2015 ASNR Handouts

Thursday, October 15, 2015

 

Time Topic
8:00 am – 8:30 am

Introduction and Presidential Oration                                    
George Wittenberg, MD, PhD, FASNR

8:30 am – 10:00 am

Symposium #1:
The Uninjured Hemisphere in Hemiplegia: Friend or Foe?
Organized by Jason Carmel, MD, PhD
Speakers:
Lara Boyd, PT, PhD
Winston Byblow, PhD
Jason Carmel, MD, PhD
Leonardo Cohen, MD

12:00 pm – 12:30 pm

ONCS Award Presentation and Lecture
Presented by the 2015 Award Recipient Maurizio Corbetta, MD

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Symposium #2:
Aerobic Exercise Effects on Neuroplasticity: From Neurobiology to Behavior
Organized by Cameron Mang, MSc
Speakers:
Jesper Lundbye-Jensen, MSc, PhD
Cameron Mang, MSc
Michelle Ploughman, PT, PhD

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Viste Award Presentation and Lecture
Presented by the 2015 Award Recipient Mindy Aisen, MD

3:45 pm – 5:15 pm

Symposium #3:
Axonal Sprouting and Growth after Neural Injury     
ASNR Foundation thanks the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation
for their generous support of this Symposium

Organized by S. Thomas Carmichael, MD, PhD
Speakers: 
Larry Benowitz, PhD
S. Thomas Carmichael, MD, PhD
Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert, PhD
Keith Tansey, MD, PhD

 

 Friday, October 16, 2015

Time Topic
8:00 am – 10:00 am

Symposium #4:
ASNR/TCMC Session: Applied patient-based motor session
Organized by S. Thomas Carmichael, MD, PhD & John Krakauer, MD   

Featured Speakers:
Bence Olveczky, PhD
Laurel Buxbaum, PsyD 

12:00 pm – 7:00 pm

TCMC Session 
Organized by Maurice Smith, MD, PhD    
Featured Speakers: 
Jose Carmena, PhD
Joern Diedrichsen, PhD

2:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Symposium #5:
Novel Applications of FDA Approved Drugs in Neurologic Rehabilitation
ASNR Foundation thanks the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation
for their generous support of this Symposium

Organized by William Zev Rymer, MD, PhD & Rajiv Ratan, MD, PhD
Speakers:
Sunghee Cho, PhD
Monica Gorassini, PhD
T. George Hornby, PhD, PT
Rajiv Ratan, MD, PhD
Milap Sandhu, PT, PhD