Enhancing culturally responsive stroke care: Multidisciplinary team perspectives on challenges and facilitators during the delivery of acute transitional care

Tracks
10-minute presentations
Saturday, June 27, 2026
12:10 PM - 12:20 PM
Knowledge Hub | Central Room B, Ground Floor

Overview

Assoc Professor Samantha Siyambalapitiya

Details

⏫ Rapid oral presentation
⏲️ 12:10–12:20 pm
⌛ 10-minutes
📚 Assumed knowledge of attendees: Foundational (new/casual familiarity with the topic e.g. treated a single case)

Presenter

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Assoc Professor Samantha Siyambalapitiya
Bond University

Enhancing culturally responsive stroke care: Multidisciplinary team perspectives on challenges and facilitators during the delivery of acute transitional care

12:10 PM - 12:20 PM

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Samantha Siyambalapitiya, PhD is the Foundation Head and Associate Professor in Speech Pathology at Bond University. She has almost 25 years of experience across roles as a clinician, tertiary educator and researcher. Samantha’s research explores culturally responsive healthcare, in particular for the vulnerable group of people who experience both communication disability and cultural/linguistic differences. To understand and promote culturally responsive practice, she leads funded research projects, supervises doctoral students and founded Sympatico Research Group (Vision: Integrating Culture and Language with Health and Wellbeing). She also provides expert advice as a member of the Australian Stroke Foundation Research Advisory Committee and the IALP Multilingual and Multicultural Affairs Committee and has been invited to provide peer review on manuscripts relating to culturally responsive practice for 16 different journals.

Session chair

Charmaine Tu
Public Practice

Student volunteer(s)

Eden Cook

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Grace Smith
UQ Student

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