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DRS. DOMINIQUE DURAND AND HUNTER PECKHAM WILL SPEAK IN THE "MOVING AFTER PARALYSIS" SYMPOSIUM
Advances in neural technology are important biomedical issues of importance to many Americans. As part of The Race At Case, a Case All-Star Symposium will be held to review the most recent successes, continuing progress, and future directions of "Moving After Paralysis: Advances in Restoring Neural Function through Science and Enginering". The symposium will be held at 2:15 - 4:45pm October 4, 2004, in the Intercontinental Hotel on the campus of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
Dominique Durand, Case Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Director of the Neural Engineering Center, will present a seminar titled "Interfacing to the Nervous System". Hunter Peckham, Case Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Orthopaedics and Director of the Cleveland FES Center, will present "Restoration of Movement". This symposium will be moderated by William Heetderks,
M.D., Ph.D., Director of the Neural Prosthesis Program of the National Institutes of Health. Other panelists will include Robert Miller, Ph.D., Case Professor of Neurosciences; John P. Donoghue, Ph.D., Chair of the Department of Neuroscience at Brown University and founder of Cyberkinetics; and Jerrold L. Vitek, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the Program for Functional and Stereotaxic Neurology in the Department of Neurology at the Emory University School of Medicine.
This event is open to the public, there is no charge to attend and no tickets are necessary. However, registration is required. Please register using this link: http://www.case.edu/vpdebate/allstar_symposium.htm >>
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