Chairs:

Wayne Derman – Professor & Executive Head of the Department of Exercise, Sport and Lifestyle Medicine & Director of the Institute of Sport and Exercise Medicine, Stellenbosch University

Stephanie Tow – Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Colorado

Departments of Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine and Orthopedics Institute – Sports Medicine Center, Children’s Hospital Colorado

Session 1: Emergency scenarios in Paralympic Winter Sports and Extrication Considerations

Mike Uihlein – Team Physician, US Para Ice Hockey Team

Assistant Professor Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical college of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI

Associate Chief of Emergency Medicine for Education and Co-Director Adaptive Sports Clinic, Clement J Zablocki VA Medical Center Spinal Cord Injury Center, Milwaukee, WI

Session 2: MSK Injuries in the Winter Games Setting

Kristina Fagher – Associate Professor, PhD

Physiotherapist, Specialist in Sports Medicine and Physical Activity

Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Sweden, Parasport Sweden

Session 3: Care of the Athlete With Spinal Cord Injury in a Winter Games Environment

Nick Webborn – CBE, UK Sport

Session 4: Keeping Your Team Illness Free in the Cold

Marit Valtonen – Chief Medical Officer, Finland Olympic Team; Medical Director, Finnish Institute of High Performance Sport (KIHU)

Session 5: Update on Brain Health in the Para Athlete (SCAT modifications, new concussion data)

Cheri Blauwet – Senior Vice President and Chief Clinical Officer, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab; Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine

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