Andrea Mitchell

“Neural Control of Movement in Spinal Cord Injury“…

The next Experimental Biology meeting is April 22-26, 2017 in Chicago, IL. On page 5 of the  respiration-section-newsletter-fall-2016 are trainee opportunities listed – go check them out! Please congratulate Shreya Patel (former Undergraduate student in Dr. Fuller’s lab) and Jay Nair (former PhD student in Dr. Fuller’s lab)…

Dr. Karen Hegland (right), who is currently serving a two-year term as president of the International Society for the Advancement of Respiratory Psychophysiology (ISARP), participated in the society’s 23rd annual meeting from October 7-9, in Seattle, Washington. The multidisciplinary meeting featured two distinguished keynote speakers, Dr. Jeanette Hoit from…

Drs. Fuller and Mitchell were recently invited to serve as guest editors for an issue of Experimental Neurology. The special issue focuses on an  important topic in  rehabilitation – neuroplasticity.   Specifically, this issue examined neuroplasticity in the respiratory system.   Respiratory failure is the major cause of death in clinical…

Class of 2008, Rehabilitation Science PhD program graduate, Arun Jayaraman, PT, PhD, was RSD’s recipient of the PHHP Outstanding Young Alumnus Award for 2016. Dr. Jayaraman is the Director of the Max Nadar Center for Rehabilitation Technologies & Outcome Research at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago and associate professor in…

“Can bench work help us at the bedside: Arriving at a useful measure of respiratory control“…

“Brain Circuits Controlling Respiratory Sensory-Motor Integration: Origins of Plasticity and Pathology“…

A new grant has been awarded to a multidisciplinary team of investigators from the Center for Respiratory Research and Rehabilitation. This initiative, led by Don Bolser in the College of Veterinary Medicine, provides more than $7.5 million over three years ($2,654,317 annual). The award was made as part of the…

Congratulations to Marissa Ciesla in Dr. Gordon Mitchell’s lab. Marissa’s proposal entitled “Novel Therapeutic Strategies to Enhancing Spinal Cord Repair and Recovery of Respiratory Function after Cervical Spinal Cord Injury” has been approved as one of the McKnight Brain Institute Fellowship awards as a runner-up. The total amount of the award is…

Intermittent Hypoxia workshop – July 27-29, Atlantic Beach, FL The Goal of this Workshop was to develop a strategic plan (the “Road Map”), to identify areas in need of additional work to exploit the seemingly simple, safe and effective therapeutic intervention using intermittent hypoxia. We need to know the…