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North American Brain Injury Society's Eleventh Annual Conference on Brain Injury: September 18–21, 2013New Orleans, LA

It is with great pleasure that we present the accepted abstracts from the North American Brain Injury Society’s Eleventh Annual Conference on Brain Injury in this issue of the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation. The conference will take place in New Orleans, LA on September 18-21, 2013. We are delighted to have received approximately the same amount of abstract submissions from our previous conferences. The uniformly high quality of the research submitted and broad range of topics clearly reflect the advance now being made across the continuum of care in the field of brain injury. For those of you unable to attend the NABIS meeting, we hope that the abstracts presented in the following pages will at least give you a feel for our annual event. In addition the nearly 90 oral and poster presentations abstracted in this issue, over 40 invited speakers will present the latest advances in the science, rehabilitation and treatment of traumatic brain injury. The preliminary conference program is posted on the NABIS website, www.nabis.org. Our 2013 NABIS conference planning committee has developed an integrated educational program that promises to be of interest to researchers, clinicians, administrators, and other brain injury professionals. The conference will be a four-day, multitrack event that will cover a wide range of brain injury topics including medical best practices, rehabilitation, research, life-long living, pediatrics, and advocacy. Attendees are comprised of basic scientists, rehabilitation physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, neuropsychologists, speech pathologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, social workers, nurses, case managers, legal professionals, advocates and all others working in the field of brain injury. This year’s Pre-Conference Workshop will take place on September 18, 2013 and will focus on Advanced Neuro Imaging. This Pre-Conference Workshop is organized by Jonathan Silver, MD, John Leddy, MD, and Barry Willer, PhD. This half-day workshop will provide participants with an introduction to the alphabet soup of advanced imaging: MRI, Voxels, DWI, DTI, MRS, SWI, fMRI, BOLD and PET. These approaches to imaging have been used primarily in research on the neural substrates of various cognitive functions. Attendees will be provided with some general information on the use of each approach and the types of research questions addressed. The theoretical underpinnings of each approach will be highlighted. Additionally, attendees will also get an introduction to some of the most useful recent findings on brain function and brain injury that are based on advanced imaging technology. The workshop will include detailed discussion with clinical experts of the applicability of advanced imaging for clinical and forensic decision making. We hope that you will join us in New Orleans in September! We also encourage you to consider becoming a member of our multidisciplinary society by visiting www.nabis.org. Whether it is in the area of research or clinical care, NABIS stands behind the premise that advances in science and practices based on application of the scientific evidence will ultimately provide the best outcomes for those with brain injuries and the community as a whole. Sincerely,