Two of us: Bruce & Anita Powell
November 4, 2022
‘I catapulted into the sign head-first’: How a brain injury redefined a marriage
Professor Bruce Powell, 56, a retired anaesthetist and former director of Western Australia’s organ-donation program, proposed to his wife Anita, 55, on a dance floor 28 years ago. A serious brain injury in 2018 redefined their relationship.

May 28, 2025
Voted the Best Poster at the World Congress on Brain Injury in Montreal. What a journey, halfway across the world to offer my poster to the World Congress and what a pleasure to be voted the winner. The conference itself was worth the trip and I look forward to maybe contributing more when the next event occurs in Valencia, Spain 2027. A massive thanks to the organising committee and all the fascianting, driven, passionate clinicians I met there. Bruce.