Smart Strokes 2025

15-17 October 2025

Newcastle City Hall, NSW

Smart Strokes warmly invites you to the annual Smart Strokes Conference being held at Newcastle City hall.

Smart Strokes is a large, not-for-profit conference that aims to deliver a distinct learning opportunity and networking platform. Smart Strokes conferences are uniquely inter-professional, attracting nurses, allied health professionals, researchers, basic scientists, Aboriginal health workers and those with lived experience of stroke.

The 2025 conference will include keynote presentations from renowned international and national speakers, a scientific program based on peer-reviewed abstracts as well as practical workshops.

The conference will be a fantastic networking opportunity to exchange ideas with our keynote speakers, fellow delegates and exhibitors presenting new industry trends and products in stroke care.

The theme for 2025 is "Achieving excellence through Empowered Voices and Collaboration". A theme relevant to stroke clinicians and those with lived experience, as we all strive to improve outcomes for those at risk of, or directly affected, by stroke.

Invited speakers

• Janet Prvu Bettger, University of North Carolina
• Rosanne Freak-Poli, Monash University
• Ferdinand Miteff, University of Newcastle
• Heidi Janssen, Hunter Medical Research Institute
• Simone Owen, Tamworth NSW
• Aunty Audrey Trindall

Registration

Early bird registration is open until 15 August 2025.

Abstract submission

Abstract submissions close Monday 30 June 2025.

Find out more, register and submit your abstract at www.smartstrokes.com.au