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Description:
What prevents recovery of Spinal Cord Injury (SCI)? Hear a general overview of SCI as well as personal accounts of spinal cord injury, followed by an examination of SCI recovery obstacles. Dr. Michael Fehlings, professor of neurosurgery at the University of Toronto and medical director of the Krembil Neuroscience Center in Toronto, provides an insightful overview of regeneration obstacles to SCI recovery. One of the biggest areas of controversy lies in the applicability of animal research to the actual human clinical reality, termed “translational research.” Such application of animal research results to their human counterparts can provide false hope. A clinical SCI researcher also reviews the results of translational research into SCI care.
Speaker(s):
Randall Chesnut, M.D., F.A.C.S., associate professor of neurological surgery, Harborview Medical Center, Seattle
Jens Chapman, M.D., professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine, joint professor of Neurological Surgery, HansJoerg Wyss Endowed Chair of Spine Surgery, UW School of Medicine, Harborview Medical Center and UW Medical Center
Stanley Herring, MD, medical director, Spine Care; clinical professor, Rehabilitation Medicine, Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine and Neurological Surgery, University of Washington School of Medicine; co-medical director, Seattle Sports Concussion Program
Michael Fehlings, M.D., PhD, FRCSC, professor, Neurosurgery; Krembil chair, Neural Repair and Regeneration; McLaughlin scholar, Molecular Medicine, University of Toronto; medical director, Krembil Neuroscience Center, Head Spine and Spinal Cord Injury Program, Toronto Western Hospital, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario
Ernie Franz, M.D. FACEP, volunteer faculty, Emergency Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Bainbridge Island, WA
Brian K. Kwon, M.D., PhD, FRCSC, scholar, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research; assistant professor, Department of Orthopaedics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia
Jim Osborne, director, REI, Kent, Washington
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