April 16th, 2008

Spinal Cord Injury Interdisciplinary Research Symposium: complex problems enjoin many hands from many disciplines

When:
Monday, April 21, 2008, from 3:00 - 5:00 pm
Networking reception will follow

Where:
Alumni Hall
Spencer F. and Cleone P. Eccles Health Sciences Education Building at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center
(View map with directions)

Program:
Download a copy of the program (.pdf)

Contact:
Amanda Pompei, 801.587.1200 or brain@unite.utah.edu

Salt Lake City, Utah - The Brain Institute brings together a symposium of seven speakers who come from the wet lab, the hospital room, and other TRAILS in our community. They come with diverse skills and perspectives and one goal: to improve treatment and rehabilitation for those living with spinal cord injury. Both the conference and a reception following are free and open to the public.

The symposium’s speakers include:

• Shannon Odelberg, Ph.D.
  Spinal cord regeneration:
  If newts can do it, why can’t we?
  

• Andrew Dailey, M.D.
  Acute Care and Research

• Linda Kelley, Ph.D.
  Getting to the Clinic with Novel Cell
  Therapies for Spinal Cord Injury

• Eun-Kee Jeong, Ph.D. and Alpesh Patel, M.D.
  High-Resolution Diffusion Tensor MRI
  for Spinal Cord Injuries

• Bradley Greger, Ph. D.
  Neural Engineering:
  Devices for Bypassing Spinal Cord Injury

• Jeffrey Rosenbluth, M.D.
  TRAILS and Rehab Innovation

• Pollie Price, Ph.D.
  Life Doesn’t End at My Front Door:
  Clinical Implications of Occupational and
  Social Participation of Individuals Living With SCI