Rehabilitation Roundup for September 2017
Greetings!

We have a busy month in September, with three relevant events that CARE is involved in. Please see below.

Our talk this month comes from Prof. Roger Gassert from ETH Zurich. The PI meeting is CPE 2.218 on Friday September 22nd at 11am with lunch. We'll then move over to CPE 2.214 for the talk at noon.
Best,

James Sulzer
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Upcoming Events
Symposium on Brain Health (9/13)
The School of Nursing and St. David's are hosting a half-day brain health symposium, consisting of talks from cellular to systems levels. The event is on 9/13 starting at 8:30 am at the Thompson Conference Center. Several CARE PIs will be giving talks.
Prof. Roger Gassert, Ph.D. (ETH Zurich), 9/22
Prof. Roger Gassert will describe his innovations in Rehabilitation Robotics and Engineering.

When: Friday, Sept, 22nd, 2017, 12pm. 
Where: CPE 2.214
Aging-in-Place Symposium (9/29)
CARE is working towards defining the future of aging. Led by Zoltan Nagy (CAEE), Li-Chen Lin (Nursing) and David Schnyer (Psychology), CARE is organizing a symposium between experts from all aspects of aging on September 29th, 2017 starting at 11am in the Thompson Conference Center. The event is hosted by the Cockrell School of Engineering.
Announcements
Multimodal Neuroimaging Initiative
If you are interested in using the newly acquired functional near infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) / EEG multimodal center, there is a new email list you can sign up for and keep in touch.
Interested in getting more involved? 
CARE members have launched several initiatives, including Multimodal Neuroimaging, Neural Interfaces and Intelligent Healthcare Facilities. If you're interested in taking part in these, please contact:

Zoltan Nagy (Intelligent Healthcare Facilities)
Chong Xie (Neural Interfaces)
Bharath Chandrasekaran (Multimodal Neuroimaging)

Want to start your own initiative? Feel free to contact me and discuss. CARE can help you launch your rehab vision!
Meet Adrienne Dula, Ph.D.
Dr. Adrienne Dula uses advanced MRI techniques to understand differences in recovery following stroke.
Meet Nicole Osier, Ph.D.,RN
Dr. Osier uses genomics to understand differences in impairments following traumatic brain injury
Meet Maya Henry, Ph.D.
Dr. Henry develops new behavioral interventions to treat Aphasia
Meet Ashish Deshpande, Ph.D.
Using robotic devices as tools for discovering novel methods for improving rehabilitation after a neurological injury. Dr. Deshpande’s group has designed state-of-the-art upper-body exoskeletons for delivering physical therapy.  
Relevant Funding Opportunities
  • Symptom Cluster Characterization in Chronic Conditions (R21) (PA-17-461) (https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-17-461.html) 
  • The FY17 Defense Appropriations Act provides $10 million (M) to the Department of Defense Orthotics and Prosthetics Outcomes Research Program (OPORP) to support research that evaluates the comparative effectiveness of orthotic and prosthetic clinical interventions using patient-centric outcomes for Service members and Veterans who have undergone limb amputation. As directed by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, the Defense Health Agency (DHA) J9, Research and Development Directorate manages the Defense Health Program (DHP) Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E) appropriation. The managing agent for the anticipated Program Announcements/Funding Opportunities is the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP). For full information and criteria please visit: http://cdmrp.army.mil/pubs/press/2017/17oporppreann 
Have news you'd like to share? Papers, funding announcements, events?
For more information, please see links belowe
CARE would like to thank the Cockrell School of Engineering for their generous support