Intelligent Health - Future Rehabilitation 2023

Preliminary Program

• 19 October

  Registrations starts at 09:00.

  Opening remarks

  • Einar Magnus Strand, CEO at Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital
  • Christen Krogh, Rector at OsloMet

  Overview of the field

  • 10:20 Road to digitalization in healthcare - what to learn from finance? by Eivind Gjemdal CEO at Bits
  • 10:45 Personalized medicine; What's new? by Ketil Widerberg, general manager at Oslo Cancer Cluster
  • 11:10 Break
  • 11:40 Clinical Virtual Reality: A Brief Review of the Future! by Albert "Skip" Rizzo, Director of the Medical Virtual Reality and Institute for Creative Technologies and Research Professor at University of Southern California 
  • 12:25 Lunch break 

   Examples from the field

  • 13:45 Professionals interviewing maltreated children supported via artificial avatars by Gunn Astrid Baugerud, Associate Professor at OsloMet 
  • 14:05 Social cognition; VR training after traumatic brain injury by Martin Matre, clinical neuropsychologist at Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital and PhD-candidate at University of Oslo
  • 14:25 Humanoid robots in healthcare - a friend or an enemy? by Linda Sørensen, specialist occupational therapist at Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital and PHD Candidate at University of Agder
  • 15:05 Break 
  • 15:35 Examples from recent brain injury studies. Making sure rehabilitation research makes a difference for real life problems by Marianne Løvstad, clinical neuropsychologist at Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital and Professor at University of Oslo

  Panel discussion

  • 15:55 Unmet needs in community-based rehabilitation - what is needed? by Geir Sundet, Director, evaluation & Analytics, Risk & Regulatory at KPMG
  • 16:25 Panel discussion: How to meet future needs of rehabilitation services
  • 17:00 Dinner

• 20 October

  Registration starts at 08:30

  Technologies in Rehabilitation

  • 09:00 Wearable Sensing Technologies for Rehabilitation and the Health Metaverse by Chwee Teck Lim, Chair Professor at National University of Singapore and Director at Institute for Health Innovation and Technology

  Examples from the field

  • 09:45 Paired associative stimulation in spinal cord injury rehabilitation by Anastasia Shulga, Head of department; Ward for demanding rehabilitation, Helsinki University Hospital
  • 10:30 Break
  • 11:00 The shift in spinal cord injury rehabilitation by Fin Biering-Sørensen, Clinical Professor at Rigshospitalet Copenhagen
  • 11:30 Telerehabilitation for post-stroke aphasia by Hege Prag Øra, Medical doctor and specialist in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital and lecturer at University of Oslo.
  • 11:50 Potential of respiratory therapy in spinal cord injury by Anja Raab, PostDoc researcher and physiotherapist at University Hospital of Bern
  • 12:10 Lunch Break
  • 13:10 AI in rehabilitation by Michael Riegler, Professor at OsloMet and chief research scientist/ research professor at SimulaMet
  • 13:30 Sensor technology innovation in Spinal cord injury by Thomas Glott, Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital

  Research methodology

  • 13:50 Quantitative Measurements in Rehabilitation Research: Balancing Precision with Sound Judgment  by Terje Gjøvaag, Associate Professor at OsloMet and Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital
  • 14:10 Research methodology in rehabilitations by Cecilie Røe, Professor at Oslo University Hospital and University of Oslo

  Closing remarks

  14:55 Closing remarks with Carl Christian Thodesen, Vice-rector for societal impact and knowledge exchange at OsloMet

• About Intelligent Health

  Intelligent helse at OsloMet is a strategic initiative and a collaboration between the faculty of health sciences and faculty of technology, art, and design.  

  Intelligent health aims to contribute knowledge and solutions that promote health and prevent disease focusing on technological development and implementation. The main goals of Intelligent health are to strengthen research and innovation environments, develop collaboration with private and public sectors, and contribute to leading education within health and technology. 

• About Sunnaas Rehabilitation Cluster

  Sunnaas Rehabilitation Cluster (SRC) is a vibrant collaboration, in a working hospital environment, where partners from the hospital, academic institutions and industry have access to competence and state-of-the-art infrastructure for innovation, implementation and evaluation of the next generation rehabilitation programs, services and technologies.