The 2019 Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Summit, American Spinal Injury Association’s (ASIA) Annual Scientific Meeting in Waikiki, Hawaii, April 2-5, 2019, will be here before we know it! The Planning Committee for the conference is excited to announce several features in this year’s program.
The Hawaiian location offers unique excursions and experiences for attendees. The program committee has included longer breaks of 2 to 3 hours at different times each day to allow for time to be spent exploring the area and enjoying all that Waikiki has to offer!
New to the conference this year will be a State of the Science (SOS) track which will include presentations from invited lecturers, courses on trending topics with recent scientific evidence, and a Neuromodulation Symposium.
The goal of the half-day Neuromodulation Symposium is to synthesize current knowledge and gaps in knowledge related to upper extremity function, lower extremity function (including gait), autonomic function, and function modifiers (such as spasticity and rehabilitation). Invited panels of experts in these areas will be tasked with addressing questions in the field from perspectives of investigators, clinicians, funders, consumers, and industry developers. The audience will be engaged to facilitate communication between all the stakeholders, and to strategize paths forward to realize advancements in the field past proof of principle work to more widely-applied, evidenced-based, clinical application.
State of the Science (SOS) courses on Neuroimaging, Clinical Implementation, and Spinal Cord Learning are sure to be conference highlights. These courses will be taught by invited lecturers who are leaders in the field. Content for these courses are still in development, however they will include reviews of new technologies and research findings as well as discussions for best practice standards in both research and clinical practice.
For more details, visit the 2019 ASIA Scientific Meeting website.