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Call for Presentations

March 20 & 21, 2025
Baymont by Wyndham
2611 Old Red Trail
Mandan, North Dakota

Presentations for the Mind Matters Conference should feature topics of interest to the community that highlight new innovative research, trends, practice strategies, and collaborative models of care for individuals living with a brain injury. Priority will be given to topics with an emphasis on educating and enhancing the lives of people dealing with brain injury.

Deadline to submit: December 2 @ 4:00 pm Central

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Topic Suggestions

  • Accessing services
  • Aging and brain injury
  • Attending college
  • Brain injuries from sports or sports concussions
  • Competency
  • Continuing issues
  • Diet and brain injury
  • Domestic violence and brain injury
  • Guardianship/shared decision-making
  • Moving from childhood brain injury into adulthood
  • Quality of life after brain injury
  • Rehabilitation and recovery from stroke and secondary stroke prevention
  • Sensory impairments following brain injury
  • Veterans and brain injury
  • Yoga and brain injury

Presenter Information

Presenters will receive complimentary conference registration. Travel, lodging, meals and any other expenses incurred by the presenter(s) are the presenters responsibility. No honorarium or travel expense reimbursement will be provided for presenters submitting through the "Call for Presentations" process. Submission of a presentation proposal indicates understanding that presenters volunteer their participation in the Annual Mind Matters Conference. This is a competitive process and not all abstracts are accepted for oral presentations.

All correspondence, including acknowledgement of receipt of submission, will be conducted electronically. Letters of acceptance will be sent electronically no later than December 20.

Continuing education is sought for all presentations, so presenter agreements and PowerPoint presentations must be completed and received by Noon Central on January 17, 2025 to carly.endres@und.edu in order to allow time for credit approval.

Presentation Details

  • Most sessions are 45 minutes long and you should allow for discussion time
  • Lead presenter's biography (maximum of 1,000 characters) – Write it EXACTLY as you would want it read when you are introduced for your presentation
  • Presentation abstract (maximum of 2,000 characters) – For reviewers to use when selecting presentations for the conference
  • Description for conference program (maximum 400 characters)

Questions?

Carly Endres, Senior Project Coordinator
(701) 777-4008 • carly.endres@und.edu