Fall is generally meeting time, and each year most of us must pick and choose where to spend our travel budgets and how best to leverage our time away from our practices and work obligations. Meetings are vital for keeping up-to-date with the rapid advances in brain injury and the developments that are shaping our growing field. On a practical level, nothing can replace the face-to-face contact that comes from attending a professional conference or seminar, but for those of you unable to attend the NABIS meeting, we hope that the abstracts presented in the following pages will at least give you a feel for our annual event. In addition to the presentation of the abstracts included in this issue, over 50 invited speakers will present the latest advances in the science, rehabilitation and treatment of traumatic brain injury. The full conference program is posted on the NABIS Web site, We hope that you will consider submitting your work for our 2009 meeting. Better yet, we hope that you will also consider becoming a member of our multidisciplinary society. Whether it is in the area of research or clinical care, NABIS stands behind the premise that advances in science and practices based on application of the scientific evidence will ultimately provide the best outcomes for those with brain injuries and the community as a whole. ObjectivesTo review issues common to case management of people with acquired brain injury (BI), both as communitybased/external case managers and as facility-based case managers. This presentation will focus on issues involving managing a treatment team, working successfully with families, providing leadership toward targeted outcomes, customer service issues for all stake holders and developing and maintaining a positive relationship with clients so that they may reach an optimal level of independence and self-worth through improved productive activity and expanded social capital. MethodThe presenters will provide demographic data, literature reviews and multiple examples of "successes" and "failures" with community reintegration of BI clients with different types of case management. This didactic presentation will allow attendees to interact and ask questions of the presenters regarding case management strategies which may be implemented to improve the client's success. ResultsAttendees will have a good understanding of how case management can improve successful outcomes for people with BI and will learn strategies that may be implemented in their practices to help better the lives of their clients with brain injury. NABIS Abstracts