velde and Chris Todd Invited speakers 09.30 - Concerns about falling as a risk for future falls: New findings and clinical guidelines Dr Toby Ellmers, Wellcome Trust Sir Henry Wellcome Fellow, Imperial College London 10.00 - Syncope and Cardiovascular disease and the link to falls Dr Lara Mitchell, Consultant Physician Older People’s services QEUH, NHS Glasgow and Greater Clyde, National Clinical Lead Frailty HIS, Scottish Quality & Safety Fellow c12 10.30 - A&E and Falls Dr Louise Tomkow, Consultant Geriatrician, Salford Royal Hospital
11.00	Free time including Poster Presentations and Technology Booth Coffee break. Visit the posters and exhibition stands
11.30	IOF + ESCEO Invited Symposium Falls and musculoskeletal health in the context of long-term conditions and global disparities Moderator: Professor Nicholas Harvey, University of Southampton Director; Professor of Rheumatology and Clinical Epidemiology; President, International Osteoporosis Foundation Professor Kate Ward, University of Southampton, UK Professor Eugene McCloskey, University of Sheffield, UK Professor Nicholas Harvey, University of Southampton, UK	Analogue to Digital How machine learning, AI and LLMs can improve our understanding of the causality of falls Moderator; Clemens Becker, Professor, University of Heidelberg Naser Taleshi, PhD Lecturer, University of Exeter, UK Timilehin Aderinola, PhD, UCD, Ireland Sama Balum, Graduate student, Center for the Study of Movement, Cognition and Mobility, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Israel Jose Luis Albites Sanabria, PhD, University of Bologna, Italy 12.30 Platform Presentations	Prevention Concerns about falling: Causes, consequences and clinical guidance Moderator: Professor Kim Delbaere, University of New South Wales Toby J. Ellmers, Imperial College London, London, UK Samuel R. Nyman, University of Winchester, Winchester, UK Mei L. Lim, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia & The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney, Australia. Sabine Britting, Institute for Biomedicine of Aging, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Nuremburg, Germany 12.30 Platform Presentations	Research to Reality Translating Evidence Into Action: The RealWorld Challenges Of Falls Management In LMICS Moderator: Elizabeth GM Chong, Consultant Geriatrician and Internal Medicine, Hospital Kuala Lumpur Nagammai Thiagarajan, Consultant in Family Medicine, Kuala Lumpur Primary Care Clinic Elizabeth Chong, Consultant Geriatrician and Internal Medicine, Hospital Kuala Lumpur Malarkodi Suppamutharwyam, Consultant Geriatrician and Internal Medicine, Hospital Tengku Ampang Rahimah Syarifah Nora binti Syed Husli, Head of Department of Physiotherapy, Hospital Kuala Lumpur Nur Syafikah Khalid, Pharmacist in Bone and Metabolic disorder, Hospital Kuala Lumpur 12.30 Platform Presentations
13.00	Lunch including Poster Presentations and Technology Booth
14.00	Research to Reality Moderators: Maw Pin Tan and Manuel Montero-Odasso Implementation of falls prevention exercise programmes across the UK, Ireland, Spain and Brazil Moderator: Professor Dawn Skelton, Professor of Ageing and Health, Glasgow Caledonian University Dr Fay Manning, Lecturer, University of Exeter Dr Ruth McCullagh, Senior Lecturer, University College Cork María Cristina Solé Agustí, PhD, Deputy Director of Continuity of Care Murcia Health Area I, Murcia Health Service (SMS) Researcher, IMIB–Arrixaca Biomedical Research Institute Monica Rodrigues Perracini, Professor Masters and Doctoral Programs in Physical Therapy Universidade Cidade de São Paulo, Brazil	Analogue to Digital Wearable Technologies for Fall Risk Assessment: Closing the Evidence Gap Moderator: Lorenzo Chiari, Dept. Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering “Guglielmo Marconi” University of Bologna Alessandro Silvani, PhD, Associate Professor, Dept Biomedical and Neuromotor Sciences, University of Bologna Jochen Klenk, Prof. Dr., Institute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, Ulm University Lloyd Chan, Lecturer, School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine & Health, UNSW SYDNEY \| Conjoint Research Fellow, NeuRA \| Associate Investigator, UNSW Ageing Futures Institute Pierpaolo Palumbo, PhD, Junior assistant professor, Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering “Guglielmo Marconi”, University of Bologna 15.00 Platform Presentations	Prevention Evidence Lost in Translation: Addressing Implementation Gaps in Falls Prevention in Community Moderator: Professor Dr. Koen Milisen, KU Leuven, Belgium Dr. Sara Vandervelde, Postdoctoral researcher, KU Leuven, Belgium Dr. Meghan Ambrens, Research Fellow, Neuroscience Research Australia, NSW Australia Prof. Lynette Mackenzie,Professor, University of Sydney, NSW Australia Dr. Helen Hawley-Hague, Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester, UK 15.00 Platform Presentations	Hospital to Community From Clinic to Community: Translating observations of gait into real-world impact for assessing fall risk in ageing and neurodegeneration. Moderators: Professor Stephen Lord, Senior Principal Research Fellow, NeuRA, Australia and Dr Lisa Alcock, Senior Research Associate, Newcastle University, UK Professor Tahir Masud, Consultant Physician, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, United Kingdom Dr Ditte Beck Jepsen, Clinical Associate Professor, Research Unit of Geriatrics, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark Dr Lisa Alcock, Senior Research Associate, Institute for Translational and Clinical Research, Newcastle University, United Kingdom 15.00 Platform Presentations
15.30	Free time including Poster Presentations and Technology Booth Coffee break. Visit the posters and exhibition stands
15.45	Invited speakers 15.45 - Osteoporosis and Fracture Risk Management in sub-Saharan Africa Professor Celia Gregson, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, NIHR Global Health Research Professor of Healthy Ageing, Honorary Consultant Geriatrician, University of Bristol, Royal United Hospital Foundation Trust Bath, The Health Research Unit of Zimbabwe (THRU ZIM), Biomedical Research and Training Institute, Harare, Zimbabwe 16.15 - Implementation considerations for balance assessment and measurement Professor Kathryn Sibley, Kinesiologist, University of Manitoba (remote) 16.45 - Vit D and Falls/fractures Professor Bo Abrahamsen Consultant Endocrinologist, Holbæk Hospital
17.30	Close of conference

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