Scientific committee update
The ISRRA Scientific Committee has begun to form, and we’re pleased to announce our leadership team in this newsletter. Many of them will be known to you, but we’ve asked them to share a bit about themselves in this newsletter. Adding to this group will be a number of Emerging Leaders and we’ll introduce them to you as they join. The Scientific Committee will have a major role in establishing strategic research priorities and mechanisms for growing our collective impact in stroke recovery and rehabilitation. We are thrilled to have such capable group of people with a wide range of skills coming together to support and advance the vision of ISRRA.
Emerging leaders
Another priority since ISRRA was conceived is the support and development of the next generation of researchers and clinicians. We need the best and brightest minds working on the many challenges facing stroke recovery science and clinical practice. We’re pleased to announce that our Emerging Leader working group has begun the work of identifying the best ways for ISRRA to support this next generation. While we plan to start small, you’ll be hearing more about this working group in coming months. More about this below.
We are meeting face to face at ESOC (May 4th)!!!
Lastly, we are excited to announce that a few of our executive members are organizing a social face to face meeting for those of you attending the European Stroke Organization Conference (ESOC) in Lyon France (May 4th– May 6th). If you would like to attend this social gathering please RSVP below.
Julie Bernhardt
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 Introducing the ISRRA Scientific Committee
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Tom Carmichael (USA)
S. Thomas Carmichael is a neurologist and neuroscientist in the Departments of Neurology and of Neurobiology at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He has active laboratory and clinical interests in stroke and neurorehabilitation and how the brain repairs from injury. He received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from Washington University School of Medicine in 1993 and 1994, and completed a Neurology residency at Washington University School of Medicine, serving as Chief Resident. Dr. Carmichael was a Howard Hughes Medical Institute postdoctoral fellow at UCLA from 1998-2001. He has been on the UCLA faculty since 2001. Dr. Carmichael’s laboratory studies the molecular and cellular mechanisms of neural repair after stroke and other forms of brain injury.
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Tash Lannin (Australia)
Professor Natasha Lannin is based at Monash University in the Department of Neuroscience (Medicine) in a joint appointment with The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, Australia. She is an occupational therapist by professional background, and a Fellow of the American Occupational Therapy Foundation Academy of Research and the Occupational Therapy Australia Research Academy. She leads the Brain Recovery and Rehabilitation Research Group, and their research focuses on improving long-term outcomes for adults after neurological damage, in particular from stroke.
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Gert Kwakkel (The Netherlands)
Gert Kwakkel is professor at the Amsterdam University Medical Centre in the Netherlands. His chair is dedicated to translational research in the field of neurorehabilitation with a special focus on the longitudinal relationship between brain plasticity and neuronal recovery post stroke. He published about 300 papers with more than 19.000 citations in the field of stroke rehabilitation. In 2018, he received an honorary fellowship from the Associated Physiotherapists in Neurology (ACPIN) in the United Kingdom and the Outstanding Neurorehabilitation Clinician Scientists (ONCS) award from the American Society of Neurorehabilitation. Finally, he is member of the editorial board of Stroke and European editor of Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair.
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Nick Ward (United Kingdom)
Nick Ward is a Professor of Clinical Neurology & Neurorehabilitation at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology and The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square. He is lead of the first dedicated upper limb neurorehabilitation programme in the UK. His work seeks to understand the mechanisms of recovery of movement after stroke so that we might predict both optimal treatments and long term outcomes of upper limb impairment after stroke. He is Co-editor of the Oxford Textbook of Neurorehabilitation, Deputy Editor of the Journal for Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry and Associate Editor of Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair.
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Suresh Kumar (India)
Dr Sureshkumar is Associate professor for the Public Health Foundation of India and Northumbria University with academic research expertise in the areas of Occupational therapy, Public Health Disability, and Epidemiology. He is also a member of the Global Consortium for Stroke Rehabilitation (GCSR) in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs) for ISRRA; the Centre for Comprehensive Stroke Rehabilitation and Research (CCSRR) at the Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE), India; and the research task force of the Indian Federation of Neurorehabilitation (IFNR). He co-directs a Cochrane affiliate in India and advises disability initiatives of the government in two south Indian states. Dr Sureshkumar is passionate about strengthening health systems to achieve UHC for stroke care, particularly in LMICs: "developing complex interventions for stroke rehabilitation and recovery is my strategy to achieve this passion"
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Margit Alt Murphy (Sweden)
Margit Alt Murphy is Associate Professor at University of Gothenburg and Senior University Hospital Specialist Physiotherapist at Sahlgrenska University Hospital. Margit is a leading researcher in the field of stroke rehabilitation and upper extremity assessment including kinematic movement analysis and rehabilitation. She has over 50 publications and has received several awards for her research.Fellow of European Stroke Organization and Neurorehabilitation Committee, core-group of the SRRR for movement quality and member of ISRRA. She is external reviewer for international and European grants including current WHO Guidelines for Rehabilitation and co-chair for ESO Guidelines for Motor/gait rehabilitation and collaborates with technology developers. Chair of the Neurology section of Swedish Physiotherapist and member of research subgroup of INPA.
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Mindy Levin (Canada)
Dr. Levin, physiotherapist (McGill University), obtained a M.Sc. in Clinical Sciences (University of Montreal 1985) and a Ph.D. in Physiology (McGill 1990). Since 1992, Dr. Levin has been a researcher and professor in the School of Rehabilitation at the University of Montreal (SPOT, 1992-2004) and at the School of Physical and Occupational Therapy at McGill University (since 2004). She was Research Director of the Rehabilitation Institute of Montreal (1997-2001) and Physical Therapy Program Director at SPOT (2004-2008). She was Research Scholar of the Quebec Health Research Fund (1992-2004) and held a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Motor Recovery and Rehabilitation (2005-2019). She is currently a Distinguished James McGill Professor. She is currently the President of the International Society of Motor Control (2018-2022) and is a Past-President of the International Society for Virtual Rehabilitation (2015-2017). She is also currently a Board member of the International Neurological Physiotherapy Association of WCPT. She is editor of the journal “Motor Control”. Dr. Levin has over 170 peer-reviewed publications. Her research focuses on elucidating mechanisms underlying sensorimotor deficits and their recovery in patients with CNS lesions. Amongst her research methodologies are new technologies such as virtual reality and robotics.
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Current ISRRA membership
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ISRRA Emerging Leaders (ISRRA-EL) Working Group
In the next 4-5 weeks, the ISRRA executive will be looking for emerging leaders to work closely together on three work packages proposed by three ISRRA EL start-up representatives: Rachel Stockley (UK), Juan Pablo Saa (Australia), and Anna Bonkhoff (USA). These packages will be necessary to complete prior to formally launching the Emerging Leaders as a working group: |
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1. Vision – Development of a clear vision for the ISRRA-EL group that directly complements the goals, mission and purpose of ISRRA. This will include an attempt to refine and operationalise a broad, inclusive definition of an ‘emerging leader’ which promotes gender, age, professional and geographic diversity and development of Terms of Reference for the Emerging Leaders group. These terms will consider length of membership of the group and key roles needed within the group.
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2. Key needs – Prioritisation of a small number of initial key needs/wants of emerging leaders and plans for how these needs can be met. These may include support that could be offered by the ISRRA executive/other senior ISRRA members (e.g. mentorship for career progression), and/or needs that could be met within the ISRRA-EL group. The focus will be on providing a distinct offering to that provided elsewhere (e.g. WSO) which draws on the collaborative and innovative nature of ISRRA.
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3. Communication – Identification of strategies/channels of communication so that the ISRRA-EL group becomes a vibrant, interactive and representative group of emerging leaders in stroke recovery research. This would also include how the network is advertised to potential members, how members are recruited (e.g. annual calls or open call), contributing to ISRRA communications, creating website content, involvement in annual ISRRA meetings and identifying future events (e.g. conferences) where ISRRA-EL members group could meet and network.
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 It's time to meet face to face
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Attention! those attending
ESOC 2022 in Lyon France (May 4-6, 2022)
 We are having a social meeting
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When?
Wednesday May 4th at 18.30 CEST
At the European Stroke Organisation Conference – after the Scientific Session 11 on ISSRA
Where?
Exhibition hall
More details to be announced
But in the meantime. If you would like to be included in our plans and meet other ISRRA members (including two of our executive members) please RSVP below
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