Fall Quarter 2024: on Mondays, September 16 – December 9, 12pm – 1pm
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Seminars that are in webinar format will be shared via weekly announcement emails and calendar invitations. If you would like to be added to the distribution list (Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Northwestern University, and Affiliates only), please contact email Lauren Steiner at lsteiner@sralab.org.
October 14 -- Theresea Hayes Cruz, PhD
Director, National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research
National Institutes of Health
James A. Haley Veterans’ Hospital and Clinics
“Updates from NIH on rehabilitation and disability research”
Location: Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, 10 Floor, Autotorium ABC
October 21 -- Pablo Celnik, MD
Chief Executive Officer, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
Professor, Dept. of PM&R, Northwestern University
“Mechanisms of motor recovery after stroke”
Location: Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, 12 Floor, Autotorium IJK
October 28 -- Matthew J Major, PhD
Associate Professor, Depts. of PM&R and Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University Research Health Scientist, Jesse Brown VA Medical Center
“Framing leg prosthesis design as an optimization problem: linking mechanical function to clinical outcomes”
Location: Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, 10 Floor, Autotorium ABC
November 4 -- Christopher S. Ahuja, MD, PhD FRCSC
Neurosurgeon, Northwestern Medicine
Scientist, Simpson-Querrey Research institute
Assistant Professor, Northwestern University
Director, Spine Biomechanics and Surgical Innovation Lab, Central DuPage Hospital
“Bioengineered stem cell therapies to regenerate the injured spinal cord”
Location: Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, 12 Floor, Autotorium IJK
November 11 -- No Scheduled Seminar—Veterans Day
November 18 -- Nicholas Hatsopoulos, Ph.D.
Professor, Dept. of Organismal Biology & Anatomy, University of Chicago
Scott Imbrie
BCI Study Participant, University of Chicago
“My life as a human cyborg”
Location: Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, 12 Floor, Autotorium IJK
November 25 -- No Scheduled Seminar—Thanksgiving Holiday
December 2 -- W. David Arnold, MD
Executive Director, UM System NextGen Precision Health Initiative
Professor, Dept. of PM&R
University of Missouri
“Targeting neuromuscular excitability for age related loss of physical function”
Location: Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, 12 Floor, Autotorium IJK
December 9 -- Ronald J. Cotton, MD, PhD
Attending Physician Scientist, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
Assistant Professor, Dept. of PM&R, Northwestern University
“A causal framework for precision rehabilitation”
Location: Virtual