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The Reynolds Family Spine Laboratory And The Department
Of Neurological Surgery Present One Day Symposium On:

"Current Advances In Spinal Cord Injury Research"

Featuring Leading Surgeons And Researchers From North America

Location: The 12th Avenue Pavilion ofthe New Jersey Dental School

Fifty 12th Avenue, Newark, NJ

May 9^th, 2012

From 8:00 AM until 4:30 PM

Symposium Organizers:

Robert F. Heary, MD

Stella Elkabes, PhD

Registration is FREE

Breakfast and Lunch Provided

RSVP is required: Please see attached Registration Brochure for more information.

Featured Speakers:

Michele Basso, PT, EdD

The Ohio State University

Michael V. Soforniew, MD, PhD

University of California- Los Angeles

Stella Elkabes, PhD

UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School

John W. McDonlad, MD, PhD

John Hopkins University School of Medicine

Steven Kirshblum, MD

Director of Spinal Cord Injury Program
Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation

Stephen M. Strittmatter, MD, PhD

Yale University School of Medcine

Aileen Anderson, PhD

University of California- Irvine

2011 SCI Program:

Michael G Fehlings, MD, FRCSC, PhD Professor Department of Neurosurgery University of Toronto See Doctor Profile Talk Title: "Repair and regeneration of the injured spinal cord from a translational perspective: What's hot? What's new?” (tentative)	Dana M. McTigue, PhD Associate Professor Department of Neuroscience The Ohio State University See Doctor Profile Talk Title: “Endogenous oligodendrocyte replacement in the injured adult spinal cord."	Oswald Steward, PhD Professor Department of Neurobiology and Behavior University of California, Irvine See Doctor Profile Talk Title: “Progress towards regenerating the corticospinal tract after spinal cord injury”
Langston Holly, MD Associate Professor Department of Neurosurgery University of California, Los Angeles See Doctor Profile Talk Title: “Novel insights into the pathogenesis of Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy using metabolic imaging from the spinal cord and brain.”	Alexander Rabchevsky, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Physiology University of Kentucky Spinal Cord and Brian Injury Research Center See Doctor Profile Talk Title: "Modulating the pathophysiology of autonomic dysreflexia after spinal cord injury"	Jerry Silver, PhD Professor Department of Neurosciences Case Western Reserve University See Doctor See Doctor Profile Talk Title: “Functional regeneration into and beyond the glial scar"
Itzhak Fischer, PhD Professor and Chair Department of Neurobiology & Anatomy Drexel University College of Medicine See Doctor See Doctor Profile Talk Title: “Stem Cell Therapies for Spinal Cord Injury: Advances in Cell Replacement”	Steven Kirshblum, MD Director of Spinal Cord Injury Program Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation See Doctor See Doctor Profile Talk Title: “New Rehabilitation Techniques in Spinal Cord Injury”	Claire E. Hulsebosch, Ph.D. Chair in Neurological Recovery Professor and Vice-Chair of Neuroscience and Cell Biology Department University of Texas Medical Branch See Doctor See Doctor Profile Talk Title: “Gliopathy Contributes to Persistent Inflammation and Dysfunction after CNS Trauma”