The Brain Function Conference - May 10, 2018
This is a 4DLiving.org.au event
Location: Noah’s on the Beach, Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
Organiser: 4D Living Lifestyle Health Clinic
Cost: AU$160 per person (Concession Available)
The Conference will benefit: Health Professionals, Allied Health and Aged Care Workers, Educators, Counsellors, Clergy and all others interested in the topic of brain function.
The Brain Function Conference 2018, brings together the latest research combined with practical information so you and your patients can maintain healthy brain function well into old age. An exciting line up of academics and researchers will bring their ideas to the table:
Dr. Arlene Taylor
“Downshifting” – the brain’s automatic response to a sense of feeling unsafe—there are ups and downs
Longevity Lifestyle Matters – how to stay healthy and younger… for longer
Professor Esther Chang
The Brain and Dementia – insight into the future burden of dementia and the brain dysfunction it produces.
Living the Dementia Journey – the impact on individuals, families and the community
Associate Professor Ross Grant
Lifestyle impacts on your risk of developing dementia
Lifestyle links to a healthy brain function
THE PRESENTERS
Dr Arlene R. Taylor, BSc (Nur), MSc (Epid, HEd), PhD (H&HumServ), PhD (Clin. P. Coun)
Dr Taylor, a leading speaker on brain function, is sometimes referred to as the brain guru. She specializes in simplifying this complex topic, with the goal of helping individuals understand more about the brain in general and their own in particular. She delights in helping others learn how to thrive by design. Whether through live presentations, television, and radio, CDs and DVDs, or through her internationally published books and articles, success stories pour in from the four corners of the world.
As a sought-after charismatic speaker who presents practical brain-function information in entertaining, educational, and empowering ways, her illuminating seminars are life-changing. Taylor has spoken to thousands of attendees around the world and is frequently invited back — perhaps the biggest compliment a speaker can receive.
Dr. Taylor is founder and president of Realizations Inc, a nonprofit corporation that engages in brain-function research and provides related educational resources. Her website is a source of valuable brain-function information.
Professor Esther Chang, BAppSc (Adv.Nur), MEdAdmin, PhD
Dr Chang is Professor of Nursing in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University, previously Director of Research and Director of Higher Degree Research programs.
Dr Chang is past President of the Lifestyle Medicine Institute Australia. She has extensive experience in managing research projects and supervising research postgraduate students in aged and palliative care receiving grants investigating nursing and health needs of aged persons, and developing models of care for acutely ill elderly patients and clients with end-stage dementia. She has a 25-plus year record of funded research and publications in priorities for clinical practice, education, long-term disability, aged care and palliation; and has directed and co-directed a Centre for Research in Healthy Futures. Professor Chang’s international links have generated collaborative research into aged care across several countries and with local Area Health Services.
Associate Professor Ross Grant, BEd (Sc), MAppSc , PhD
Dr Grant is a Biochemical Pharmacologist in the School of Medical Sciences UNSW, Clinical Associate Professor at the Sydney Adventist Hospital Clinical School, University of Sydney and Head of the Australasian Research Institute.
Dr Grant’s research focusses on characterising, at the molecular level, how lifestyle and environment (eg emotional stress, diet and exercise) produce changes in the body’s biochemistry that lead toward either health or disease; including oxidative stress, inflammation and changes in metabolism. A practical goal of this research is identification of early subclinical disease (often linked to accelerated aging) enabling effective intervention before irreparable damage to tissue occurs.