The Eighth World Congress on Brain Injury is the Most Successful in IBIA’s History

The International Brain Injury Association’s Eighth World Congress on Brain Injury was held in Washington, DC, March 10-14, 2010.  With close to 1100 delegates from over 40 countries, the Congress was the most successful in IBIA’s history. Over 650 scientific abstracts were submitted to the meeting, also a new record.  The four-day event was packed with educational presentations, panels and workshops, which provided attendees with a unique range of cutting-edge information spanning from basic science to clinical (coma to community) aspects of brain injury.

The Call for Abstracts for the 2012 Ninth World Congress on Brain Injury will be announced in the Fall of 2010.  Please check this website for details.  IBIA received over 650 abstracts for the 2010 Eighth World Congress, a new record. Abstracts accepted for the Congress are published in a supplemental issue of the journal Brain Injury.

The President and the Chair of the IBIA, and the Congress Scientific Planning Committee would like to invite you to attend the Ninth World Congress on Brain Injury, to be held in March 2012 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, is a picturesque historic city, dominated by its famous castle with many fine hotels, restaurants, museums and traditional pubs! There is easy access to Glasgow, the Highlands and to tourist and sporting opportunities.

As an added benefit of membership, IBIA produces a quarterly publication, the International NeuroTrauma Letter (NTL), in an electronic format.