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2005 Garden Lectures


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The 2005 Secret Gardens Tour featured lectures on brain injury and on horticulture/landscape design.

Brain Injury Lectures
The Harch Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Healing Garden

9 AM Dr. Stuart Chalew, Endocrinologist, Children's Hospital, "Endocrine Disorders in the Brain Injured Child."

10 AM Mona Doshani, Injury Epidemiologist, Louisiana Office of Public Health
“Brain Injury Facts and Figures for New Orleans.”

11 AM Dr. Matt Thompson, Neuropsychologist, Children’s Hospital
“The Sports-related Mild Head Injury and Concussion.”

12 PM Panel: (Dr. Ann Tilton, Neurologist, Dr. Maurice Sholas, Assistant Professor, Pediatric Rehabilitation Program LSU - Health Science Center, Dr. Paul Harch, Harch Hyperbarics, Inc., Sharon Crane, Owner, Crane Rehabilitation and Occupational Therapist, Holly Neesum, Physical Therapist, Crane Rehabilitation, and Mark E. Morice, Attorney, Morice Law Firm) “Brain Injury Recovery in the New Millennium.”

1 PM Laura Leblanc, Pharmacy Manager, Walgreen’s, “What Over-The Counter Drugs Will Help or Hinder Someone with a Brain Injury.”

2 PM Dr. Paul Harch, Physician and Owner, Harsch Hyperbarics, Inc., “Recent Findings in Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy for Acute and Chronic Traumatic Brain Injury."

3 PM Vaughn Banting: Banting’s Nursery
“A Brain Injury Survivor’s Story”


3:30 PM John Kelly, owner, Ultimate Fitness,
“Live Strong”

Garden Lectures
Labyrinth Garden

9:30 AM Queta Beasley, Uncle Joe’s Pilates Studio, “Pilates in the Garden: Stretching and Strengthening Atrophied Muscles.”

10 AM Margaret Martin, Owner, Labyrinth Works!, “The Labyrinth”
11 AM Pam Buckman, Horticultural Therapist, Audubon Institute,
“The Healing Properties of a Garden.”

1 PM Ethne Clarke, Garden Editor, Traditional Home Magazine, “Creating An Italianate Garden.”

2 PM Jeannette Roussell, Landscape Architect, Landscape Images,
“Come Out and Play?”

3 PM Brian Gille, Architect, “Outdoor Living-Architecture and the Garden”
Brain Injury Recovery

In the United States, 5.3 million people are living with a TBI (traumatic brain injury) disability and over 5 million more Americans have acquired a brain injury through stroke or other causes.

In Louisiana, 90 out of every 100,000 residents have some form of a brain injury.

1,000 out of every 100,000 metro Orleans area residents acquire brain injuries.

Funds raised from the event will go to local brain injury education and recovery programs.

Brain Injury Conference

The 3rd Annual BIALA Conference is March 25 and 26, 2010 in Covington, Louisiana at the Greater Covington Center.

Register Online

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