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PHI Conferences
PHI's international conferences are periodic.
Ideas for sessions?
Contact director@post-polio.org or call 314-534-0475.
Location: PHI’s 10th International Conference will be hosted by the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation (RWSIR) in Warm Springs, Georgia. Located 70 miles southwest of Atlanta on 940 acres, RWSIR was founded by Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1927 and served as its medical and vocational rehabilitation center for polio from the late ’20s to the mid-’50s.
To learn more about its storied past and its current modern facilities and services, visit www.rooseveltrehab.org.
Past Conferences
2005
Post-Polio Health International's Ninth International Conference on Post-Polio Health and Ventilator-Assisted Living: STRATEGIES FOR LIVING WELL was held June 2-4, 2005 in Saint Louis, Missouri. 95 speakers – health professionals and polio survivors and ventilator users – represented 26 states and 7 countries. Attendees included 340 people from 13 countries and 34 states.
Audio tapes and CDs are still available from Network Communications (800-747-1426, 636-677-1912 fax). MORE ...
2000
Eighth International Post-Polio & Independent Living Conference, held in Saint Louis, Missouri, featured 89 speakers who have expertise and experience with post-polio and independent living issues.
Three hundred individuals – polio survivors, ventilator users, health professionals, and exhibitors from 14 countries and 39 states – participated in the three-day event.
1997
Coordinates Seventh International Post-Polio and Independent Living Conference, Saint Louis, Missouri.
Joan Headley addressing the crowd.
Dr. Stanley Yarnell speaking.
1994
Coordinates Sixth International Post-Polio and Independent Living Conference, Saint Louis, Missouri.
Gertrud Weiss of Rosenheim, Germany, on right.
Shot of the crowd at the 1994 conference.
1989
Coordinates Fifth International Polio and Independent Living Conference, Saint Louis, Missouri.
Jack Quigley addressing the crowd as local tv anchorperson, Karen Foss, looks on from far left. Joan Headley is on far right.
Joan Headley conferring with Gini Laurie.
Joan Headley at the podium.
Read Gini and G.I.N.I. Conferences: Pioneering Independent Living in the Fall 1993 issue ...
1988
Sponsors Support Group Leaders' Workshop.
Joan Headley and Gini Laurie.
1987
Coordinates Fourth International Polio and Independent Living Conference, Saint Louis, Missouri.
1986
Sponsors Polio Support Group Leaders' Workshop.
1985
Coordinates Third International Polio and Independent Living Conference, Saint Louis, Missouri.
Attendees listening during a session at the Third International Polio and Independent Living Conference.
1983
Coordinates Second International Post-Polio Conference and Symposium on Living Independently with Severe Disability, Saint Louis, Missouri.
1981
Coordinates first conference, Chicago, Illinois – "Whatever Happened to the Polio Patient?"