Monthly Rehabilitation Roundup (January 2020)

Rehabilitation Roundup for January 2020

Greetings!

Happy New Year!

This month we have Fabrisia Ambrosio from the University of Pittsburgh coming on 1/24 to kick off our unit on spinal cord injury and regenerative medicine.

We also have a host of CARE-related talks due to the faculty searches in Kinesiology and Biomedical Engineering. Lots of activity in the next month!

Best,

Linda Noble and James Sulzer

CARE Co-Directors

CARE Events

CARE Spring Seminar Series

Spinal Cord Injury

“ Rehabilitation’s Renaissance: Ushering a new era of regenerative medicine technologies ”

Fabrisia Ambrosio, PhD, MPT

Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Director, Rehabilitation of UPMC International

University of Pittsburgh

Friday, January 24th, 2020

1:00pm-2:30pm

SEA 4.244

Click here for more info on Dr. Ambrosio's talk

Click here to sign up for the post-doc/grad student lunch at noon on 1/24

CARE Research Day!

CARE's signature event will be on the afternoon of April 10th, 2020 in HDB (Dell Med School)! There will be food, scientific posters, a Keynote lecturer, all finished off with a Happy Hour!

This year, Edelle Field-Fote from Emory University / Shepard Center will complete our unit on spinal cord injury as the Keynote Lecturer

CARE-Related Events

Vikram Chib, PhD

Assistant Professor

Biomedical Engineering

Johns Hopkins University

Kennedy Krieger Institute

2/7, 11:00am, SEA 4.244

"Subjective Valuation of Effort"

Kinesiology Faculty Search Talks

1/22 1:00pm, BEL 602A: Andrew Nordin (EEG during gait)

1/28 1:00pm, BEL 546F: Deanna Gates (Prosthetics)

1/31 10:00am, BEL 602A: Sara Hussain (Upper limb motor control)

2/5 3:00pm, BEL 962: Michael Hernandez (Multiple Sclerosis)

Biomedical Engineering Faculty Search Talks (all in BME 3.204 at 3:30pm)

2/4 Helen Schwerdt (Brain-computer interface)

2/11 Tim O'Shea (Glia dysfunction)

2/18 Nathan Klapoetke (Sensorimotor control)

2/25 Sasha Cai Lester Perez (Optogenetics)

DMS Department of Neurology Grand Rounds

Time: 7:30am-8:30am; Place: UFCU Room – Dell Seton Medical Center

1500 Red River St, Austin, TX 78701

1/28: Jose del R. Millan., "Translating Brain-Computer Interfaces to Patients"

Relevant News

SAVE THE DATE!

Biophotonics in Exercise Science, Sports Medicine, Health Monitoring Technologies, and Wearables

The Moscone Center

San Francisco, California, United States

1 - 6 February 2020

Funding Opportunities-

Click on links below for more info

BRAIN Initiative: Biology and Biophysics of Neural Stimulation and Recording Technologies (R01 Clinical Trials Optional)

Department of Health and Human Services

Administration for Community Living
Field Initiated Projects Program: Minority-Serving Institution (MSI) - Development Forecast 1

Department of Health and Human Services

Administration for Community Living
Field Initiated Projects Program: Minority-Serving Institution (MSI) - Research Forecast 1

Department of Health and Human Services

Administration for Community Living
Advanced Rehabilitation Research Training (ARRT) Program - Employment Synopsis 1

Department of Health and Human Services

Administration for Community Living
Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects (DRRP) Program: Projects for Translating the Findings and Products of Disability and Rehabilitation Research and Development into Practice Forecast 1

Department of Health and Human Services

Administration for Community Living
Switzer Research Fellowships Program Forecast 1

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CARE would like to thank the Cockrell School of Engineering and the Office of the Vice President for Research for their generous support

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