Neuroprosthetics Symposium Agenda
November 3, 2010
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Campus Center, Odeum (3rd Floor)
7:30 – 8:30 am Registration
8:30 am – 1:30 pm Opening Session
Welcome and Opening Remarks
W. Grant McGimpsey, PhD, Director, Bioengineering Institute, Director, Center for Neuroprosthetics, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Introduction
Dennis Berkey, President, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Opening Remarks
Thomas G. Kelley, Secretary of Veterans’ Services, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Morning Keynote Speaker: Col. Jennifer Menetrez, MD, Physical Medince and Rehabilitation Physician, Director, Center for the Intrepid, Brooke Army Medical Center
Morning Speakers - Osseointegration
Horst Aschoff, MD, Head of the Department of Plastic, Hand and Reconstructive Surgery, SANA-Clinics in Luebeck, Germany
Gordon Blunn, PhD, Professor, John Scales Centre for Biomedical Engineering, Institute of Orthopaedics and Musculo-Skeletal Science, University College London
Roy Bloebaum, PhD, Professor, Department of Orthopaedics, Co-director, Bone and Joint Research Lab, Veterans Affairs Salt Lake City Health Care System, University of Utah
Wolfgang Plitz, MD, PhD, Former Head, Department of Biomechanics, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, Germany
12:15 pm – 12:45 pm Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:45 pm Afternoon Session
Afternoon Keynote Speaker: Kendra Calhoun, President, Amputee Coalition of America
Afternoon Speakers - Regenerative Soft Tissue
Raymond Page, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Research Associate Professor, WPI Bioengineering Institute, Chief Scientific Officer, CellThera
Christopher Lambert, PhD, Research Assistant Professor, WPI Bioengineering Institute
Stephen Lambert, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Member, UCF Hybrid Systems Laboratory, University of Central Florida
5:15 pm Plenary Session ends
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