Conference Speakers
Keynote Speakers
- Friday
Geoffrey M. Lauer, National Director of Affiliate Relations, Brain Injury Association of America
Geoffrey M. Lauer, MA, has been the National Director of
Affiliate Relations with the Brain Injury Association of America
since 1997. The mission of the Brain Injury Association of America is to create a better future through brain injury prevention, research education and advocacy. Through membership, federal grants and contracts, and foundation support the association works to expand services and supports that lead toward reduced incidence and improved outcomes of children and adults with brain injuries.
Geoff's duties include organizational planning as part of the national management team; project director of federal grants and contracts; departmental and project financial management; federal and state level lobbying; provision of strategic planning and technical assistance to all state brain injury associations in areas of organizational development and operation including governance, management, advocacy, programming, and fund development.
Geoff also provides coordination of national education and training in leadership, funding stream analysis, advocacy, and grant writing.
- Saturday
Dr. Claudia L. Osborn, DO,
FACOI
 Dr.
Claudia L. Osborn, Claudia L. Osborn, DO, is an Associate Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine, Michigan State University; a graduate of Vassar College and MSU College of Osteopathic Medicine; and author of
Over My Head: A Doctor’s Own Story of Head Injury from the Inside Looking Out,1998, Andrews McMeel Publishing, Kansas City.
Dr. Osborn will discuss
how the successful
rehabilitation of traumatic brain injury must go beyond the teaching
of compensatory techniques and strategies. While the development of
the greatest possible independence for the survivor is essential,
the ultimate goal of rehabilitation is to create also an environment
and structure that will enable the individual to identify and build
a full and satisfying new life.
Dr. Osborn will be available to sign her book,
Over My Head, A Doctor's Own Story
of Head Injury from the Inside Looking Out, and will also be
selling them.
Presenters
Dr. Mark J. Ashley, Sc.D., CCC-SLP, C.C.M.
Friday
 Dr. Mark Ashley is Co-Founder and President of Centre for Neuro
Skills (CNS), which provides post-acute brain injury
rehabilitation programs at facilities in Bakersfield,
California, Encino, California and Irving, Texas. In addition to
his responsibilities with CNS, Dr. Ashley serves on the Board of
Directors of the Western Institute of Rehabilitation and serves
as its Executive Director.
Dr. Ashley received his Masters Degree in Speech Pathology and Doctor of Science in 2002 from Southern
Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. In 1995, Dr. Ashley
was named Distinguished Alumni of the Year by Southern Illinois
University at Carbondale. He is currently an Adjunct Professor
for the University's Department of Communication Disorders and
Sciences, specializing in brain injury and cognitive deficits.
Dr. Ashley is a licensed Speech/Language Pathologist in
California and Texas and is also a Certified Case Manager.
Dr. Ashley has specialized in head injury rehabilitation
since 1978 and is recognized by his peers as an expert in the
field. He has lectured at more than 100 national and
international professional education activities to promote and
refine therapeutic endeavors for the traumatically brain
injured.
Dr. Ashley is a member of numerous professional associations
including the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association,
the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine, the California
Speech and Hearing Association, the National Association for
Independent Living, the National Association of Rehabilitation
Professionals in the Private Sector, the National Head Injury
Foundation, the National Rehabilitation Association, the
National Rehabilitation Administration Association, and the
Texas Speech and Hearing Association.
Selected Publications:
Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation, by
David Krych, Craig S. Persel, Chris H. Persel, Mark J. Ashley,
CRC Press; 1st edition, 1995.
Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation provides a concise source for information about the scientific and therapeutic realms involved in the rehabilitation of the traumatically brain-injured patient, specifically as they relate to persistent deficits. It is intended as a reference for pharmacological, anatomical and physiological information for basic therapeutic rationales that are not well-understood in the field such as cognitive and vestibular rehabilitation. It offers specific therapeutic approaches and other material available only through extensive readings from multiple sources.
Working with Behavior Disorders: Strategies for Traumatic
Brain Injury Rehabilitation,
Mark J. Ashley, Academic Press; 1999.
In addition to his books, Dr. Ashley
has published numerous research articles in publications dealing
with neurological rehabilitation, neuroembryological development, and rehabilitative outcomes.
Dr. Kathleen R. Bell, M.D., Project Director, Traumatic Brain Injury Model System (TBIMS)
Friday
 Kathleen R. Bell, MD
Associate Professor
Rehabilitation Physician
Medical Director, Rehabilitation Medicine Ambulatory Care
Medical Director, and Brain Injury Rehabilitation at the University of Washington
Dr. Bell is The Project Director of the University of
Washington Traumatic Brain Injury Model System, and a member of
the Academic Affairs Committee. Dr. Bell is active in the AAPMR
Brain Injury SIG and is the associate editor of The Journal of
Head Trauma Rehabilitation. She is the Chair of the
Self-Assessment Subcommittee and a member of the Medical
Education Committee for AAPMR. Dr. Bell was honored as one
of the best doctors in Washington State for 2002.
Dr. Bell earned a B.S.N. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.D. from Temple University. She completed her residency and fellowship in PM&R at the University of Washington.
Dr. Bell's clinical interests include traumatic brain injury, post-traumatic headache, minimally responsive state, brain tumor, stroke, and anoxic brain injury.
My goal in working with persons who have had an injury of any kind to their brain is to empower them to assume a productive life through medicine, therapy and mentoring.
Research
Her research areas are post-acute models of care for brain injury, exercise and depression after brain injury, sleep disorders after brain injury, and medical education.
Selected Publications:
Bell KR, O'Dell MW, Barr K, Yablon SA: Rehabilitation of the patient with brain tumor. Arch Phys Med Rehabil, 1998; 79: S37-S46.
Bell KR, Massagli TM: Subacute brain injury rehabilitation: An opportunity for medical education and training. Brain Injury 10: 1996, 875-881.
Bell KR, Pepping M: Women and Traumatic Brain Injury. Phys Med Rehabil Clinics of North America. 2001; 82: 169-81.
Bell KR, Krause E, Zasler N: Medical Management of Post-Traumatic Headache: Pharmacological and Physical Treatment. J Head Trauma Rehabil 1999; 14: 34-38.
Webster J, Bell KR, Hussey JD, Lakshminarayan S, Natale T: Sleep apnea in adult traumatic brain injury: a preliminary investigation. Arch Phys Med Rehabil 2001 (Mar); 82: 316-3.
Alta M. Bruce, BA
Injury Prevention Specialist, Indian Health Service, Chairperson, Indigenous
Brain Injury Association
Friday
Alta Bruce is an Injury Prevention Specialist with the Indian
Health Service and Chairperson/Founder of the Indigenous Brain Injury Association
(IP-BIA)
in
Belcourt, North Dakota.
The Indigenous People’s Brain Injury Association (IP-BIA) is the nation’s only group that assists in tracking, educating, advocating, and providing support to the US Indigenous population with traumatic brain injury (TBI). Alta M. Bruce (Turtle Mountain Band of the Chippewa) is the chairwoman of the organization and proves to be a lifeline for the Native American community. Ms. Bruce and the IP-BIA run an annual conference for professionals, but more importantly for Indigenous people with traumatic brain injury and their families. The IP-BIA is unique in that it incorporates from beginning to end, culturally appropriate information, activities, and speakers with great attention to survivors and others’ spiritual lives. The First National Native American Summit was sponsored by HRSA and partnered with the IP-BIA and the Brain Injury Association of America
in Bismarck, ND, May 3-5 2003.
This Summit opened with a traditional prayer spoken in Ojibwa language, passing of the pipe, smudging and other traditional spiritually based activities. There was an opportunity to sweat and a talking circle was used at the close of the meeting. Gifts of traditional Indian quilts, woven bags and other items were given out to honor participants. Attention to the differences in Indigenous people’s ideas about time was also honored and there was never a rushed feel to the activities. The IP-BIA drew its usual membership and through the support of HRSA was able to invite Indigenous people from the Plains, Woodlands, Northwest, and Southwest cultural regions of the nation to the Summit.
In 1998 Alta Bruce, as Highway Safety Director, Turtle Mountain
Chippewa Tribe,
Belcourt, N.D.,
received The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Public
service award for her pioneering highway safety efforts offering hope to traumatic brain injury survivors, and bringing safer traffic laws for the Turtle Mountain Chippewa Tribe.
Dr. Randall Chesnut, MD, FCCM, FACS
Friday
Dr. Randall Chesnut is Associate Professor, Neurological Surgery and Emergency Medicine,
Director, Neurotrauma and Critical Care, and
Director, OHSU
Neurotrauma Research Group at Oregon Health Sciences University.Dr. Chesnut is certified by the American Board of
Neurological Surgery and the American College of Critical Care
Medicine. His major clinical interests are the acute and long term
management of traumatic brain injury, management of spinal cord
injury, and treatment of traumatic and non-traumatic deformities of
the spinal column.
Dr. Chesnut's research interests are in acute and long-term care of traumatic brain injury, the influence of trauma systems and rehabilitation programs on recovery from TBI, targeted therapy in the intensive care management of TBI, and spinal stabilization. He is a Principal Investigator in the Oregon Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems Project. He is actively involved in developing and testing management strategies for TBI on state, national, and international levels.
Dr. Chesnut is co-developer
of the
Guidelines for
the Management of Severe Head Injury,
which was needed by the medical community. Surveys showed tremendous
variation in the treatment and that treatment was often not based on
scientific research. Some of what the team found was that when a
patient was brought in with a head trauma, the majority of hospitals
surveyed restricted fluids, increased breathing, introduced steroids
and did not monitor brain pressure. The scientific research, says
Chesnut, shows an opposite approach. In order to create the
guidelines, the doctors endeavored to summarize existing research.
Selected Publications:
- Chesnut RM. Glasgow Coma Score versus severity systems in
head trauma [editorial; comment]. Critical Care Medicine.
1998;26(1):10-1
- Chesnut RM, Marshall LF. The role of secondary brain injury
in determining outcome from severe head injury. Paper presented
in reciept of the Volvo Neurotrauma Award from the
Neurotraumatology Section of the World Federation of
Neurosurgical Societies. In: Proceedings of the Meeting held in
New Delhi, India, 1989, 596.
- Chesnut RM, Marshall LF. Management of head injury.
Treatment of abnormal intracranial pressure. Neurosurgery
Clinics of North America. 1991;2(2):267-84.
Abstract
- Chesnut RM, Luerssen TG, Van Berkum-Clark M, Marshall LF,
Klauber MR. Determinants of post traumatic hydrocephalus in the
traumatic coma data bank. In: Proceedings of the Eighth
International Symposium on Intracranial Pressure. Meeting held
in Rotterdam, 1991, A149.
- Chesnut RM. Medical complications of the head injured
patient. In: Cooper PR, ed. Head Injury. Baltimore: Williams and
Wilkins, 1992:459-501.
- Chesnut RM, Marshall LF, Bowers-Marshall S. Medical
management of elevated intracranial pressure. In: Cooper PR, ed.
Head Injury. Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins, 1992:225-246.
- Chesnut R, Marshall L. Intracranial pressure monitoring and
cerebrospinal fluid drainage. In: Benumof J, ed. Clinical
procedures in anesthesia and intensive care. Philadelphia: J B
Lippincott Co, 1992:695-724.
- Chesnut RM, Marshall SB, Piek J, Blunt BA, Klauber MR,
Marshall LF. Early and late systemic hypotension as a frequent
and fundamental source of cerebral ischemia following severe
brain injury in the Traumatic Coma Data Bank. Acta
Neurochirurgica - Supplementum. 1993;59:121-5.
Abstract
- Chesnut RM, Marshall LF, Klauber MR, et al. The role of
secondary brain injury in determining outcome from severe head
injury. Journal of Trauma. 1993;34(2):216-22.
Abstract
- Chesnut RM, Marshall LF. Management of severe head injury.
In: Ropper AH, ed. Neurological and Neurosurgical Intensive
Care. New York: Raven Press, Ltd, 1993:203-246.
- Chesnut RM, Luerssen TG, Van Berkum-Clark M, Marshall LF,
Klauber MR. Determinants of post traumatic hydrocephalus in the
traumatic coma data bank. In: Avezaat C, van Eijndhoven JHM,
Maas AJR, Trans JTJ, ed. Intracranial Pressure VIII. Berlin:
Springer-Verlag, 1993:149.
- Chesnut RM. Statistical association between surgical
intracranial pathology and extracranial traumatic injuries [letter;comment].
Journal of Trauma. 1993;35(3):492-3.
- Chesnut RM, Gautille T, Blunt BA, Klauber MR, Marshall LE.
The localizing value of asymmetry in pupillary size in severe
head injury: relation to lesion type and location. Neurosurgery.
1994;34(5):840-5; discussion 845-6.
Abstract
- Chesnut RM. Computed tomography of the brain: a guide to
understanding and interpreting normal and abnormal images in the
critically ill patient. Critical Care Nursing Quarterly.
1994;17(1):33-50.
Abstract
- Chesnut RM. Medical management of severe head injury:
present and future. New Horizons. 1995;3(3):581-93.
Abstract
- Chesnut RM. Secondary brain insults after head injury:
clinical perspectives. [Review]. New Horizons. 1995;3(3):366-75.
Abstract
- Chesnut RM. Evaluation and Management of Severe Closed Head
Injury. In: Tindall GT, Cooper PR, Barrow DL, ed. The Practice
of Neurosurgery. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1995:1401-1424.
- Chesnut RM, Prough DP, ed. Critical Care of Severe Head
Injury . Baltimore, MD: Williams & Wilkins and the Society of
Critical Care Medicine, 1995:228.
- Chesnut RM. Avoidance of Hypotension: The Conditio Sine Qua
Non of Successful Severe Head Injury Management. J Trauma.
1996;42(5):S45-S52.
- Chesnut RM. The Guidelines for the Management of Severe Head
Injury: An Overview. In: Vincent JL, Smitz-De Smet S, ed.
Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, 1997.
Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 1997
- Chesnut R, Gautille T, Blunt B, et al. Neurogenic
Hypotension in Patients with Severe Head Injuries. J Trauma
44:958-964, 1998.
Abstract
Teresa L Fairfield,
OTR, ATP
Saturday
Teresa L Fairfield, an OT and Assistive Technology Practioner and Supervisor of the Virginia Mason
Medical Center brain injury program. Teresa Fairfield
specializes in Neuro-Rehabilitation at the Virginia Mason Seattle Main Clinic, Seattle, WA. Teresa Fairfield received her
Medical
Education degree from Pacific University, Forest Grove, Oregon, in
1993 as well as the Outstanding Graduate
in Occupational Therapy Award that same year.
Teresa
Fairfield has been board certified with the National Board for the Certification of Occupational Therapists (NBCDT)
since
1994.Teresa Fairfield will be presenting with Dr.
Michael Weinstein on Seeing the Big Picture:
Evaluating Brain Injury Treatment for Teamwork, Outcomes,
Compliance, Satisfaction and Value.
Teresa Fairfield is a veteran presenter and has presented in past years at the Pacific Coast Brain Injury Conference in Vancouver as well as other national venues.
Dr. Robert T.
Fraser, PhD, CRC
Friday
Dr.
Robert Fraser is Professor of Neurology, Neurological Surgery, and Rehabilitation
Medicine Director, Vocational Services, in the Department of Neurology
at the University of Washington.
Robert Fraser's research activities and interests center around
job placement and factors related to success and failure,
program evaluation in neurological rehabilitation, prediction of
rehabilitation outcome, and assessment of differential psychotherapy
approaches in neurological rehabilitation. Dr. Fraser's
teaching activities and interests include: neurological
rehabilitation: vocational, MS, TBI, stroke, epilepsy, etc.;
prediction of rehabilitation outcome; and psychosocial adaptation in
neurological rehabilitation.
Dr.
Fraser earned a
MSEd in Rehabilitation Counseling from the University of Southern
California - LA and a PhD from the University of Wisconsin -
Madison.
Selected Publications:
Fraser, RT.,Cook, R., Clemmons, DC, Curl, RH. Work access in
traumatic brain injury rehabilitation: A perspective for the
physiatrist and rehabilitation team. Vocational Rehabilitation.
8(2): 371-387, May 1998
Curl, RM, Fraser, RT, Cook, RG, Clemmons, D. Traumatic brain
injury vocational rehabilitation: preliminary findings for the
coworker as trainer project. Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation.
11(1): 75-85, 1996
Dikmen S S;Temkin N R;Machamer J E;Holubkov A L;Fraser R T;Winn H
R. Employment following traumatic head injuries. Archives of
Neurology. 51(2): 177-86, Feb 1994.
Dr. Richard London, M.A., O.D.,F.A.A.O.
Saturday
 Dr. Richard London received a Master's degree in psychology from Brandeis
University, and then went on to receive his optometry degree from NEWENCO, and
complete a residency in Children's Vision at SCCO. He is a Diplomate in
Binocular Vision and Perception from the American Academy of Optometry, and
former Diplomate chair as well as former chair of the Academy's Binocular Vision and Perception Section. He is the Editor-in-Chief
of Mosby's Optometric Problem Solving Series. Dr. London was a Clinical
Professor at UC Berkeley School of Optometry and is currently a Professor of
Optometry at Pacific University College of Optometry and has a referral-only
binocular vision practice at the Pediatric and Strabismus Referral Center at
Pacific University. He lectures frequently throughout the United States,
as well as in Europe, China and Australia.
Sharon Maynard, JD, Attorney
Friday and Saturday
 Sharon Maynard,
Attorney, is practicing at Swanson Thomas & Coon in Portland,
Oregon. After graduating from UCLA in 1984, Sharon worked as a researcher and consultant for the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency, and as a secretary and office manager. She received her J.D. degree in 1992 from Albany Law School in New York.
Sharon's practice before joining the firm in February 2001 was indigent criminal defense. She spent 8 years working as a trial attorney for Metropolitan Public Defender (MPD), the largest provider of indigent defense services in Oregon. The last year and a half at MPD,
Sharon defended people in civil commitment hearings, involuntary commitment
proceedings initiated by the state.
Sharon Maynard will be speaking on
both days of the conference.
- On Friday
she will educate the medical audience on how the Social
Security Administration will interpret their chart notes and any
letters they may write on their patient’s behalf. As a treating
physician, your opinion regarding your patient’s limitations or
ability to function can be the difference between your patient
being found disabled or not. However, the Social Security
Administration (SSA) is not required to accept your opinion.
Learn how the SSA will evaluate your opinion and chart notes and
how you can make your opinion as persuasive as possible.
- On Saturday
she speak
on the Social Security Administration application process.
Applying for disability benefits from Social Security can be
intimidating and confusing. Learn the process, how Social
Security evaluates your claim, and what you can do to increase
the chances of your application being granted.
Dr. Thomas R.
McCormick, D. Min.
Friday
Dr. Thomas R. McCormick is Senior Lecturer
Emeritus in the Department of Medical History and Ethics at the
University of Washington in Seattle, currently at 40% time. Dr.
McCormick joined the medical school faculty in 1974 and in the fall
of that year offered the first bioethics courses in the UWSOM
curriculum. Since that time, he has provided most of the contact
hours related to ethics in the core curriculum, at Seattle and at
each of the other WWAMI sites, and in addition offers two electives
in both the fall and spring quarters. Dr. McCormick initiated
another unique program, at the Dean's request, when he began a
counseling service for medical students in the late 1970s. In
addition to teaching ethics, he served as Director of Counseling for
the UWSOM until February, 2001. Dr. McCormick serves as ethics
consultant to Harborview Medical Center; he has provided training
for a number of hospital ethics committees in the NW Region; and he
is in frequent demand as a speaker on topics related to bioethics
nationwide. He has published many articles on bioethics, contributed
chapters to textbooks on this topic, and published teaching
videotapes on issues related to the care of dying patients. Dr.
McCormick is also an adjunct professor of medical ethics in the
Bioethics Program at Midwestern University, Glendale, Arizona where
he is visiting professor for their winter quarter.
MaryAnn Seegar,
PT,MS
Saturday
Mary Ann Seeger received her physical therapy degree from the University of Colorado and her masters from the
University of California. She has worked for over 25 years in neurologic rehabilitation, including home care, nursing homes and
outpatient centers in California, Massachusetts, Washington, and Oregon. Her involvement in head injury
rehabilitation dates back to 1978 at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, CA where she was involved in the 1st Head Injury Project to
study the course of head injury recovery. she presently has a private practice in Portland treating balance and dizzy
impairments and consults on multifactoral problems as seen in head
injury. Recently, she contributed a chapter on Balance Deficits in Clinical Applications for Motor Control edited by Montgomery and Connolly.
Mary Ann Seeger teaches at the University of Tennessee and Pacific University and
numerous seminars and courses on Head Injury Rehabilitation,
Balance, and Vestibular Rehabilitation.
Dr. William Thomas Shults,
MD-Neuro-ophthalmologist
Saturday Dr. William Thomas Shults, a Neuro-ophthalmologist,
is Chief of Neuro-ophthalmology at Good Samaritan Hospital and
medical Center. Dr. Shults is also a Clinical Associate
Professor in the Department of Neurology at Oregon Health Sciences
University. Dr. Shults was listed as one of "BEST DOCTORS IN AMERICA,"
in a book written by Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Steven Naifeh and Gregor W. Smith and a team of pollsters and interviewers,
who compiled a list of 3,850 doctors nationwide of the physicians that doctors would send their loved ones to.
Dr. Mark Tilson,
PhD, Neuropsychologist
Saturday
Dr. Mark Tilson is a Neuropsychologist
with the Rehabilitation Institute of Oregon at Legacy Good Samaritan
Hospital and medical Center in Portland, OR. Dr. Tilson specializes
neuropsychological assessments, rehabilitation psychology, geriatric
psychology, traumatic brain injury and stroke rehabilitation,
medical and health psychology, complex psychodiagnostics,
cognitive-behavioral depression treatment, brief psychotherapy, and
stress management.
Dr. Tilson received his PhD from the University of Oregon in
Clinical Psychology.
Christine Trexel,
OTR/L
Saturday
Christine Trexel received here
BS in Occupational Therapy from Colorado State University. Christine Trexel, an Occupational
Therapist with Progressive Rehabilitation Associates, is the
Program Specialist in outpatient day treatment programs for
traumatically brain injured adults offering transdisciplinary
comprehensive cognitive rehabilitation. Christine Trexel does
extensive work in the clinic, home, community, schools, work sites,
and volunteers.
Dr. Michael S. Weinstein, MD
Saturday
Michael S. Weinstein,
MD is the team physiatrist for the Virginia Mason Medical Center brain injury program. Dr. Weinstein is the Medical Director, Neurological Rehabilitation Services at Virginia Mason Medical Center; Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Washington School of Medicine; Fellow, American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation; Board of Directors, Performing Artists Medical Association.
Dr. Michael Weinstein will be presenting with Teresa Fairfield on
Seeing the Big Picture: Evaluating Brain Injury Treatment for Teamwork, Outcomes, Compliance, Satisfaction and Value.
Dr. Weinstein is a veteran presenter and has presented in past years at the Pacific Coast Brain Injury Conference in Vancouver as well as other national venues.
Mara Windstar and Freely
Saturday
Service Dogs
 Mara Windstar, 45, has had a number of health challenges for many years. Seven years ago Mara hit her head on a cement floor and this lead to many changes in her life. Everything from extreme dizziness, cognition and memory problems, seizures, disorientation as well as adding to their mood swings suffered with Bipolar Disorder. In 1998 she received a diagnoses of an inner ear injury and more recently it has been concluded that she has post brain injury syndrome. Through support of friends, assistance from physical therapists, occupational therapists and physicians, Mara adds to the top of her list of aids, her devoted Service Dog, a golden retriever named Freely. Mara finally started experiencing relief from her daily life frustrations when she started training her own service dog with the help of a service dog trainer. The positive training methods used both speeds up the training of canine partners as well as helps to transform the ways to deal with living a complicated life of symptoms. In fact, she has been so successful in this, that her new profession is learning to assist others in owner-training their service dogs. Mara Windstar has taken her life lessons and turned them into shared experiences that others may prosper and grow into hope through presentations on Service Dogs and "A Golden Passage" an interactive presentation where she helps others to experience a positive life through the guidance of a golden retriever.
 Mara will be sharing her experience as a service dog team member, the ways in which she is assisted by her canine partner, as well as how one could go about starting to make the decision if a service dog would be an option they desire. Things to consider in owner-training a service dog vs. applying to a service dog program will also be addressed. Mara comes prepared to share national and local informational resources as well as helpful and accurate information offered online. As always, Mara is accompanied by her Service Dog, Freely. www.PawsToFreedom.com.
Dr. Bruce Wojciechowski
Saturday
 Dr. Bruce
Wojciechowski
("Dr. Bruce") received his Doctor of
Optometry in 1981 and has practiced in the Portland area since
completing his education. He is a Fellow of the College of
Optometrists in Vision Development (FCOVD) and is a member of
the American Optometric Association (AOA), Optometric Extension
Program (OEP), and the Neuro-Optometric Rehabilitation
Association (NORA).
Dr Bruce serves as an executive board member for the Brain
Injury Association of Oregon and is an adjunct professor for the
College of Optometry at Pacific University. Dr. Bruce has
lectured nationally to professionals involved in the treatment
of head injured patients. He also lectures to non-professionals
groups, such as stroke support groups and other community
organizations.
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