Research Seminar Series

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Seminars that are in webinar format will be shared via weekly announcement emails and calendar invitations. If you would like to be added to the distribution list (Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, Northwestern University, and Affiliates only), please contact Miranda Nwakah mnwakah@sralab.org.

Sept. 14 -- Nicholas M. Boulis, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Neurosurgery, Emory University
"Efforts to Develop Surgical Approaches to ALS"
Location: Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, 10th Floor, Auditorium ABC

Sept. 21 -- Richard L. Lieber, PhD, MBA
Chief Scientific Officer and Senior Vice President of Research, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
"Intraoperative and Laboratory Studies of Human Muscle Contracture"
Location: Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, 10th Floor, Auditorium ABC

Sept. 28 -- Jacqueline Kish, PhD, OTR/L
Research Scientist, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
"Promoting Participation Across Environments: Insights from Air Travel Research"
Location: Virtual

Oct. 5 -- Mohammad Hosseini, MA, PhD
Assistant Professor, Preventive Medicine (Biostatistics and Informatics), Northwestern University
"Ethics of Using AI in Medical Research"
Location: Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, 10th Floor, Auditorium ABC

Oct. 14 -- Joint Clinical Grand Rounds and Research Seminar (Wednesday) -- David C. Morgenroth, MD
Professor & Vice Chair for Research, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Washington
"Limb Loss Rehabilitation and a Novel Patient-Centered Approach to Improving Prosthesis Prescription"
Location: Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, 10th Floor, Auditorium ABC

Oct. 19 -- Kacey G. Marra, PhD
Professor & Vice Chair of Research, Departments of Plastic Surgery and Bioengineering, University of Pittsburgh
"Bridging the Gap: The Engineering and Politics of Translating Nerve Guides to the Clinic"
Location: Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, 10th Floor, Auditorium ABC

Oct. 26 -- William E. Kraus, MD
Distinguished Professor, Department of Medicine, Duke University
"Drug Repurposing to Mimic the Effects of Exercise Training for Targeted Health Effects"
Location: Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, 10th Floor, Auditorium ABC

Nov. 2 -- Leah J. Welty, PhD
Director, Biostatistics Collaboration Center & Professor, Departments of Preventive Medicine (Biostatistics and Informatics), Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University
"Advancing Rigor and Reproducibility in Collaborative Team Science: A Biostatistics Perspective"
Location: Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, 10th Floor, Auditorium ABC

Nov. 9 -- Jordan Grafman, PhD & Shira Cohen-Zimerman, PhD
Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
"The Behavioral Correlates and Neural Underpinnings of Happiness Following Traumatic Brain Injury & The Representation of Miracles in the Human Brain"
Location: Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, 10th Floor, Auditorium ABC

Nov. 16 -- No Scheduled Seminar — Society for Neuroscience Meeting, Washington, D.C.

Nov. 23 -- No Scheduled Seminar — Thanksgiving Holiday

Nov. 30 -- Kay F. McLeod, PhD
Professor & Vice-Chair, The Ben May Department for Cancer Research; Hospira Foundation Professor
Location: Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, 10th Floor, Auditorium ABC

Dec. 7 -- Ronald James Cotton, MD, PhD
Physician Scientist, Shirley Ryan AbilityLab
"How AI Can Accelerate Your Research Program"
Location: Shirley Ryan AbilityLab, 10th Floor, Auditorium ABC