Cervical Spine Research Society 40th Annual Meeting
December 6 – 8, 2012 Chicago, Illinois
The Cervical Spine Research Society is a multidisciplinary organization that provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and promotes clinical and basic science research of the cervical spine. The organization values collegial interaction and strong scientific principles.
29th International Seating Symposium
March 5 – 9, 2013
(March 5 to 6 Pre-Symposium & March 7 to 9 Main Symposium)
Nashville, Tennessee
The symposium will include scientific and clinical papers, a research forum, in-depth workshops, panel sessions, and an extensive exhibit hall. Presentations should address the seating and wheeled mobility issues of people with disabilities across the lifespan such as neuromuscular disorders, spinal cord injury and diseases of the spinal cord, orthopedic conditions, systemic conditions, obesity, or polytrauma.
2012 Annual Meeting of the Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals
September 3-5, 2012 Las Vegas, Nevada
Annual Meeting Theme: Beyond Boundaries
The 2012 Annual Meeting will focus on cutting edge and innovative strategies to promote and achieve successful outcomes following SCI/D. It is essential for the professionals working in SCI/D to stay current with recent advances and technology. This conference will provide a venue to promote optimal quality of life as it relates to SCI/D medicine and rehabilitation.
Educational topic categories include:
• Basic Science/ Bench to Bedside
• Changing demographics and etiologies in SCI
• Non-traumatic SCI/D
• SCI Across the Lifespan (Pediatrics, Veterans, Aging population)
• Participation/ Adapted Sports and Recreation
• Violence/ Abuse after Spinal Cord Injury
• Other
Target Audience
The Academy’s Annual Meeting includes healthcare professionals representing a variety of specialties involved in the management of spinal cord injury/disorder (SCI/D). Professionals attending include, but are not limited to: physicians, basic scientists and clinical researchers, physician assistants, nurses, psychologists, social workers, rehabilitation counselors, physical and occupational therapists, as well as residents, fellows, and students from various professions.
Questions/Contact information: Joan McMahon, MSA, BSN, joan.academyscipro2012@gmail.com or Amy Cheatham, MS, acheatham@firminc.com.
Cognitive Enhancers: 22nd Neuropharmacology Conference
Official Satellite to the 2012 Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience
11-12 October 2012 New Orleans, Louisiana
Cognitive enhancement has become a subject of considerable research and, both in neuroscience and society at large, growing controversy. This satellite meeting will survey progress in the field from attempts to facilitate the substrates of memory and cognition in animal models to clinical studies targeted at major psychiatric disorders. Attendees will accordingly have a first-hand opportunity to learn about the broad spectrum of enhancement research ranging from epigenetics through synaptic plasticity and brain networks to behavior. Individual sessions include both cutting edge work on currently marketed drugs and experiments using novel, mechanism-based compounds. The program will therefore be of interest to those interested in present and future therapeutic prospects for autism, age-related cognitive decline, addiction, and depression. It also directly addresses the possibility of enhancement in normal subjects, a contentious issue that affects much of the neuroscience community.
Topics List
Enhancing brain substrates of cognition:
Plasticity and memory
Cortical systems
Enhancement as a treatment for cognitive disorders:
Aging
Spine dysfunction
Experience and epigenetics
Affective disorders
Schizophrenia
Autism spectrum disorders
For queries, please contact:
Richard Hart
Email: r.hart@elsevier.com
Academy of Spinal Cord Injury Professionals, Inc. (ASCIP) 2012 Annual Conference & Expo
September 3-5, 2012 Las Vegas, Nevada.
Contact: Amy Cheatham, acheatham@firminc.com, 217-753-1190 ext:119 or Kimberly Little, klittle@firminc.com, 217-753-1190 ext:112 for more information.
International Spinal Cord Society 51st Annual Scientific Meeting ISCOS 2012
September 3-5, 2012 London, United Kingdom
The International Spinal Cord Society (ISCoS) invites clinicians, researchers, orthopaedic doctors, neurosurgeons, physical therapists, occupational therapists, nurses, clinical psychologists, social workers and all other professionals dealing with spinal cord lesions to their 2012 meeting, which will take place in London, from 3-5 September, 2012.
The ISCoS ASM is the most important International meeting of all disciplines expert in the field of spinal cord injury. The programme of 2012 will once again cover basic and advanced clinical and scientific issues, with pre-eminent speakers mixed into the programme with 'up and coming' clinicians, therapists and scientists who will lead our specialty into the future.
The programme will be interesting and varied with a focus on long-term outcomes in sci, health economics and putting evidence into practice, along with symposia, free-paper sessions and poster presentations. We anticipate an exciting meeting that promises, as usual, great debate and an enjoyable social programme.
For further information regarding the Conference please contact the Organising Secretariat as below:
Kenes UK
1st Floor, Chesterfield House,
385 Euston Road, NW1 3AU
London, UK
Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7383 8030
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7383 8040
Email: iscos@kenes.com
World Forum for Spine Research 2012: The Intervertebral Disc—from Degeneration to Pain
Helsinki, Finland June 18-21 2012
This international research forum will once again bring together clinicians and established researchers in the fields of disc biology and biomedical engineering in a unique, stimulating environment. Participants, presenters, and faculty will have the opportunity to share their knowledge on basic, translational, and clinical research in the field of intervertebral disc and back/neck pain, focusing on today's knowledge of disc degeneration biology and biomechanics and its relationship to pain. These will be further complemented by sessions covering genetics, diagnostics, and disc/pain treatment modalities.
The primary focus of this year's forum will be current understanding on various aspects of the intervertebral disc, form degeneration to pain and treatments thereof.
We have invited thirty top speakers from around the world to lecture at this event. They are chosen on the basis of their recent contribution to the field, and they represent the top 70% of all researchers on the intervertebral disc.
We anticipate some 250–300 participants from around the world, following the meeting in Montreal, where we had participants ranging from clinicians to engineers and scientists from forty different countries, making it a truly global multidisciplinary meeting!
The main contact for this event is Claudia Spinatsch— Congress Manager, AOSpine International.
Address: AOSpine International,
Stettbachstrasse 6
CH-8600 Duebendorf
Switzerland
Telephone: +41 44 200 24 25
Fax: +41 44 200 2412
Email: wfsr2012@aospine.org
International Forum on Disability Management 2012
6th International Forum on Disability Management (IFDM 2012)
10-12 September 2012 London, England, United Kingdom
In the late 1990s a group of people who were committed to the ideals of best practice in disability management met in Ottawa. From that meeting came the agreement to collaborate on an International Forum to be held every two years in major locations throughout the world, with a focus on research and practice in the field of disability management. Each meeting would attract senior political representatives, and senior executives from government, labour and industry, to speak on the achievements and challenges in that country's efforts to address these problems.
The conference aims to gather representatives and stakeholders in disability management from all over the world, to assemble global perspectives on consensus-based best practices, cutting-edge research and successful disability management policies and programs. Disability management refers to the actions of the health and rehabilitation community to restore those disabled by injury or illness, to health and productivity.
Key sessions include:
Transformation - lessons from sports medicine
The role of the State
Transforming models of disability
Work and employers issues
Disability management in practice
Howard H. Steel Conference on Pediatric Spinal Cord Injuries and Dysfunction
November 29-December 1, 2012 Lake Buena Vista, Florida
Held once every three years, the Howard H. Steel Conference provides a unique opportunity for the exchange of knowledge and dissemination or research throughout the international community that is focused on Pediatric Spinal Cord Injuries and Dysfunction.
On November 29 – December 1, 2012, the three-day conference will include a variety of educational opportunities such as paper presentations, debates, lectures, symposia and instructional course lectures. Electronic posters, standard posters and technical exhibits will also be available at the conference.
Preceding the conference on November 28, 2012 one day pre-courses will be held.
Course Office:
MCJ Consulting
2678 Bishop Drive, Suite 250
San Ramon, CA 94583
Phone: +1 (925) 807-1192
Fax: +1 (925) 807-1194
www.mcjconsulting.com
