2026 Rehabilitation Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand (RMSANZ) 9th Annual Scientific Meeting

2026 Rehabilitation Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand (RMSANZ) 9th Annual Scientific Meeting is organized by DC Conference & Association Management (DCC&A), Rehabilitation Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand (RMSANZ) at Darwin Convention Centre, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia.

Description:
The theme for the conference is Bridging Rehabilitation Gaps. There are many rehabilitation gaps in domains such as culture, ageing, technology and research. Artificial intelligence is a rapidly evolving field with the potential to leave many of us behind. This conference will explore how we can best harness our resources to optimise outcomes for our patients.

Serendipity has shone kindly upon us and we will have 3 renowned international speakers from Asia who will provide us with exciting presentations and workshops at the cutting edge of Rehabilitation.

• Professor Zaliha Omar is fondly known as the “Mother of Rehabilitation”  in Malaysia and has crossed many cultural domains as well as having special expertise in ageing. She was the sole Rehabilitation Physician in Malaysia and with vision and dedication developed a sustainable infrastructure that has since flourished.
• Professor Nam-Jong Paik comes from South Korea and is an expert in the rapidly evolving field of technology such as virtual reality and transcranial direct current stimulation and how this interfaces with Rehabilitation. He has authored over 200 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and has a special interest in neuro-rehabilitation.
• Dr Farooq Rathore has a wide breadth of expertise covering AI, research (he has more than 200 publications and is an editorial board member of several journals), disaster management and musculoskeletal medicine.

The traditional owners of the land that Darwin sits upon are the Larrakia people. Our First Nations people comprise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who occupied Australia tens of thousands  of years before European colonisation. There is an enormously rich and diverse culture which visitors to the Northern Territory will be able to experience. Unfortunately there is a large gap in health outcomes between our Caucasian population and our First Nation people and this will explored further during the conference.